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Symposium: Diversifying contexts and pathways to community resilience

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Tuesday 5 May 2015

The Centre for Cultural Diversity Wellbeing would like to invite you to this mobilities, transitions and resilience research symposium.

This Symposium explores community-based resilience strengths, challenges and contexts that may have been overlooked or under-investigated by earlier resilience frameworks.

Over the past decade, global research has increasingly focused on the role of families, communities and institutions in generating and supporting individual and community resilience. This agenda takes us beyond earlier debates around the importance of nature and nurture for individuals overcoming adversity by recognising multiple meanings and pathways to resilience; the significance of social, educational, cultural and political contexts, and the dynamic relationships within and across these contexts.

The Symposium’s five papers adopt a range of conceptual and methodological approaches to examining resilience in diverse communities in a variety of educational and socio-cultural contexts.

Dr Laurie Chapin (College of Arts) speaks on the role of mentors and resilience for secondary school students from divorced families and the link to positive educational goals.

Dr Gwen Gilmore (College of Education) examines the role of student communities, university systems and pedagogies in relational resilience for prospective students who fail to meet university entrance scores and enrol in an alternative diploma program.

Professor Michele Grossman (Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing) takes an assets-based approach to identifying and harnessing both culturally specific and cross-cutting elements of ‘resilience capital’ in countering violent extremism across four ethno-culturally diverse Australian communities.

Similarly, social capital theory informs Dr Charles Mphande’s (College of Arts) analysis of informal networks that generate resilience in emerging African communities in the context of the sub-optimal political climate around humanitarian immigration.

Dr Dorothy Bottrell (College of Education) explores the relationship of resilience and responsibility in the accounts of African young leaders, framed within a political ecology of resilience.

Professor Marie Brennan’s (College of Education) role as discussant following the presentations will serve as a springboard for dialogue and inform the final versions of each paper.

Final versions of each paper will be presented at the Pathways to Resilience III: Beyond Nature vs. Nurture Conference, 16-19 June 2015, Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

Program

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For catering purposes please RSVP by 1 May to [email protected].

 

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5 May 2015, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

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Polly Probert
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing
Phone: 
9919 4362