Qualitative case study reveals how school principals navigate bureaucratic barriers and overlapping crises via local ties, highlighting the limits of centralized crisis management.
Key Points
To examine how school principals enact leadership during overlapping crises of forced migration and natural disaster within a highly centralized education system.
Qualitative case study design conducted in Hatay, Türkiye, following the 6 February 2023 earthquakes.
Data collected via the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method and evaluated using critical thematic and contrapuntal analysis.
Principals sustained educational access and community aid by navigating institutional uncertainty, bureaucratic constraints, and conflicting forms of knowledge through locally embedded relationships.
Centralized accountability frameworks and gendered power relations persisted throughout the disaster, reproducing structural inequalities despite local leadership efforts.