Promoting Resilience in Higher Education
What are we discovering?
How did career changers define resilience?
In defining resilience, the preservice teachers identified:
- Having the mental and emotional strength to be able to bounce back;
- Keeping balanced mentally and emotionally in the face of adversity;
- Having strategies to keep going and to rise above challenges;
- Having positive emotions;
- Being brave enough to take risks;
- Having the mental capacity to know that there are things you cannot change and things you can change;
- Having a balanced lifestyle.