COVID-19 and School Management

COVID-19 and School Management

G. S. Prakasha, Peter Varkey Muttungal, Joseph Varghese Kureethara
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4446-7.ch017
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Abstract

The breakout of COVID-19 from Wuhan, China has shaken the world economy, giving a traumatic experience to people across the world. Most of the countries have locked down their business enterprises. Schools have started teaching online, and teachers have moved to online teaching in no time. School managers are making quick decisions on various challenges faced by their schools. These uncertain conditions have led to the present study. The present study explores the impact of COVID-19 on various dimensions of school management, such as finance, infrastructure, staff training, student enrollment, student retention, student welfare activities, co-curricular activities, and challenges and opportunities; how to maintain efficiency amidst COVID-19 pandemic; and how to reduce the pandemic effect in schools. This research employed the phenomenological qualitative method to address the research problems. The data was collected from the semi-structured online interview and review of related literature. The study describes the effect of COVID-19 on various dimensions of school management.
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Background

To position the proposed study, employing a narrative review approach, we explore other research dealing with various educational aspects of school management published mostly in January 2020.

The study conducted by Ghosh et al. (2020) on the impact of COVID-19 on children focusing particularly on psychosocial aspect indicate that School closure, lack of outdoor activity, aberrant dietary and sleeping habits are found to disrupt children's usual lifestyle and can potentially promote monotony, distress, impatience, annoyance and varied neuropsychiatric manifestations. The study came up with the steps to curtail the psychosocial burden of school children amidst the pandemic, which could help teachers support students in nurturing psychosocial aspects. Yeo et al. (2020), who studied the e-learning approach to reduce student mixing during a pandemic, finds that e-learning interventions in educational organizations can minimize disease transmission and brings less disruption to educational organizations' operations.

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