Fostering Human Resilience

Biography

Andrea Cárdenas-Jiménez is a woman with disability, who knew resilience across her academic education as psychologist and her personal experience with social inclusion, especially inclusive education. She is Universidad Nacional de Colombia graduate, where by her Public Health MA, has achieved to stablish links between phisical, social and cultural environment and individual processes, particularly resilience. She is co-resercher in Discapacidad, Políticas y Justicia Social research group (2009 at present). She is author of publications related to resilience and disability, between them book Familia y Capacidades Diferentes: Una Oportunidad para Crecer, with Marisol Moreno, and Analysis Matrix of Resilience in the Face of Disability, Old Age and Poverty in the International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, with Alba Lucero López. She had represented Universidad Nacional de Colombia in diverse national and international académic events.

Abstract

Abstract : Resilience and Disability: Life Oral History in Ecological Perspective