| 21st Century Skills

RESILIENCE

As a citizen of the 21st century,
you should be able to

Learn from your mistakes and keep trying.
Develop skills to handle and overcome tough situations.
Build and maintain a support network of friends and family.
Be able to cope with stress and recover from setbacks.
Keep believing in yourself and staying optimistic.
Have self-respect, discipline, and courage to tackle challenges.
Be willing to face new experiences with confidence and a positive attitude.

Competence
Area

Skills

Ability to depend on yourself more than anyone and to be on your own if you have to
Ability to persevere and be determined to accomplish things
Ability to manage, get through difficult times and find a way out, following through with plans
Ability to believe that you have control over the outcomes or events in your live
Ability to find effective and convenient ways to overcome difficulties (resourcefulness)
Ability to maintain yourself optimistic and courageous in the face of adversity
Ability to maintain good and positive relationships, to keep effective social interactions, and to build social networks
Ability to hold a prosocial behaviour (i.e. being altruistic, generous)

Ability to belief in yourself (self-confidence), your capabilities (self-reliance), and to recognize your strengths and limitations
Ability to value yourself (self-esteem), have a positive perception of yourself, and find pride in the things you have accomplished
Ability to regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behavior (self-regulation)
Ability to hold a balanced perspective of your life and experience
Ability to adapt to change, to deal with uncertainty and stressful situations (active coping), and to have a sense of peace
Ability to develop a sense of belonging (cohesion) and be part of a culture (adherence)
Ability to develop a moral compass: spiritual or religious beliefs that give meaning to life

Creating of a strategy, theory, method, or argument based on a synthesis of evidence
Creating an argument that goes beyond available information
Synthesis, dialectic debating, designing, planning
Computational thinking: abstractions and pattern generalizations; systematic processing of information; symbol systems and representations; algorithmic notions of flow of control; structured problem decomposition (modularizing); iterative, recursive, and parallel thinking; conditional logic; efficiency and performance constraints; debugging and systematic error detection

Judging the quality of content, information, procedures or solutions
Being able to criticize a work product with respect to their credibility, relevance, and bias using a set of standards or specific framework
Criticism, auditing, appraisal, authentication

Sources: Based on a review of existing frameworks
(Wagnild & Young, 1993; Connor, 2006; Wu, Feder, Cohen, Kim, Calderon, Charney & Mathé, 2013; Ungar and Liebenberg, 2011).

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RESOURCES

Connor, K. M. (2006). Assessment of resilience in the aftermath of trauma. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67(2), 46-49. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16602815/
Liebenberg, L., Ungar, M., & Vijver, F. V. D. (2012). Validation of the child and youth resilience measure-28 (CYRM-28) among Canadian youth. Research on social work practice, 22(2), 219-226. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1049731511428619
Luthar, S. S., Cicchetti, D., & Becker, B. (2000). The construct of resilience: A critical evaluation and guidelines for future work. Child development, 71(3), 543-562. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1885202/
Masten, A. S. (2001). Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development. American psychologist, 56(3), 227. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-00465-004
Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2011). Assessing resilience across cultures using mixed methods: Construction of the child and youth resilience measure. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 5(2), 126-149. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1558689811400607
Wagnild, G. M., & Young, H. M. (1993). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. Journal of Nursmg Measurement, 1(2), 165178. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7850498/
Wu, G., Feder, A., Cohen, H., Kim, J. J., Calderon, S., Charney, D. S., & Mathé, A. A. (2013). Understanding resilience. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 7, 10. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573269/

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