Our journey in life brings us many opportunities, and these can be very positive indeed. However, an opportunity might, at the same time, be something that taxes us in some way, whether physically, mentally or both. Some of them might be fairly easily resolved, but some of them can prove to be a major challenge. This is the case whether this concerns our work environment or our personal one, and it is no less so for us, academics, as it is for our students. As the authors of the first article in this issue tell us, whether we need to maximise the opportunities that come our way or when presented with situations that might perhaps cause us setbacks of some type, we have to draw on the personal characteristics, our psychological reserves, that we possess, such as being adaptable, flexible, our level of optimism and our confidence. Whether in response to a positive opportunity or instead to a tricky challenge, resilience is one of the personal characteristics that we need to draw on. As with any other characteristic, skill or ability, some of us have high levels of resilience and others may have very low levels of this. The authors, Anne E Goodenough, Hazel Roberts, David M Biggs, James G Derounian, Adam G Hart and Kenny Lynch, all at the University of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom, tell us that resilience is multifaceted, and that if our students are to respond as well as they might to the opportunities and also to the setbacks that they face, the higher their level of resilience that they possess, the better. Entitled ‘A higher degree of resilience: Using psychometric testing to reveal the benefits of university internship placements’, as the title makes clear, this article looks at resilience when it comes to something that we encourage all of our students to undertake, that is, an internship/a work placement. Part of our role as academics is to prepare our students for the workplace, and the authors cite research which points to the role that plays when it comes to not only attainment and engagement but also employability. The article provides an overview of the importance of resilience, and it covers aspects such as the view held by those who employ our graduates that they often do not possess the skills and abilities required of them in the workplace, thus leading employers to have to provide extra training. Whether the expectations of the employers are reasonable or not, or that we, in universities, are doing enough to prepare them for the workplace is, as the authors rightly say, a moot point. However, regardless of anyone’s view on this, no one could or would argue that our role is to foster the skills and abilities that our future graduates need for the workplace, or, more accurately, for life more generally. Such skills and abilities are not workplace specific, after all, and while all of us spent many hours at work, we spend far more of them outside of the workplace, where the opportunities and setbacks are no less important or challenging. Indeed, they are arguably more important and/or challenging. The article covers skills such as collaboration with others and effective communication, and that those of emotional intelligence, adaptability, responding well to challenges and recovering quickly from any setbacks are those which are associated with resilience, going on to say that there are many types of this. The article provides an insight into aspects such 914814 ALH0010.1177/1469787420914814Active Learning in Higher EducationBaldwin editorial2020

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我们的人生旅程给我们带来了许多机会，而这些机会确实非常积极。然而，机会同时可能会以某种方式对我们征税，无论是身体上、精神上还是两者兼而有之。其中一些可能很容易解决，但其中一些可能被证明是一个重大挑战。无论这涉及我们的工作环境还是我们的个人环境，情况都是如此，对于我们，学者和我们的学生而言，情况同样如此。正如本期第一篇文章的作者告诉我们的那样，无论我们是需要最大限度地利用我们遇到的机会，还是在遇到可能导致我们遭受某种挫折的情况时，我们都必须利用个人特征，我们的心理我们拥有的储备，例如适应性、灵活性、我们的乐观程度和我们的信心。无论是应对积极的机会还是应对棘手的挑战，韧性都是我们需要利用的个人特征之一。与任何其他特征、技能或能力一样，我们中的一些人具有很高的恢复能力，而其他人的恢复能力可能非常低。来自英国格洛斯特郡大学的 Anne E Goodenough、Hazel Roberts、David M Biggs、James G Derounian、Adam G Hart 和 Kenny Lynch 告诉我们，韧性是多方面的，如果我们的学生要他们对机会和面临的挫折做出尽可能好的反应，他们拥有的弹性水平越高越好。题为“更高程度的适应力：使用心理测试来揭示大学实习安置的好处”，正如标题所明确的那样，本文着眼于我们鼓励所有学生进行的事情时的弹性，即实习/工作安置。我们作为学者的部分职责是让我们的学生为工作做好准备，作者引用的研究指出，不仅在成绩和参与度方面，而且在就业能力方面，这一角色都扮演着重要的角色。这篇文章概述了韧性的重要性，涵盖了一些方面，例如雇用我们毕业生的人认为他们通常不具备他们在工作场所所需的技能和能力，因此导致雇主必须提供额外的训练。雇主的期望是否合理，或者我们在大学里为他们准备工作做的足够多，正如作者所说的那样，是一个有争议的问题。然而，无论任何人对此有何看法，都没有人能够或会争辩说，我们的角色是培养未来毕业生在工作场所，或者更准确地说，是更普遍的生活所需的技能和能力。毕竟，这些技能和能力并不是特定于工作场所的，虽然我们所有人都在工作中花费了很多时间，但我们在工作场所之外花费的时间要多得多，在那里机会和挫折同样重要或具有挑战性。事实上，它们可以说更重要和/或更具挑战性。这篇文章涵盖了诸如与他人合作和有效沟通等技能，而情商、适应能力、对挑战的良好反应和从任何挫折中快速恢复等技能都是与韧性相关的技能，继续说有很多类型的这。