Functional Resilience of School Systems
Lessons learned from the corona pandemic looking ahead
Lessons learned from the corona pandemic looking ahead
As part of the non-pharmaceutical interventions employed against the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures, with a transition to distance learning, was one of the most common containment strategies. Preparing the school system for a future crisis requires the ability to examine the effectiveness of schools' functioning during distant learning and their level of preparedness for future crises. Functional resilience is defined as the ability to maintain vital functional continuity in the face of disturbance.
The objectives of the study include:
- To develop a functional resilience index of schools cross-nationally
- To evaluate and validate the functional resilience index
- To map the factors that are related to functional resilience;
- To compare the level of functional resilience in different types of schools
- To identify which characteristics/variables of schools will successfully predict functional resilience.
We hypothesize that differences will be observed on the school level and varied according to the schools’ characteristics, among each stakeholder, as well as on the cross-national level.
The Principle Investigators are Arielle Kaim, Prof. Bruria Adini, and Dr. Shahar Lev-Ari. The project is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Petra Dickmann and Dr. Jennifer McGowan.
