Resilience in learning systems: case studies in university education

Stewardship, learning, and memory in disaster resilience

“…The self-organized stewardship communities of practice described here may provide a context for engaging young people in learning through informal participation and more formal environmental education programs (Krasny and Roth 2010;Krasny and Tidball 2009b;Sriskandarajah et al 2010), and thus help to transmit memories of greening as a source of healing, which in turn become a mechanism for conferring SES resilience. Although largely absent from the literature on individual-level resilience in children (see, e.g., Clauss-Ehlers and Weist 2004;Waller 2001), evidence from studies reviewed by Louv (2006) suggests that opportunities for children to engage in nature stewardship alongside more experienced adults could promote both children's and adult's emotional well-being as well as environmental learning and stewardship.…”

Educating for resilience in the North: building a toolbox for teachers

“…A growing body of literature explores the way that learning in informal education settings such as youth camps, community groups, and urban gardens can build attributes of resilient social-ecological systems such as social capital, improved ecosystem services, sense of place, and learning through experience (Fazey et al 2007, Krasny and Tidball 2009a, Tidball and Krasny 2010, Kudryavtsev et al 2012a. Far less has been done to investigate the strategies or teaching tools available to compulsory school teachers to help foster these resilience-building outcomes (but see Sriskandarajah et al 2010). In a recent special feature of Ecology and Society, formal schooling attainment was linked in numerous studies to decreases in disaster vulnerability and enhanced resilience (reviewed in Muttarak and Lutz 2014).…”

The New Vocabulary of Resilience and the Governance of University Student Life

“…There is debate concerning the precise meaning and definition of resilience, but much of the current literature on resilience primarily tends to converge on positive adaptation despite adversity (Bottrell, 2009;Cassen, Feinstein & Graham, 2008;Goodley, 2005;Mohaupt, 2008;Seligman, 2011;Sriskandarajah, Bawden, Blackmore, Tidball, & Wals, 2010). P.A.…”