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Resilience: Cautiously welcoming a contested concept

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Abstract

This overview article serves to introduce the content of a special issue of Child Care in Practice devoted to the topic of resilience and its relevance for policy and practice. In order to contextualise the contributions to the journal, the article introduces the concept of resilience, provides some definitions, raises some issues in definition and outlines some critiques and debates within the literature. It then describes the content of the subsequent contributions, before concluding briefly on the value of the concept.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalChild Care in Practice
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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