Impact of teachers’ social capital on their professional performance: A narrative inquiry

Muhammad Rafiq; Abdul Ghaffar; Amir Zaman

doi:10.47264/idea.lassij/5.1.1

Authors

Muhammad Rafiq Department of Education, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan.
Abdul Ghaffar Department of Education, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan.
Amir Zaman Department of Education, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.lassij/5.1.1

Keywords:

Social Capital, Dimensions of Social Capital, Social Capital in Education, Social Capital in School, Teachers’ Social Capital, Teachers’ Professional Performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of social capital on teachers’ professional performance. The participants were ten male subject specialists from government higher secondary schools of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The method of data collection was one-on-one in person through in-depth interview. Teachers’ narratives showed that teachers who had stronger social capital performed better their others. Performance of the teachers who showed high level of participation and willingness were those with high social capital. They were more interested in curricular and co-curricular activities that enhanced their professional performance. There is a strong bond of good relationship between teachers and students that was an efficient solution to meet the different needs of a classroom collectively as well as individual students, which impacts positively on students’ learning and teachers’ performance. There was no contribution from parents for success of the students. Owing to financial constraints, the parents were more inclined to engage their children for earning and part time job. Moreover, lack of awareness, jobless white collars in their surroundings, labouring and earning livelihood far away from home are the reasons that they take negligible interest in contributing to the success of their children.

References

Adeyemi, T. (2010). The supply of science teachers to secondary schools in Ondo state, Nigeria: a critical analysis. African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.4314/ajesms.v7i1.68915 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4314/ajesms.v7i1.68915

Acar, E. (2011). Effects of social capital on academic success: a narrative synthesis. Educational Research and Reviews, 6(6), 456-461. https://doi.org/10.5897/ERR.9000134

Adams, R. (2008). Review of Riessman (2008): Narrative methods for the human sciences. Narrative Inquiry, 18(2), 415-418. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18.2.13ada DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18.2.13ada

Aldrich, D. P., & Meyer, M. A. (2014). Social capital and community resilience. American Behavioural Scientist, 59(2), 254-269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764214550299 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764214550299

Akram, T., Lei, S., Hussain, S. T., Haider, M. J., & Akram, M. W. (2016). Does relational leadership generate organizational social capital? a case of exploring the effect of relational leadership on organizational social capital in China. Future Business Journal, 2(2), 116-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbj.2016.06.001 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbj.2016.06.001

Andrews, R. (2010). Organizational social capital, structure and performance. Human Relations, 63(5), 583-608. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726709342931 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726709342931

Aslandogan, Y. A., & Cetin, M. (2007). The philosophy of Gulen in thought and practice. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472552693.0006

Bartoli, A., & Blatrix, C. (2015). Management dans les organisations publiques, Dunod. Management international, 13(4), 135. https://doi.org/10.7202/038593ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/038593ar

Bolton, D. J. (2011). Social capital in rural southwest Kansas. Kansas State University. 3(5). https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.7416 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.7416

Bos-Nehles, A. C., Van Riemsdijk, M. J., & Kees Looise, J. (2013). Employee perceptions of line management performance: applying the AMO theory to explain the effectiveness of line managers' HRM implementation. Human Resource Management, 52(6), 861-877. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21578 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21578

Campbell, C. (2020). Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings. Social Science & Medicine, 257, 112153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.004 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.004

Cao, Q., Lu, Y., Dong, D., Tang, Z., & Li, Y. (2013). The roles of bridging and bonding in social media communities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(8), 1671-1681. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22866 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22866

Carey, S., Lawson, B., & Krause, D. R. (2010). Social capital configuration, legal bonds and performance in buyer–supplier relationships. Journal of Operations Management, 29(4), 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2010.08.003 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2010.08.003

Cetin, M. (2007). The Gulen Movement: its nature and identity. Paper presented at the conference, Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement. University of London. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472552693.0006 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472552693.0006

Coburn, C. E., & Russell, J. L. (2008). District policy and teachers’ social networks. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 30(3), 203-235. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373708321829 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373708321829

Claridge, T. (2018, January 20). Structural, cognitive, and relational social capital. Social Capital Research. https://www.socialcapitalresearch.com/structural-cognitive-relational-social-capital/

Chai, N. (2009). Sustainability balanced scorecard of SPES. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, 81-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3012-2_4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3012-2_4

Chisholm, J. S., Quinlivan, J. A., Petersen, R. W., & Coall, D. A. (2005). Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment, and expected lifespan. Human Nature, 16(3), 233-265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-005-1009-0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-005-1009-0

Clandinin, D. J. (2006). Narrative inquiry: A methodology for studying lived experience. Research Studies in Music Education, 27(1), 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103x060270010301 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X060270010301

Creswell, J. D. (2017). Mindfulness interventions. Annual Review of Psychology, 68(1), 491-516. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-042716-051139 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-042716-051139

Daly, A. J., Liou, Y., & Der-Martirosian, C. (2020). A capital idea: Exploring the relationship between human and social capital and student achievement in schools. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 6(1), 7-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-10-2020-0082 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-10-2020-0082

Daykin, N., Mansfield, L., Meads, C., Gray, K., Golding, A., Tomlinson, A., & Victor, C. (2020). The role of social capital in participatory arts for wellbeing: Findings from a qualitative systematic review. Arts & Health, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2020.1802605 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2020.1802605

Deal, T. E., Purinton, T., & Waetjen, D. C. (2008). Making sense of social networks in schools. Corwin Press. https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/book/making-sense-social-networks-schools

Dika, S. L., & Singh, K. (2002). Applications of social capital in educational literature: A critical synthesis. Review of Educational Research, 72(1), 31-60. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543072001031 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543072001031

Dufur, M. J., Parcel, T. L., & Troutman, K. P. (2013). Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 31, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2012.08.002 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2012.08.002

Grootaert, C., Narayan, D., Jones, V. N., & Woolcock, M. (2004). Measuring social capital: An integrated questionnaire. World Bank Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5661-5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5661-5

Hargreaves, A., & Fullan, M. (2012). Professional capital: transforming teaching in every school. Teachers College Press.

Hunt, R. A., & Aslandogan, Y. A. (2007). Muslim Citizens of the globalized world. contributions of the Gülen Movement. Tughra Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472552693.0006 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472552693.0006

Inkpen, A. C., & Tsang, E. W. (2005). Social capital, networks, and knowledge transfer. Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 146-165. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2005.15281445 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2005.15281445

Johnson, W., Lustick, D., & Kim, M. (2011). Teacher professional learning as the growth of social capital. Current Issues in Education, 14(3). https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/781

Kuncoro, T., & Dardiri, A. (2017). Teacher performance and work environment in the instructional process in vocational school. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5003526 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5003526

Moolenaar, N. M., & Sleegers, P. J. (2015). The networked principal: Examining principals’ social relationships and transformational leadership in school and district networks. Journal of Educational Administration, 53(1), 8-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/jea-02-2014-0031 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-02-2014-0031

Parcel, T. L., Dufur, M. J., & Cornell Zito, R. (2010). undefined. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(4), 828-846. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00733.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00733.x

Penuel, W., Fishman, B. J., Gallagher, L. P., Korbak, C., & Lopez-Prado, B. (2009). Is alignment enough? Investigating the effects of state policies and professional development on science curriculum implementation. Science Education, 93(4), 656-677. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20321 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20321

Pil, F. K., & Leana, C. (2009). Applying organizational research to public school reform: The effects of teacher human and social capital on student performance. Academy of Management Journal, 52(6), 1101-1124. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.47084647 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.47084647

Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling alone. Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '00. https://doi.org/10.1145/358916.361990 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/358916.361990

Rao, D. (2003). Job satisfaction of school teachers. Discovery.

Riaz, M. N. (2000). Student evaluation of university teaching quality: Analysis of a teacher's rating scale for a sample of university students. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 107-117.

Riessman, C. K. (2007). Narrative methods for the human sciences. Sage.

Shahidul, S. M., Karim, A. H., & Mustari, S. (2015). Social capital and educational aspiration of students: Does family social capital affect more compared to school social capital? International Education Studies, 8(12), 255. https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v8n12p255 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v8n12p255

Shiell, A., Hawe, P., & Kavanagh, S. (2020). Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions. Social Science & Medicine, 257, 111930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.006 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.006

Sil, S. (2007). Parent-School Partnerships: Forked Roads to College Access. School Community Journal, 17(1), 113-128.

Waithaka, E. N. (2014). Family capital: Conceptual model to unpack the intergenerational transfer of advantage in transitions to adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24(3), 471-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12119 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12119

Webster, L. (2007). Using narrative inquiry as a research method. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203946268 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203946268

Yoon, S., & Lee, E. (2019). Social and psychological determinants of value Co-creation behavior for South Korean firms. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 31(1), 14-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/apjml-01-2018-0017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-01-2018-0017