Health and Wellbeing in Childhood

Resilience is complex and multifaceted, attracting research across a number of disciplines. The focus of this chapter is the importance of teachers’ everyday practice in early years settings (preschools and schools) for supporting resilience.The chapter begins with a brief outline of how resilience is defined, and highlights how the building of resilience is an important element in children’s learning as noted in curriculum frameworks that guide teachers practice. It then moves on to describe ways in which teachers working across the early years promote resilience. The final section of the chapter lists questions that can be useful to help early years teachers reflect on their own practice in relation to resilience.