Higher education resilent curricula: lessons from a european project
Résumé
The vulnerability of Higher Education Institutions to unexpected crisis events was starkly illustrated by the Covid-19 crisis. However, certain institutions fared better than others as they were able to mobilize resilience capacities and capabilities which reinforced their ability to rapidly adapt to and cope with the crisis. The objectives of this study therefore are to picture what resilience is from the perspective of HEIs and to delineate what a resilient curriculum is. A questionnaire consisting of 23 questions, both quantitative and qualitative was sent to university members of a European project in April 2024. Several drivers of curriculum resilience deduced from the literature were tested on a numerical scale from 1 to 5 and the analysis of the 35 responses demonstrated that all drivers significantly contributed to resilience. The quantitative insights were enriched by characterizing the properties of a resilient
curriculum based on textual feedback garnered from the questionnaire’s open questions.