Research On The Exploitation And Using Of Middle And Elementary Schools' Social Capital

The middle and elementary schools' social capital is one kind of intangible capital form that is different from the material capital (school establishments, education funds and so on), the human capital (teachers). The reality indicated that, the middle and elementary schools' social capital has already played important role in many aspects such as supplementing the insufficiency of other capitals, providing the sufficient resources for the school, providing more opportunities of aid for students, sharing resources to avoid the building redundant project, saves the transaction cost, enhancing the school efficiency, and so on. However, the school social capital is neglected for a long time because of many reasons such as its invisiblity, and it has not been exploited fully or used effectively. By investigation and study, it is discovered that there several big barriers in the exploiting and using of school social capital: Lacking in the understanding foundation - error of understanding, lack the consciousness to exploit and use; Lacking in the safeguard - system safeguard, internal support safeguard as well as the continuous safeguard; Lacking in the standard and the restraint; Lacking in the effective method of evaluation. These barriers enable the school leaders cannot take the initiative to exploit and use the school social capital, a set of good mechanism has not been formed. It results in the serious waste that middle and elementary schools' social capital still is latent, and has not fully display it's vital roles which should have in the school.Therefore, the effective way to exploit and use the middle and elementary schools' social capital is constructing a set of good mechanism of exploiting and use. Beginning from the development mechanism, the system safeguard mechanism, the appraisal mechanism, the inspector general mechanism, we should exploit the latent social capital fully and use it effectively, make it play the important role in many aspects of schooling as fully as possible, to provide the sufficient resources for the school education. Thus, forms the supplementary interaction circulation of the social capital, the material capital and the human capital, to impel production and development of schools.