1st Edition
Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities Exploring Diverse Contexts, Circumstances and Populations
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.
1. Resilience and Children: Introducing concepts, notions, and tensions
Wilma Robles-Melendez, Zoi Nikiforidou and Babs Anderson
2. Resilience and Well-being at Children: A Meta-Synthesis
Esra Akgül, Dila Nur Yazici
3. Risk, Rights, Responsibilities and Resilience: Considering practical ways of supporting children’s resilience
Samantha Hoyes
4. “The children are grand!” Educators’ perspectives on educator and child wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Maja Haals Brosnan, Rhona Stallard and Natasha O’Donnell
5. How to create a more open listening climate in early years settings: A multi-professional perspective when supporting children’s wellbeing
Alison Moore
6. Resilience and children with disabilities: the role of positive relationships and friendships
Kyriakos Demetriou
7. The Compassion-Resilience Connection: Their place in early childhood education in a global arena
Harriet Broadfoot
8. Towards a pedagogy of hope: Creating a listening culture for nurturing children’s wellbeing
Naomi McLeod, Diane Boyd, Catriona Luz Aniere and Suzanne Axelsson
9. Play in the Education and Care of Young Autistic Children
Jenny Louise Gibson, Sinéad Máire McNally
10. Holistic Education as Support for Wellbeing and Resilience
Tansy Watts
11. Building a Circle of Caring Support for Our Children with Diverse Roots: Nurturing Young Children’s Resiliency
Wilma Robles-Melendez, Berta Capo, and Eric G. Robles
12. A system in ‘fight mode’? - resilience and social capital in a community emerging from conflict
Clionagh Boyle
13. Reflecting on what we know and beyond
Zoi Nikiforidou, Wilma Robles-Melendez, Babs Anderson
Biography
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.
