‘Teaching’ Resilience: Systems, Pedagogies and Programmes

Middleton, Tristan; Millican, Richard

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49236-6_5

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“…To encourage the development of resilience, instructors can also offer opportunities for students to engage in higher order thinking challenges that are coupled with student choice or grading flexibility [37]. Such an approach creates a more manageable level of challenge for students [38]. Finally, encouraging metacognitive processing can help students learn from failures and modify their study habits to optimize learning.…”

Section: Reducing the Stigma Of Failure Within The Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

Science students' perspectives on how to decrease the stigma of failure

Nunes

Philip

et al. 2021

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Failure is hard‐wired into the scientific method and yet teaching students to productively engage with failure is not foundational in most biology curricula. To train successful scientists, it is imperative that we teach undergraduate science students to be less fearful of failure and to instead positively accept it as a productive part of the scientific process. In this article, we focus on student perceptions of the stigma of failure and their associated concerns to explore how failure could be better supported within and beyond a university context. Through a survey of first‐year biology students, we found that societal and familial pressures to succeed were the greatest contributing factors to students' fear of failure. In student suggestions on how to reduce the stigma of failure within and beyond the university context, the most common theme identified across both contexts was for increased discussion and open communication about experiences of failure. Importantly, student comments in this study bring attention to the role of factors beyond the classroom in shaping student experiences of failure within their biology courses.

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Section: Reducing the Stigma Of Failure Within The Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%