Webster, David R and Rivers, Nicola (2018) 'Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy.' Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 27 (4). pp. 523-535.
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Resilience; Neoliberalism; Snowflakes; Millennials; Precarity; Higher education |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Administration and Professional Services > Library and Information Services |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| ISSN: | 14681366 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2018.1534261 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2020 09:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/32341 |
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