Fostering Children’s Resilience Through School Education:

An Approach That Supports School Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Abstract

  As various school crises, such as bullying and disasters, occur increasingly, resilience has become a key word in support at all stages in the prevention and recovery phases of school crises. This paper focuses on developing sustainable child resilience in Japanese schools during school crises. The paper is organized as follows: (1)the concept of school crisis and resilience is explained; (2)the findings of resilience research with Japanese children are summarized, and then the need for longitudinal research is described; (3)this is followed by a summary of the issues related to the development of resilience in Japanese schools by looking at resilience-building programs and the efforts being made in school education activities in the "prevention phase" and the "recovery phase" before and after a school crisis, respectively. Additionally, the following are examined: (4)based on the knowledge of curriculum, classroom management, and teacher involvement, and (5) to develop resilience in schools, the interaction between programs and school education activities is important, especially in developing resilience in schools. Therefore, we suggest this approach.