Resilience and war experience of Ukrainian teachers, students and their parents

What is it about?

War experience of all participants in the educational process - teachers, students and their parents. For the first time since World War II, a full-scale war is taking place in a European country, millions of people are suffering from rocket attacks and bombings. The military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine led to numerous human casualties, huge destruction, economic losses, and also caused a number of acute challenges for students, their parents and teachers. Armed conflicts often occur in developing countries, where it is difficult to collect data on education and conduct resilience studies on a large sample, and martial law usually exacerbates these difficulties. And in general, few works are devoted to the study of the resilience of the participants of the educational process in the conditions of traumatic influences.

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Photo by Roman Mager on Unsplash

Photo by Roman Mager on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Our research revealed a number of important aspects: the relationship between resilience and place of residence, forced resettlement, subjective assessment of one's own security, involvement in various forms of learning (teaching), as well as gender and age differences in the resilience of the individual in the conditions of living in war. The results of this study emphasize the importance of developing resilience in teachers and parents - so that they can become a support for their students and children. According to our findings, parents and teachers can, supported by short-term psychoeducational interventions, provide meaningful and adequate support for children. The implementation of the above allows to provide support for a much larger cohort of those in need in a shorter period of time and with fewer resources than if the interventions were also addressed to children.

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