Open AccessReflections on Resilience. A Teacher’s Professional Learning Journey
Author(s) -
Marianna Fokaidou,
Pavlina Hadjitheodoulou Loizidou
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of curriculum and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-2685
pISSN - 1927-2677
DOI - 10.5430/jct.v8n3p171
Subject(s) - facilitator , psychology , psychological resilience , resistance (ecology) , resilience (materials science) , mathematics education , pedagogy , exploratory research , professional development , sociology , social psychology , ecology , physics , anthropology , biology , thermodynamics
The purpose of this study is to describe and reflect on the route a teacher followed to implement an inquiry-basedprofessional learning cycle in her everyday practice and form a conceptual framework for teacher professionallearning on resilience. The teacher acted as a researcher and worked with a facilitator to explore the experience ofthree twelve-year-old migrant students with high learning performance in an urban school in Cyprus. Diverse aspectsconsidered as important determinants for their educational success and resiliency were explored through case studyresearch. The data were analysed and three main categories related to resilience were formed: emotional resistance,development of responsibility and sense of belonging. The main findings of the exploratory study were used as thecornerstone for school-based teacher professional learning focusing on methods, approaches and aspects that couldbe applied in order to strengthen all students and enhance positive impact on students’ achievement.