Centre for the Study of Resilience academics and Educational Psychology students present symposium at the University of Pretoria Research Indaba

Posted on October 03, 2018

On 3 October 2018, the University of Pretoria hosted a Research Indaba titled: Quality Education research for sustainable development. Academics associated with the Centre for the Study of Resilience and Educational Psychology post-graduate students were invited to present a plenary symposium at the Research Indaba. This provided a perfect avenue to share the research findings from a 2017 study, namely ‘the Patterns of resilience among young people in a community affected by drought: Historical and contextual perspectives’. This co-productive study was conducted in Leandra (Mpumalanga) in 2017 and sought to understand what enables youth resilience to drought and how best to use youth insights to champion resilience. It involved multiple co-researchers, including 43 Leandra-based young people (aged 15-24), BoingBoing youth representatives (a UK-based NPO), 15 post-graduate students from the Department of Educational Psychology (University of Pretoria), and UK and SA academics (including the Centre for the Study of Resilience). The symposium was organized in to three main papers. Paper 1 (Mosna Khaile, Linda Theron, Motlalepule Mampane, Liesel Ebersöhn, & Angie Hart) reflected critically on the co-productive process that informed the study. Paper 2 (Netsai Gwata & Linda Theron) examined what enabled and constrained resilience among young adults challenged by drought. Paper 3 (Gwyneth Vollebregt, Megan Hanekom & Linda Theron) interrogated how adolescents are resilient to drought and considers gendered aspects of the resilience processes which adolescents reported. All three papers distilled implications for Educational Psychology theory and practice. The symposium was also a useful opportunity to showcase some of the co-produced outputs from the study (e.g., a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xMc9cY41dc&feature=youtu.be), a policy document (https://www.brighton.ac.uk/_pdf/research/crsj/united-we-stand.pdf), and blogs (available on https://www.boingboing.org.uk/resilience-among-young-people-community-affected-drought/).

 

 

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