Conclusions and Considerations

In order to integrate resilience meaningfully into teacher practice, we need to

• Integrate it with professional experience to strengthen links between theory and practice;
• Start with student voice to bridge theory to practice which enables the embedding of theoretical learning solidly into practice by uncovering students’ underlying beliefs;
• Focus on developing alternative perspectives to enhance relational resilience, and to create access to resources that may not have been previously accessible.

Using arts-based methods and narrative pedagogies

• Enables the creation of art work that brings together cognition and affect. How teachers “feel” has disappeared from IT discourse, but it must be discussed and challenged;
• Enables us to challenge the tacit values that underpin resilience in a safe context (i.e. moving from individualistic to ecological perspectives);
• Interpreting others’ work offers new insight and capacity to manage ambiguity and conditional knowing about resilience.