Institutional and pedagogical approaches towards supporting student resilience.

This workshopexploreslecturers’ perspectiveson theexperiencesthatcontribute to the educational resilience ofstudents in enabling programs and their subsequent studieswhile working towardsapproachesfor pedagogy and institutional structuresto enhance student persistence, retention,and success.Work on developing educational resilience often places the onus on the individual student and their development or lack of personal qualities. However, research suggests that the bond/support that university teachers provide their students is vital to student success and the development of academic resilience;and that the effectiveness of these two elements is largely context dependent.Equally, wider institutional factors (e.g. policy and resourcing)affect the students’ lived experience and ability to employ their innate resilience in the higher educational context. Through an exploration of narratives of academic resilience, participants will draw together those pedagogical and institutional factors that potentially influenced their own and their students’ success.