Social Capital in Urban and Rural Settings: The Role of School Leadership

• In Event: Perspectives on Social Capital in K–12 and Higher Educational Contexts

Abstract

This paper focuses on the need to assume responsibility for leveraging internal and external resources as well as human and fiscal resources within urban and rural school settings. Such leveraging serves to ensure equity in education and access to academic and social supports for every student, regardless of a school district’s tax base. The paper highlights the social and institutional resources or rather, social capital, needed by school administrators to educate students served by urban and rural school systems. Further, the paper offers insights into the commonalities and disparities in the evaluable capital of urban and rural school contexts and how the management of these specified resources need to be pursued.

Authors

• Johnoson Crutchfield, The University of Mississippi - Oxford

• Jandel Crutchfield, The University of Mississippi - Oxford