Resilience as the concept explaining school dynamics

This study examines whether the concept of resilience can be applied to school organization through research reviews of some disciplines in terms of organizational resilience concept.Resilience is “the ability that can stand up to outward impact and doesn’t lose it’s function and structure”. It is a concept applied in the various situations from ecological and social system to organization and individual psychographics. This paper investigates whether this concept can comprehensively explain all dynamics of school organization by analyzing various factors of organizational resilience concept.In conclusion, I presented a hypothetical organizational resilience model to comprehend the school organizational resilience by adding a school’s context to the conceptual model of organizational resilience suggested by preceding studies. The model’s features are said in the three points below.(1) The model supposes three-layer structure of organization/team/individual as a viewpoint to comprehend an organizational dynamics.(2) The model introduces resilience of cognitive/behavioral/contextual as the viewpoint to describe the dynamics that each of organization/team/individual adopts oneself to events and changes.(3) The model develops several interactions of organization/team/individual in order to describe such organizational dynamics more qualitatively