Sustaining educator resilience is increasingly important in transitional societies which have a higher risk for dysfunction from coping with adjustments to emerging organisational practices with no local precedent. This would be the case for South African schools that have weathered transition in their organisational climate the past two decades. Our critical review aimed to survey the evidence on educator resilience within the school setting to inform the South African education system. For this critical review, we searched Business Insights – Essentials; Expanded Academic ASAP; PsycINFO; Academic Search Premier; OAlster; ERIC; Regional Business News; MasterFILE Premier; Teacher Reference Center; Newspaper Source; SocINDEX with Full Text; Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Africa-Wide Information; and Google Scholar for publications on school educator resilience since 2008. We included scientific literature that focused on organisational resilience within the school context by reviewing certain keywords (title, abstract, and/or full text). Conference proceedings and studies published in other languages than English were excluded. The search initially yielded 740 research studies of which 12 were finally extracted for thematic analysis. Four main themes emerged: importance of leadership; improving school climate/culture; creating a supportive work environment; and ethics of care. The findings suggest a circular model for school organisational resilience premised in interdependent relationships between each of the extracted themes. Future studies should seek to apply this conceptual model to study education resilience in South African schools prior to wider adoption and dissemination.

在没有本地先例的适应新出现的组织实践的适应措施中，功能障碍风险更高的转型社会中，维持教育者的应变能力变得越来越重要。在过去的二十年里，经历过组织气候转变的南非学校就是这种情况。我们的批判性审查旨在调查学校环境中有关教育者适应能力的证据，以为南非教育系统提供信息。对于此重要评论，我们搜索了Business Insights – Essentials；尽快扩大学术范围；PsycINFO; 学术搜索总理；OAlster；ERIC；区域商业新闻；MasterFILE Premier；教师参考中心；报纸来源；具有全文本的SocINDEX；健康来源–护理/学术版；图书馆，情报科学与技术文摘；全非洲信息；以及Google Scholar自2008年以来在学校教育者抗逆性方面的出版物。我们纳入了一些科学文献，这些科学文献通过审查某些关键字（标题，摘要和/或全文）来关注学校环境中的组织抗逆性。会议录和以英语以外的其他语言出版的研究不包括在内。该搜索最初产生了740项研究，最终提取了12项用于主题分析。出现了四个主要主题：领导的重要性；改善学校的气候/文化；创造一个支持性的工作环境；和护理伦理。研究结果提出了一个以学校组织弹性为基础的循环模型，前提是每个提取的主题之间都具有相互依存的关系。