Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions
Abstract
:1. Introduction and Context
2. Accountability in Alternative Provisions
3. Social Capital: Conceptualising Evaluation beyond Individual Outcomes
4. The Social Benefits of APs: Tensions and Challenges
5. Avoiding the Discriminate Value of Social Capital in APs—Practical Considerations
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Type of Capital | Social Capital in AP Settings | Effects on Children |
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Bonding capital: High trust, belonging and reciprocity. | The support, guidance, and information a child receives from peers and AP staff: teacher/peer expectation. An example may be the existence of internal (and small) study groups or individual activities. | Free exchange of information and skills; strong influence on identity formation; poor access to new knowledge but high trust placed in information received from peers/staff. |
Bridging capital: Open networks, exemplified by shared norms, goals and diverse memberships, but more limited reciprocity. | Inter (peer and professional) group support. Membership of internal (sports) clubs and engagements with a range of AP-related services (youth or peer mentoring services, individual or group-based counselling, careers adviser). | Free exchange of a variety of ideas, in group skills/between groups; potential resources for identity renewal; generalised trust in group knowledge; and relationships with those within the education system is context dependent. |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleJohnston, Craig, and Tara Nolty. 2023. "Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions" Youth 3, no. 4: 1183-1193. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3040075