ED2095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Doughnut
Inclusive Education - Week 5 - Lecture 5
Resilience, Risk Taking and Perseverance
DefinitionsTaking Risks
- Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of
certainty or a fear of failure
Resilience
- The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune.
Perseverance
- Persisting in or remaining constant to a purpose, idea or task in spite of obstacles.
Risk Taking
- You are taking a risk when there is uncertainty about what will happen as a result of your behaviour.
- There are both positive and negative results of risk-taking
- “Without risk-taking we do not reach our full potential” (Greenfield, 2004, p.1)
- Students need to engage in some risky behaviour to foster development.
- Negative consequences include injury and isolation
Promoting Positive Risk-taking
- Teachers can promote positive educational experiences by examining:
the types of activities provided
The way in which children engage in the classroom
The support they receive from the teacher
- Providing sufficiently stimulating and challenging activities will allow children to undertake positive risk-
taking experiences.
Factors Affecting Risk-Taking
- Age
Younger children slower to judge a risky situation
- Gender
Boys perception of risk is lower than that of girls
- Socialisation
People respond differently to boys and girls taking risks
- Temperament
Whether a child approaches or withdraws from challenging situations
Resilience
- Children with a resilient mindset view the world in an optimistic and hopeful way.
- They feel special and appreciated in the eyes of significant others.
- Resilient children are more likely to view mistakes, hardships, and obstacles as challenges to confront
rather than as stressors to avoid
Characteristics of a Resilient Person
- Engage in service activities for others
- Exhibit good decision-making, assertiveness, problem-solving, and self-management
- Establish friendships and positive relationships
- Show a sense of humour
- Feel in control of themselves
- Show independent thinking and behaviour
- Establish a positive view of personal future
- Show flexibility in challenging situations
- Can generalise learned information or skills to other situations
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Document Summary
Inclusive education - week 5 - lecture 5. Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune. Persisting in or remaining constant to a purpose, idea or task in spite of obstacles. You are taking a risk when there is uncertainty about what will happen as a result of your behaviour. There are both positive and negative results of risk-taking. Without risk-taking we do not reach our full potential (greenfield, 2004, p. 1) Students need to engage in some risky behaviour to foster development. Teachers can promote positive educational experiences by examining: the types of activities provided. The way in which children engage in the classroom. Providing sufficiently stimulating and challenging activities will allow children to undertake positive risk- taking experiences. Boys perception of risk is lower than that of girls.
