Measuring how we're doing
We all agree on the necessity of creating safe and supportive school communities – places where culture is accepted, diversity is valued, greater safety for everyone thrives and bullying, harassment, discrimination and violence do not exist.
Are such school communities possible? How can we tell how close we are to achieving a safe and supportive school environment?
Eva Cox (1998) discusses how to identify and measure social capital – those social processes, relationships and other subjective aspects that create social cohesion and feelings of wellbeing and safety in our society and schools.
Social capital is something that is located in the interactions and spaces between people during everyday life. It is shared rather than owned – and it increases with use.
Cox recommends that to measure social capital we need to develop interpersonal and organisational measures of relationships such as the levels of trust and respect that exist between individuals and groups that are essential to our quality of life and wellbeing.
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