5 Essentials in Building Social Capital (MyWays Report 4)
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Today’s learners face a rapidly changing world that demands far different skills than were needed in the past. We also know much more about how student learning actually happens and what supports high-quality learning experiences. Our collective future depends on how well young people prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 21st-century life.
This report summarizes the close connection between opportunities and relationships. While social capital is traditionally weak among young people in general, growing class segregation is creating a social capital crisis for less advantaged students. A key part of the wayfinding decade is securing social support, developmental relationships, and connections to resources through five types of social capital: Caring Friends & Adults, Near-Peers & Role Models, Mentors & Coaches, Networks & Weak Ties, and Resources & Connectors. (October 2017, 5.5MB)
Report 4 is the fourth of five reports in Part A of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part A, “Adolescence in an Age of Accelerations,” analyzes the real-world changes and conditions that are most acutely impacting young people and outlines key developmental tasks of the adolescent years.
The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org