Resilience in Student Success: Engagement, Well-Being, and Growth in STEM
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "STEM Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2027 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editors
Interests: access, resilience, retention, graduation, and workforce development in STEM fields
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: resilience, cultural and social factors in STEM higher education; marginalization in STEM; retention, graduation, and workforce/professional development in STEM fields
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Students display resilience in higher education through a variety of strategies and experiences. This issue aims to demonstrate how resilience is manifested in transformative and asset-based approaches. Historically, resilience has been studied in terms of “bouncing back” or adaptive approaches that are typically taxing to the student and emphasizes individual struggle. However, resilience can also be understood as the capacity to leverage assets, relationships, and opportunities to thrive and progress. Resilience through this asset-based approach is associated with a myriad of factors that propel the student to attain their higher-education degree and beyond. These factors include but are not limited to: academic support, social support or influence (peers, mentorship), cultural influence, mental health, psychological or general well-being, college readiness preparation, political changes, professional development, workforce readiness, and more.
Therefore, resilience is connected to a web of factors working in tandem in education and beyond. As the pressures rise for attaining education in systems that are not always highly accessible or equitable, this Special Issue is timely as we work on identifying what works, or resilience manifested in terms of success and thriving (asset-based approaches) and not in ways that tax students (such as grit or deficit-based approaches), particularly in STEM fields where there is arguably a great need for resilience. This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to asset-based approaches that support student success during and after college in STEM fields.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- student resilience in higher education;
- college readiness and resilience;
- student success during and after college among underserved populations;
- workforce readiness of underrepresented populations in STEM;
- the topics above along gender or ethnic background of any specific population.
Dr. Elsa Gonzalez
Dr. Emma Claudia Perez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience
- asset-based
- student success
- underrepresented
- STEM
- workforce readiness
- college readiness
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