1.5 Resilience in Books and Films

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Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives

110 calificaciones

University of Minnesota

Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives

110 calificaciones

How do children overcome hazardous experiences to succeed in life? What can be done to protect young people at risk from trauma, war, disasters, and other adversities? Learn about the importance of fostering resilience in children at risk. During this course, participants will: learn how trauma can affect children and the systems they depend on, gain insight into core concepts, research methods and lessons learned in last 50 years of resilience research, learn how research is being applied in the real world through interventions that promote resilience, and engage in discussions with others who are working with children at risk around the world Participants are welcome to take the MOOC at no cost or to register for a Course Certificate ($49). Those who register and earn a Course Certificate from Coursera also are eligible to sign up for continuing education clock hours through the University of Minnesota. Participants can earn 10 clock hours of continuing education credit (added cost $99) from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Go here http://z.umn.edu/1a5q to register for continuing education clock hours for completing this course.

De la lección

Week 1: Origins and Landmark Studies in the Science of Resilience in Children

The first module of this course provides an introduction to the course and to the science of resilience. Video lectures discuss the meaning of resilience and the origins of resilience science. Participants will begin to think about case examples of resilience from their own experience and plan for a resilience interview. In the forum discussions, participants will introduce themselves, discuss the meaning of resilience and its importance in their work. Participants also will nominate favorite films and books about true stories of resilience:

1.1 Introduction to the Course9:33

1.2 Origins and 4 Waves of Resilience Science9:10

1.3 Defining Resilience14:33

1.4 Early Landmark Studies of Resilience13:39

1.5 Resilience in Books and Films6:07

Optional video: Resilience in the face of adversity by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.4:06

Conoce a los instructores

Ann S. Masten, Ph.D., LP
Regents Professor, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development
Institute of Child Development

The thing with resilience, true stories of resilience have been portrayed

in many books and films over the years, and we are going to talk about some of

those in this course and try to gather up examples from all of you

watching the course of your favorite true stories of resilience.

This book to destroy you is no loss, is a very powerful story of resilience.

This is a biography but it's written like an autobiography.

It's the story of Thida Butt Mam a Cambodian woman who when

she was a teenager experienced the Holocaust in Cambodia

that was perpetrated by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge during

the time called The Killing Fields from 1975 to 1979.

She told her story to JoAn Criddle, who, and

together they created this wonderful account of resilience.

In this book, Thida describes her experiences

when the Khmer Rouge took over, how it affected her family,

many of her friends and relatives were killed.

And she was forced to go into a work camp as were many other young adolescents.

And she describes the horror and terror of that experience,

both threats of death and starvation.

And she describes one particular passage,

this very powerful where what happened when one of her

friends was killed by the Khmer Rouge, she was raped until she died.

And this terrified Thida and her friends and

they fell into despair that this might happen to them.

And then these girls began to carry around poison so

that they wouldn't suffer the same fate.

But it was a very low time in her life and

experience during the killing fields period.

Then she has an epiphany.

One morning she looks up in the sky as the sun is rising and

sees the animals in the rice paddies and her perspective changes.

She has this sudden realization that the Khmer Rouge can't control everything.

They don't control when the sun rises and falls.

And she feels a surge of hope and meaning.

And at that time, Thida decides to survive and

carry on and regains her hopes for the future.

Many of the people who've experienced this kind of horrible

disaster or adversity, report these kinds of epiphanies,

an epiphany of meaning that gives them hope and the courage to carry on.

Thida and many of her family made it to Thailand,

escaped from Cambodia, and went on to the United States, where she grew up and

became a very successful person and worked with Joan Criddle

to create this powerful account of her experience with the Khmer Rouge.

There have been many other autobiographies telling stories of resilience.

I've listed a few examples here, and what we're going to do is generate

a list for reading and reviewing in this course.

These are favorites of mine, but there are many others.

Maya Angelou wrote multiple autobiographical books about her

own life growing up what she's suffered and this is the story of her resilience.

Ishmael Beah was a child soldier who wrote this account of

his experience both as what happened to him as a boy soldier and

then what happened, how he recovered from that experience.

Liz Murray was made famous actually by a television film called

From Homeless to Harvard and she has published her

autobiography since then after she graduated from Harvard.

And we're going to talk more about that later on in the course.

There are also not only her film, on television, but

many other films and documentaries with true stories of resilience,

The Lost Boys of Sudan is one of my favorites.

And there's a documentary available online called Ida's Story

that I think is also a very powerful story of a young girl's life.

It chronicles what happened to her in 1918, when the Cossacks

invaded Ukraine and she had traumatic experiences then.

But she's recounting what happened when she's in her 90s.

During this module of the course we

also are going to have you watch the story of Michael Maddaus.

He's a classic late bloomer.

His life story was documented by the PBS special,

NOVA special called, This Emotional Life.

And there's about a nine minute segment of his story that you're going to watch

from that television program.

And then we've also had the opportunity to sit down with Dr.

Maddaus and have a conversation with him with a little bit more detail

about his life's story that's on the course site for you to watch.

So we want you to nominate books and films,

true stories of resilience that you have found very powerful and

affected your thinking about resilience.

And we'll share that with the course.

You'll find instructions on our course site of how to nominate some of your

examples.

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