Building resilience in teacher education: an evidenced informed framework

Authors

Caroline Mansfield, Murdoch UniversityFollow
Susan Beltman, Curtin UniversityFollow
Tania Broadley, Curtin UniversityFollow
Noelene L. Weatherby-Fell, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

105142

Publication Details

Mansfield, C. F., Beltman, S., Broadley, T. & Weatherby-Fell, N. (2016). Building resilience in teacher education: an evidenced informed framework. Teaching and Teacher Education, 54 77-87.

Abstract

This paper proposes a framework for building resilience in teacher education. The framework is informed by a focused review of relevant literature to determine factors that may be addressed in teacher education to support teacher resilience and ways in which this may occur. Findings show that personal and contextual resources along with use of particular strategies all contribute to resilience outcomes and that many of these can be developed in teacher education. Using these findings, a comprehensive resilience framework is proposed with five overarching themes - understanding resilience, relationships, wellbeing, motivation and emotions. Implementation possibilities are discussed.