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This chapter offers curriculum design guidelines for higher education coursework on the topic of resilience, tailored to pre-service emerging adult students in the fields of librarianship and primary and secondary school teaching. Professionals in these fields face stress and challenging work conditions exacerbated by global crises. These external conditions place increasing community-level demand on teachers and librarians for care-based service work, often without added funding resources. Resilience is a multi-disciplinary construct involving both adaptation to the realities of changing external conditions and constructive capacity-building in individuals to personally cope with and manage such pressures. The construct holds promise as a topical domain of study and focus for pre-service teachers and librarians who often serve as information and service referral guides to the public during crises. The chapter provides inter-disciplinary guidelines for resilience coursework emphasizing both a “learning about” and “learning to be” approach.
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Reynolds, R.B. (2022). A Crisis-Adaptive Approach to Resilience-Building in Pre-service Teaching and Librarianship Education: Learning About and Learning to Be. In: Leontopoulou, S., Delle Fave, A. (eds) Emerging Adulthood in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Crises: Individual and Relational Resources. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22288-7_18
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