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Try it! Applying the Concept of Resilience to Adult Education
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This session will discuss the importance of the research about resilience in healthy adults and how to apply the concept of resilience in adult education.
Target Audience
The primary audience for this session is current and future educators involved with adult learners. This session will provide insight about the dynamics of adversities and the positive adaptation in adult learners at various life stages. The session will also explore ways to apply the concept of resilience to support adult learners. A secondary audience would be those in human resource management, adult education administration and policy making. Researchers and students of Adult Education will hopefully be inspired to further the study of resilience in adults as there is a lack of substantial research in this area.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will gain insights about the concept of resilience, and the dynamic interplay of risk factors and positive adaptation of adult learners at various stages of life. They will be able to demonstrate the various ways to evaluate and support adult learners toward great success. Participants will also learn the potential avenues of research in the field of resilience and adult learners. To date, the study of resilience has primarily focused on children and adolescents. There is a lack of research into the resilience of adult learners.
Session Description
Adult learners continued to be a major force in education due to changing economic climate, domestically and globally. Understanding adversities and positive adaptation of adult learners at various stages of life and timeliness of support are essential for their mental health and student retention. This session will review the origins of the study of resilience and explore the ways researchers and practitioners can adopt this concept of resilience to adult learners with a theoretical framework of adult development. Future research recommendations will be presented.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Eunkyung Na, University of South Florida
Work Title
Research Assistant