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This study examines media discourse of academic adversity and resilience to understand what are considered to be deterrents of academic success and what are believed to effectively counteract the deterrents and contribute to educational resilience.
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This paper discusses how educational resilience experiences are represented in the mass media, how the students concerned articulate their situations, and the implications of such media discourse on academic resilience.
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This page is a summary of: “Lose at the Starting Line, Win at the Finishing Line”: The Narratives Behind Beating Academic Adversity, Social Indicators Research, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1574-8.
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