Community Resilience

Resilience within Indigenous communities

Indigenous scholars and community-based researchers have been studying concepts of resilience within Indigenous communities.

Experts have identified cultural resilience factors like connection to language, land, and cultural identity as key strengths to supporting community resilience among Indigenous individuals and communities.

Learn more in the article, Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives from Kirmayer, Dandaneau, & Marshall (2011).

• Resilience within Indigenous communitiesJournal Article
• Research behind disparities in mental health and impacts on learningMultiple
• Universal Design for Learning: Theory and PracticeBook
• Students’ sense of campus community: What it means, and what to do about itJournal Article
• Constructing belonging in a diverse campus communityJournal Article
• Facilitating ‘Dialogues Across Difference’Book
• Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women’s representation in mathematicsJournal Article
• Sense of belonging and persistence in white and African-American first-year studentsJournal Article
• College students’ sense of belonging: Dimensions and correlatesJournal Article (PDF)
• Learning environment, interaction, sense of belonging and study success in ethnically diverse student groupsJournal Article
• A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority studentsJournal Article
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