POSITIVE EDUCATION INTERVENTION PROGRAMME OUTCOME ON THE ACADEMIC RESILIENCE OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

One thing inevitable about life is adversities. Difficult situations can be encountered by anyone at anytime and anyplace. One cannot control what can happen but one can definitely learn to respond to situations. How one deals with challenges in life or adversities contributes to a large extent to that person's well- being. The ability required by a person to recover from adversities is resilience. Academic resilience is defined as the ability to effectively deal with setback, stress or pressure in the academic Setting. This paper aims to ascertain the outcome of positive education intervention programme on the Academic Resilience of the pre-service teachers. The positive education intervention programme of 30 hours was developed for this purpose. The participants included in the study were 46 and 48 pre-service teachers in the control and experimental group respectively. The findings of the study indicate pre-service teachers from the experimental group have scored higher on Academic Resilience as compared to the pre-service teachers from the control group after controlling the effect of their pre- test scores.