MineCraft a Media for Resilience

In 2010, Wyman et al. (2010) examined within a mental health framework ‘Resilience’, to promote a culture in young people in schools of building strategies, as a tool to self-manage the escalation of potential conflict points, aimed at mediating conduct in the classroom. This short paper aims to explore the scope for adapting the work by discovering why one might choose to employ digital media vs. traditional methods. This in an effort to extend the scope of the Wyman et al. (2010) methods to be inclusive of digital media, as an additional resource valued by youths to mediate adversity. Adversity thus, we can agree builds resilience and without resilience the world of ‘People’ is that much harder a place to navigate, as adversity can often escalate into conflict points when left unmediated. Personalisation as a method, mediated by a media that we value, helps us to deal with adversity in ways meaningful to us, this as micro mechanisms that are there to help us bounce back as against. being overwhelmed by a given adverse situation. The issue of adversity is further framed within a broader robust social framework context, that our children are no longer permitted to ‘Fail’, where every child is a winner on the schools sport pitches. This is in contradiction to the world of accountability and employability post school, where our youths are no longer protected from failing and yet have built little to no resilience at dealing with the effects of adversity (e.g., The Guardian 2015): “Exams have left my students incapable of thinking”; is thinking for yourself not a key component to making an informed choice and thus a tool that empowers the individual to build a resilience to adversity?

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Dorine Flies

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 128-129

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[0001]EPIK (Encouraging programming in kids)

Mozilla foundation and ionCube Ltd

Canterbury, Kent, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.62

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] J BeckM Wade 2004 Got Game: How a New Generation of Gamers is Reshaping Business Forever Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Business School Press

[2] N. J Chodorow 1999 The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture New Haven, CT Yale University Press

[3] N Elias 2000 [1939] The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psycho genetic Investigations E Jephcott Oxford, Blackwell

[4] The Guardian February 2015 Secret Teacher: exams have left my students incapable of thinking http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/feb/07/secret-teacher-exams-students-thinking 13 March 2015

[5] M Mauss 1973 Techniques of the body Economy and Society 2 1 70 88

[6] The Telegraph April 2015 Video games: eight out of ten homes own a next-gen games console http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/4248136/Video-games-eight-out-of-ten-homes-own-a-next-gen-games-console.html 20 April 2015

[7] Wikipedia 2015 Actor network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor–network_theory 13 March 2015

[8] P. A WymanW CrossC Hendricks BrownQ YuX TuS Eberly 2010 Intervention to Strengthen Emotional Self-Regulation in Children with Emerging Mental Health Problems: Proximal Impact on School Behaviour Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 38 707 720