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Student’s Resilience as Achieved Capability: The Substantive Grounded Theory in Public Education

Hazel C. Acosta

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study explores how students progress in public schools. Using Grounded Theory (GT) method at the substantive level of analysis, the theory on resilience emerges from three datasets gotten from teachers, administrators, and students in four public schools. Students’ resilience, as an achieved capability, is manifested in their creative, willful, and persistent attitude, response, and disposition towards their studies. The development of students’ resilience has four phases: awareness of varying endowments; adapting to limitations; survival of the fittest; and achieving success or failing. An analysis of interviews, observations, and focus group discussions points to the role of the support system provided by parents and teachers in fostering an enabling environment for students to develop techniques, strategies, and initiatives that sustain and strengthen students’ resilience in their studies.