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ERIC Number: EJ1230406
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-1366
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Resisting Resilience: Disrupting Discourses of Self-Efficacy
Webster, David; Rivers, Nicola
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v27 n4 p523-535 2019
This paper addresses the turn towards discourses of resilience within Higher Education, and its shared conceptual space with notions of 'grit' or the promotion of a Growth Mindset. Of particular concern is how these discourses reinforce simplistic conceptualizations of students as 'millennial snowflakes' in need of 'toughening up'. Whilst acknowledging the realities of student anxiety, and engaging with the precarity of employment within the sector, we contend that discourses of resilience threaten to mask systemic issues in favour of promoting individual change. By interrogating these seemingly benign discourses we seek to highlight the neoliberal underpinnings of narratives of resilience.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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