Academic Resilience Through Social Capital

Abstract

Resilience is an important personality trait imperative for an individual to succeed in life. It is the ability of an individual to overcome challenges and adversities encountered during persuasion of any task. Academic resilience enables students to face challenges during the course of education. It helps students to deal with unfavourable conditions effectively. It has been seen that the students are faced with several challenges during their course of learning period like classroom difficulties, adjustment problems with peer groups, home or family problems, inequalities in the education system and so on. Academic resilience is vital for them to get through all these challenges. Researchers had revealed that families, schools and communities are the main protector factors that help in fostering academic resilience among students (Bernard, 1995; wang. et.al, 1997). Family and school social support profusely impact the educational outcome of students. Resources generated by family and school in the form of social capital positively influence, academic resilience promoting their educational outcomes. The present article elaborates on academic resilience and the role of social capital in fostering academic resilience among students.