Measuring social capital among youth: applications in environmental education

摘要: Although critiqued for circular reasoning and lack of definitional analytic clarity, social capital has garnered widespread interest in two areas relevant to environmental education (EE): the impact family community-level on positive youth development fostering collective action manage natural resources. EE is normally considered its value relative outcomes or capital, intergenerational, community, other approaches may also foster capital. Drawing Putnam’s definition which emphasizes civic engagement, we developed tested reliability a survey measure cognitive structural attributes among youth. We conclude that although several our instrument are useful use with aged 10–18 years contexts, much more work needs be done conceptualizing developing measures to...