African Schools as Enabling Spaces

Vanessa Scherman is a full Professor, Department of Psychology of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa.Linda Liebenberg is a Research Fellow, Department of Psychology of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa.

• 1. Thinking in terms of systems and why this is important for understanding nodes of care and support 2. Schools as nodes of care: Bi-directional thinking on resilience in children and the community 3. Building schools as enabling spaces through relational leadership and an ethic of care 4. Advancing relational well-being for school success 5. Youth perspective on structural barriers 6. Youth perspectives on Academic Service Learning: Courage to fly into our dreams 7. A meta-summary review of enabling school-based interventions in highly challenged schools in a postcolonial, Global South space 8. Building learners’ reading literacy for academic resilience in challenging reading literacy development contexts 9. Creating enabling spaces for adolescents through the development of spiritual intelligence 10. Resilience resources for children in conflict with the law: The role of socio-ecological care and support 11. School as a community of care in facilitating resilience among learners with intellectual disability 12. Schools to accommodate sports participation of learners with a mobility impairment