Teachers as social capital agents: an exploratory study from Brazil

Networking and the development of professionals: Beginning teachers building social capital

“…Social capital is a useful notion to explain the benefits BTs can accrue from networking (Coleman, 1988;Schuller & Field, 1998;Szreter, 2000) and has already been used to help understand BTs' development as professionals (Baker-Doyle & Yoon, 2011;Chattopadhay, 2013;Maier & Youngs, 2009). Social capital theory highlights paying attention to how mutual respect and trust are developed between individuals to enable goals to be pursued (Portes, 1998;.…”

Near and Far Transfer in South Korean Teacher Education: The Moderated Mediation Effects of Social Capital and Intensive Reflection

“…As mentioned above, the network forms the core of social capital and functions in the social organization to produce mutual benefits (Almager, 2015). It is additionally emphasized that institutions (Chattopadhay, 2013; Modipane & Themane, 2014), societies and individuals (Almager, 2015), and individuals and others (Belfi et al, 2015; Brimhall, 2014; Enai, 2014; Koebley, 2013; Minckler, 2014) can designate the elemental reasons for which the networks are facilitated. Consequently, social capital denotes the added value formed by networks between an individual and others or institutions.…”