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Recreating social capital: intergenerational programmes and bridging networks
— an English model - phase 1 | | Author(s) | Norma V Raynes, Barbara Rawlings |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 2, no 1, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 7-28 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Citizenship ; Social interaction ; Education ; Schools ; Pilot ; Evaluation ; England. |
| Annotation | This paper describes the establishment of a pilot neighbourhood-based intergenerational programme and its evaluation in one town in England. It sets this in both the context of English intergenerational programmes involving schools and of English social policy. The latter is currently influenced by Putnam's concept of social capital, which refers to "connectedness among individuals' social networks and the norms and reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them". This paper therefore argues that such programmes of all kinds are likely to be useful contributions to the development of social capital. It reports how the evaluation of the pilot has led to the refinement of the original model. The pilot highlighted the need for more systematic measures of the process and outcomes, including the project's contribution to development of social capital. The revised model is being implemented in a number of contrasting neighbourhoods, and will be evaluated in both outcome and process terms. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040928207 A |
| Classmark | IKC: TMA: V: V3: 4UC: 4C: 82 |
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