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Educational Resiliency »

Authors: Hersh C. Waxman (Editor), Jon Gray (Editor), Yolanda N. Padraon
ISBN-13: 9781931576093, ISBN-10: 1931576092
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Pt. I	Issues and reviews of research
1	Introduction and overview	3
2	Resilience : emerging social constructions in educational policy, research, and practice	11
3	Promoting educational resilience for students at-risk of failure	37
4	Resilience research and practice : national resilience resource center bridging the gap	63
Pt. II	Studies of students' resiliency
5	A longitudinal look at the literacy development of children prenatally exposed to crack/cocaine	87
6	Achieving success : an agentic model of resiliency	113
7	Mathematics learning environment differences between resilient, average, and nonresilient elementary students	137
8	The student-teacher axis : idiosyncratic credit and cutting the slack	157
9	The relations of teacher education students' resiliency, work motivation, and school-level resilience	175
Pt. III	Schools, programs, and communities that enhance resiliency
10	Presenting a resilience paradigm for teachers	189
11	Developing resilient learning communities to close the achievement gap	205
12	Resilient communities : the interplay between community development and child development through effective school reform	227
13	Promoting resiliency in youth, educators, and communities	247
14	Future directions for educational resiliency research	263
	Contributing authors	275