Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study
University education should not be limited to mere instruction in professional skills but should foster the holistic development of students. This approach is particularly necessary in a changing society marked by rapid technological advances, labor transformations and global challenges. Therefore,...
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| description | University education should not be limited to mere instruction in professional skills but should foster the holistic development of students. This approach is particularly necessary in a changing society marked by rapid technological advances, labor transformations and global challenges. Therefore, higher education must offer students the opportunity to develop strategies to protect and improve their mental health. Within the concept of mental health is resilience, which enables the mobilization of internal and external resources to cope with and learn from challenging situations, managing change and uncertainty more effectively. Using a mixed methodological approach based on an explanatory sequential design, the present study aims to determine the effect of Service-Learning on the levels of resilience of students enrolled in the degree of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I in Spain. To this end, the Resilience Questionnaire for Adults (RQA) was administered before and after a Service-Learning program. The reflection diaries written by the participants (n = 54) were analyzed too. The quantitative results show an improvement, which is significant for the “adaptative” and “tolerance” components of resilience, while the qualitative phase allows us to understand these results. In general, the findings point to the development of resilience among participants, which is a result consistent with previous literature suggesting that Service-Learning can be an adequate approach to foster the acquisition of skills present in the resilience construct, while favoring learning and fostering social compromise. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-55ff5f51182b4752bb35763d0d0b1a792025-08-20T02:12:41ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-04-011610.3389/fpsyg.2025.15684761568476Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods studyMarta Sánchez-Jiménez0Marta Sánchez-Jiménez1María Maravé-Vivas2Jesús Gil-Gómez3Celina Salvador-Garcia4CEIP Vil·la Romana, Valencia, SpainUniversitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, SpainDepartment of Education and Specific Didactics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, SpainDepartment of Education and Specific Didactics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, SpainDepartment of Pedagogy and Didactics of Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, SpainUniversity education should not be limited to mere instruction in professional skills but should foster the holistic development of students. This approach is particularly necessary in a changing society marked by rapid technological advances, labor transformations and global challenges. Therefore, higher education must offer students the opportunity to develop strategies to protect and improve their mental health. Within the concept of mental health is resilience, which enables the mobilization of internal and external resources to cope with and learn from challenging situations, managing change and uncertainty more effectively. Using a mixed methodological approach based on an explanatory sequential design, the present study aims to determine the effect of Service-Learning on the levels of resilience of students enrolled in the degree of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I in Spain. To this end, the Resilience Questionnaire for Adults (RQA) was administered before and after a Service-Learning program. The reflection diaries written by the participants (n = 54) were analyzed too. The quantitative results show an improvement, which is significant for the “adaptative” and “tolerance” components of resilience, while the qualitative phase allows us to understand these results. In general, the findings point to the development of resilience among participants, which is a result consistent with previous literature suggesting that Service-Learning can be an adequate approach to foster the acquisition of skills present in the resilience construct, while favoring learning and fostering social compromise.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1568476/fullService-Learningresiliencemixed methodshigher educationphysical educationteacher education |
| spellingShingle | Marta Sánchez-Jiménez Marta Sánchez-Jiménez María Maravé-Vivas Jesús Gil-Gómez Celina Salvador-Garcia Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study Frontiers in Psychology Service-Learning resilience mixed methods higher education physical education teacher education |
| title | Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| title_full | Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| title_fullStr | Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| title_short | Building pre-service teachers’ resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| title_sort | building pre service teachers resilience through service learning an explanatory sequential mixed methods study |
| topic | Service-Learning resilience mixed methods higher education physical education teacher education |
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