Wellbeing and Resilience among Teacher Education Students in Nauru

Title
Wellbeing and Resilience among Teacher Education Students in Nauru
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Sullivan, Terry
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9301-8271
Email: tsulli23@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tsulli23
Serow, Penelope A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6775-178X
Email: pserow2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pbaker31
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Pacific Circle Consortium
Place of publication
United States of America
UNE publication id
une:22704
Abstract
The researchers wanted to understand how 22 Nauruan teacher education students responded to changing circumstances and whether or not they did anything specific to maintain their sense of resilience. The population of the Republic of Nauru is a small remote Pacific Island community of extended families, with the prioritisation of traditional family and community obligations. Most of the students access the Internet only when visiting their technology-equipped study centre, which is an allocated classroom in the secondary school. Even then technological infrastructure outages limit effective delivery. To ease these obstacles, teacher education is flexibly delivered, facilitated by two, face-to-face, support lecturers. Researchers noted that the students sensed wellbeing and resilience when their course and study habits were compatibly aligned with their family and community commitments and the students' technological, geographical and cultural contexts.
Link
Citation
Pacific-Asian Education, 29(1), p. 31-44
ISSN
1019-8725
Start page
31
End page
44

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