Positive schooling and resilience

Pages:311-316
Shweta Singh (Department of Applied Psychology, V.B.S. Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh)

Schools play an increasingly important role in assisting youth to develop cognitive, social and emotional skills. Twenty first century schooling has been conceptualized in many different ways and has multiple components to it including an emphasis on the role of technology in changing education, new pedagogies, inter-displinary curriculum, open learning spaces and reformed teacher training. However, a core proponent of all conceptualizations of twenty first century schooling is the need for education to develop the whole-student through social, emotional, moral and intellectual development. In Positive schooling teachers use techniques that focus on the well-being of individual students. The goal of positive schooling is to turn all students into teachers who will pass down their wisdom and knowledge to others and teachers who will continue the ways of positive education. The major components of positive schooling are caring, trust, respect for diversity, goals, plans, motivation, hope and societal contributions. These are learnt by different life skills. Resilience is one of them. Resilience is the process of coping with disruptive, stressful or challenging life events. In other words, resilience is the capacity to bounce back, to withstand hardship and to repair yourself. This article is going to be explaining that how by this skill; children can gain the confidence to deal with challenges throughout their lives.