Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, circumstances, populations and life stories in order to explore its complexity globally.
Current societal events have brought forward a need for understanding how to best support and create environments with conditions that promote children’s holistic wellbeing. Violence in all its facets, poverty, political conflict and the recent pandemic are among the major realities threatening children, and this demands attention to how resilience can be supported to effectively safeguard children’s lived experiences. This book explores resilience from a range of perspectives, research projects and practical support mechanisms for young children, families, educators and communities. It starts with theoretical conceptualizations and goes on to present specific research projects and applied initiatives and how these can be used in application to praxis for young children and their families.
Being of interest to educators and human services striving to advocate for and enhance young children’s wellbeing, this book will serve as both a useful overview of the many approaches to supporting resilience in young children, while providing a sound theoretical perspective that is accessible for all.
Edited by:
Zoi Nikiforidou,
Babs Anderson (Liverpool Hope University,
UK.),
Wilma Robles-Melendez (Nova Southeastern University,
Florida,
USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032385709
ISBN 10: 1032385707
Series: Towards an Ethical Praxis in Early Childhood
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 26 April 2024
Audience:
Adult education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Adult education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Resilience and Children: Introducing Concepts, Notions, and Tensions 2. Resilience and Wellbeing at Children: A Meta-Synthesis 3. Risk, Rights, Responsibilities and Resilience: Considering Practical Ways of Supporting Children’s Resilience 4. “The Children Are Grand!” - Educators’ Perspectives on Educator and Child Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic 5. How to Create a More Open Listening Climate in Early Years Settings: A Multi-Professional Perspective When Supporting Children’s Wellbeing 6. Resilience and Children With Disabilities: The Role of Positive Relationships and Friendships 7. The Compassion-Resilience Connection: Their place in early childhood education in a global arena 8. Towards a pedagogy of hope: Creating a listening culture for nurturing children’s wellbeing 9. Play in the Education and Care of Young Autistic Children 10. Holistic Education as Support for Wellbeing and Resilience 11. Building a Circle of Caring Support for Our Children with Diverse Roots: Nurturing Young Children’s Resiliency 12. A system in ‘fight mode’? - resilience and social capital in a community emerging from conflict 13. Reflecting on what we know and beyond
Zoi Nikiforidou is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Pedagogy at the University of Ioannina, Greece. Babs Anderson retired as Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Wilma Robles-Melendez is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice of Nova Southeastern University, USA.
