Teaching Through Crisis: ELT Educators’ Resilience After the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Research, cilt.9, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)

The purpose of the present study is to examine the professional resilience of instructors working at

Mustafa Kemal University in Hatay, the city most devastated by the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes in

Türkiye, which are described as the Disaster of the Century, and contributes to the discussions on teacher

resilience in higher education institutions by understanding how instructors continue their professions in

such a crisis situation. The study was designed as a qualitative study. The sample of the study was six

lecturers and this sample was selected using the convenience sampling method. Semi-structured

interviews were used as data collection tools and the data were analysed using thematic analysis method.

As a result of the study, instructors experienced psychological, emotional, physical, housing problems and

lack of hardware during the post-disaster teaching period, but despite these difficulties, they developed

teaching resilience.