Social Capital, Children and Young People: Implications for Practice, Policy and Research

✍ Scribed by Julie Allan (editor); Ralph Catts (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social capital, children and young people is about the relationships and networks - social capital - that children and young people have in and out of school.Social capital has become of increasing interest to policy makers but there has been little evidence of how it operates in practice. In this unique collection, the social capital of children and young people, and in one case parents and teachers, is explored in a wide range of formal and informal settings.The contributors to the book, who include academic researchers and educational professionals, provide in-depth accounts of social capital being developed and used by children and young people. They offer critical reflections on the significance of social capital and on the experiences of researching the social capital of sometimes vulnerable people.This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with how children and young people get along, get by and get on.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Social capital: fetish or civilising influence?
The Schools and Social Capital Network
About this book
Part I: Social capital and inclusion
2. Evaluating an inclusive education programme: lessons in transient social capital
Introduction
The ILN as a context for understanding transitional social capital
Study rationale
Design of the study
Findings of the study
Discussion of findings in the context of social capital
ILN outcomes and social capital: space for transitional social capital?
Reflections on the process of studying social capital within transient shared space
Implications for policy and practice
Conclusion
3. Inclusion of pupils from refugee families
Introduction
Approach to the research
Discussion
Researching social capital
Reflections on social capital as a construct
Implications for policy, practice and research
4. Social capital in the lives of young carers
Introduction
Methods
The concept of social capital for young carers
The significance of others for young carers
Young carers’ projects
Perceptions of self
Social capital in the lives of young carers
Conclusions
Implications for policy, practice and research
5. Youth club connections
Introduction
Background
The role of social capital
Methodology
Findings
Implications for practice, policy and future research
Conclusions
6. Commentary: social capital and inclusion: implications for practice
Part II: Social capital in and out of school
7. Social capital transitions of ‘Get Ready For Work’ trainees
Introduction and context of the case study
Methodology
Findings and emergent themes
Perceptions of the course
Social capital development during the course
Course outcomes and social capital
Researching social capital
Implications for policy and practice: managing transitions
8. Social capital, diversity and inclusion: lessons from one primary school
Fairforall Primary: background
Methodology
Types of social capital in Fairforall
Pupils as active citizens
Durability of capital and networks within the school
Limitations in the face of multiple deprivation
Can social capital assist greater inclusion?
Implications for policy, practice and research
9. Transitions to secondary schooling: a social capital perspective
Introduction
Previous research and policy on transition
Social capital in schools
Trust and social capital
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Implications for policy, practice and further research
10. Multiple capitals and Scottish independent schools: the (re)production of advantage
Introduction
Theoretical framing and methodology
Findings
Emergent themes
Reflections on social capital as a construct: its durability and transferability
The process of researching social capital: experiences of collaboration and capacity building
Implications for policy, practice and research: learning from SISP
11. Commentary: schools and social capital: implications for practice
Relationships matter
The importance of linking capital
Social capital, difference and diversity
Implications for practice
12. Social capital for young people in educational and social policy, practice and research
Implications for policy
Implications for practice
Implications for research
Conclusions
Index