One of the most important things we can encourage in our students in an ever-changing world is adaptability – in other words, the ability to make adjustments in “cognition, behaviour and/or affect in response to uncertain and novel circumstances, conditions, and situations” (Martin, Nejad, Colmar & Liem, 2013).
We are living in a period of enormous political, financial and technological flux, and not only has this had an impact on the happiness and wellbeing of our students, with some 28 per cent of young people admitting that they don’t feel in control of their lives, but it does, of course, change the concept of “future” for young people (Getting back control, SecEd, February 2017: http://bit.ly/2ncSOUf).
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