Remapping the landscape of resilience: learning from an Arrernte teacher’s story
Remapping the landscape of resilience: learning from an Arrernte teacher’s story Conference Paper
Knowledge Intersections: Exploring the Research of Central Australia
- Author(s): Strangeways, Al, Papatraianou, Lisa
- Published: 2017
Abstract: Resilience is central to helping teachers address the challenges of their profession. Most accounts, however, are limited by their uniform conceptualisation of resilience, failing to consider the impacts of context and culture. This paper explores what resilience means in the specific context of one Arrernte beginning teacher in central Australia. Using arts-based and narrative methods, we listen to his story, and follow the pathways he has taken across a landscape of resilience. Reflecting on his narrative offers us a new way of understanding the complexity of resilience and its function as it as a process rather than a phenomenon. Further, this reflection challenges the normative value judgements that arise from Western constructions of resilience. Following this teacher’s pathways helps us to re-map the landscape of resilience, so that the Western ‘highways’ that comprise conceptions of resilience as individualistic, value-laden and absolute are recognised as part of a broader landscape of resilience, one that is ecological, transactional and relative to time and place.
- Urls: https://www.batchelor.edu.au/biite/wp-content/uploads/Research-Symposium-Proceedings-2017_web.pdf
- Publisher Location: Alice Springs