Takes a Village: how Chinese teachers build the environments and relationships that foster resiliency in their students

The purpose of this study to investigate how Chinese teachers build a sense of resiliency, flexibility and self-driven learning in students who lack those skills and characteristics. These strategies will be studied through a combination of observation, individual interview, and focus group interviews with Chinese teachers, teacher candidates, students and Canadian teacher candidates. The expected outcome of this research is the identification of the tools and strategies that Canadian teachers can modify and apply in their classrooms to help students acquire the characteristics of resilient learners, which will hopefully lead them on to successful lives.

Faculty Supervisor:

Shijing Xu

Student:

Partner:

Southwest University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

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