Abstract:

Disasters are usually unexpected, sometimes sudden, and with no prior experience with such events, response becomes slow, disjointed, and haphazard. Disease outbreaks can be particularly debilitating to economies, social systems, and healthcare systems, especially for large and difficult to treat outbreaks. Authorities struggle to understand and contain the disease, while people become afraid and paranoid at the same time; afraid of getting infection while being forced to continue the daily struggles of life to cater to bills and fulfill personal, family, social, and national/ religious obligations. Pandemics make the situation even more challenging; large scale infectious disease outbreaks are termed pandemics and they increase morbidity and mortality cases over a wide area (geographic), bringing with it serious and significant social economic, and political disruptions. Some kinds of disruptions include travel and social disruptions, disruption to religious and educational activities; businesses and facilities such as malls become closed. This paper seeks to understand, through an empirical study, the challenges faced by education leaders during pandemics, specifically the coronavirus pandemic currently gripping the world, leaving in its wake severe social, political, and economic disruptions and fatalities. The proposed overall framework for this research is an exploratory framework; this is a type of research that is done preliminarily to clarify the nature of challenge or problem to be solved.

Keywords:

Challenges, Educational Leadership, Coronavirus Disease 2019.