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The Ties That Bind: How Social Capital Is Forged and Forfeited in Teacher Communities
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Bridwell-Mitchell, E. N.; Cooc, North – Educational Researcher, 2016
The effects of social capital on school improvement make it important to understand how teachers forge, maintain, or forfeit collegial relationships. Two common explanations focused on formal organizational features and individual characteristics do not address how social capital accrues from informal dynamics of teachers' interactions in…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Collegiality