Two representatives from the Let’s Care project team from University Ignatianum in Cracow participated in the Scientific Conference “Social Pedagogy In Service To Man And Community” which was held at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan on April 16, 2024. Prof. Anna Błasiak and PhD Ewa Dybowska delivered the presentation entitled “Protective factors of the school environment vs. strengthening resilience in the family”.
Resilience is defined as the ability to survive and bounce back from destructive life challenges. It includes dynamic processes that foster positive adaptation in the context of significant adversity. The formation of resilience is today a basic educational need and task of various environments, especially school and family, resulting from socio-cultural changes. Resilience, viewed as a process and as a trait, is supposed to promote the optimal functioning of the individual in a changing world. The authors consider protective factors, resilient and adaptive resources, specific values and the environmental potential of the school’s culture as an important area of educational interactions concerning the formation and strengthening of resilience.
The purpose of the paper was to reflect scientifically on the protective factors present in the school space and their impact on the resilience of the person and the family, so as to promote the development of the person and increase the quality of their lives. In such a perspective, the development of the person is understood in its context of relationship with the environment. A picture of this context is the theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner, according to which the developmental factors of a person lie in the individual himself, microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem. Relationships between environments and the quality of these systems are responsible for a person’s developmental success. Thus, it is important to build a culture of school-family-environment cooperation.
The paper, in which the assumptions of the Let’s Care project were presented, was met with interest from the audience, the result was a lively discussion.
