Community Resilience Processes in Schools with Roma Students during COVID-19: Two Case Studies in Spain

Virginia Martínez-Lozano, Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern () and José L. Lalueza
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Virginia Martínez-Lozano: Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. Utrera km.1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern: Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. Utrera km.1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
José L. Lalueza: Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Plaça Cívica, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe coping strategies for difficulties generated by the COVID-19 pandemic in schools categorized as “highly vulnerable” in Spain, mainly focusing on children from immigrant and Roma families. Within the framework of a broader research study, we focus our gaze, as a case study, on two schools using in-depth interviews with its principals. These two schools were chosen as case studies because they had shown a history of carrying out documented educational change processes for at least 3 years before the pandemic. Our analytical strategy was a qualitative content analysis of a deductive–inductive nature. The results of our study can help identify key elements for the mechanisms of “Community Socio-Educational Resilience” and show that the innovative educational strategies tested by schools in the periods prior to the pandemic facilitated the generation of specific strategies for addressing problems arising from the pandemic. These strategies contributed to cushioning the increased inequality generated by the pandemic, contributing to the social sustainability of the educational and community system.

Keywords: resilience; vulnerable schools; COVID-19; culturally sensitive education; community-engaged research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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