Rethinking academic resilience
university communities in the face of a prolonged crisis
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https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v30iesp2.21393Keywords:
Academic Resilience, University Community, Prolonged Crisis, Access to higher educationAbstract
This study develops an integrative framework of university community resilience to prolonged crises based on organisational resilience theory, servant leadership theory, and the educational partnership framework. The research employs theoretical synthesis and conceptual analysis, illustrated by the experience of Ukrainian universities in 2022–2024. The proposed model has three levels, namely, institutional, community, and individual, and four phases: anticipation, coping, adaptation, and transformation. The theoretical contributions of the study include the following: parallel resilience is conceptualised in terms of the ability of a university community to operate simultaneously across several phases of the crisis cycle within the proposed four-phase model; servant leadership is identified as the system-forming mechanism that ensures coherence across all levels of the model; the construct of resourcefulness-as-partnership is presented, as is the fundamental difference between compensatory partnership, which restores lost resources, and generative partnership, which creates new institutional capabilities.
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