Resilience of Polish tertiary teachers – how to define it and how to build it

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse the resilience competence of Polish tertiary teachers which allowed them to cope with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of education. The article specifically emphasizes how the resilience competence is defined in the Polish context. The article also presents an overview of expected tertiary learning outcomes for future teachers of Polish, and English as a foreign language, in order to analyse the degree to which tertiary teacher training courses emphasize the importance of social and emotional aspects of teaching which are part of the resilience competence. Finally, the article presents selected ways of building resilience for tertiary teachers.