Table of Contents

Contents: M.C. Wang, E.W. Gordon, Preface. Part I:Understanding Resilience.A.S. Masten, Resilience in Individual Development: Successful Adaptation Despite Risk and Adversity. E.W. Gordon, L.D. Song, Variations in the Experience of Resilience. M.C. Wang, G.D. Haertel, H.J. Walberg, Educational Resilience in Inner Cities. S.S. Peng, Understanding Resilient Students: The Use of National Longitudinal Databases. L.C. Rigsby, The Americanization of Resilience: Deconstructing Research Practice. Part II:Research on Resilience: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations.D.W. Bartelt, On Resilience: Questions of Validity. J. McCord, Resilience as a Dispositional Quality: Some Methodological Points. R.D. Taylor, Risk and Resilience: Contextual Influences on the Development of African-American Adolescents. M.C. Reynolds, Special Education as a Resilience-Related Venture. Part III:Fostering Educational Resilience.L. Anderson, Effectiveness and Efficiency in Inner-City Public Schools: Charting School Resilience. H.J. Freiberg, Understanding Resilience: Implications for Inner-City Schools and Their Near and Far Communities. H.A. Liddle, Contextualizing Resiliency. D. Oxley, Organizing for Responsiveness: The Heterogeneous School Community. E.W. Gordon, M.C. Wang, Epilogue: Educational Resilience -- Challenges and Prospects.

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Margaret C Wang, Edmund W. Gordon

Reviews

"...effectively draws insight from the theoretical and empirical research base of psychological resilience and applies the practical implications of this work to education in inner-city schools and communities....As such, this book addresses a domain of significant interest to school psychologists as well as educators and other mental health professionals. We highly recommend this noteworthy contribution for its coverage of a timely and critical issue."
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