The role of social work in building educational resilience in the new normal

Background: The pandemic has greatly affected education worldwide, and many students do not have access to digital tools as most people live in places like tribal and rural areas in India. Moving from regular school classes to online learning has created significant educational differences and has even affected the right to education. The pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities and systemic deficiencies within the classical education system, exacerbated by soc-economic disparities, among students from tribal and rural areas compared to urban of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, addressing the difficulties and fostering resilience highlights social work intervention in educational settings. Objectives: The study evaluates and analyses technological strategies to help schools stay strong and considers how social work intervention could help with education that prepares for the future. Methodology: The researcher randomly selected a sample of 320 respondents. The sample size remains calculated using the formula 'n' student beneficiaries is n= z2*p q /d2 (n= desired sample size, z= normal standard deviation, p= proportion in target population, d= absolute precision or accuracy). It remains absolute precision using various statistical methods like ANOVA, exploratory data analysis (EDA), chi-square tests, correlations, and descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, box plots, histograms, mean plots and Q-Q plots) were employed to analyse the data. Findings: The findings indicate that the rapid pace of technological change in educational institutions near Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, has created a critical need for bridging traditional and contemporary teaching methodologies, ensuring sustainable and impactful educational innovation and digitization of learning, where social work interventions remain essential in educational settings.