Back to normalities, plural? A longitudinal disaster-management perspective on Covid-19 in higher education

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche FachzeitschriftOriginalbeitrag in FachzeitschriftBegutachtung

Abstract

This paper offers a fresh perspective on the COVID-19 situation of higher education institutions from a disaster-management perspective. Based on conceptual models of disaster
management theory and with the help of a longitudinal multi-method, multi-perspective
approach, this research contributes to better understanding the challenges during and “after” such a crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic started with a single event (e.g. campuses are
shut down because of a dangerous disease) and transformed into a situation where new
events (like new virus mutants) deepened the crisis during the hypothetical restabilisation
phases. This includes the switch from a very coherent problem perception of all institutional actors in the beginning, to different and conflicting viewpoints and preferences
over time. The paper argues that these developments contribute to the already fragmented
realities of higher education institutions, e.g. by never giving institutions the time to agree
on how to deal with the abundance of options in the long run
OriginalspracheEnglisch
FachzeitschriftTertiary Education and Management
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PublikationsstatusElektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 10 Dez. 2024

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