A capital theory of school effectiveness and improvement: An article review

Abstract

Because of the considerable concentration on the relevance of education in society and, possibly, global development, it has become a thriving area of investigation and implementation that is gaining even more attention. Above all, scholars and practitioners must help to educate one another. This article review is intended to describe Hargreaves’s theory of school effectiveness and improvement focusing on 4 master concepts: outcomes (cognitive and moral) linked to curriculum (formal or hidden); leverage (innovation and evidence-based practice) linked to teaching (didactic and modeling), productive capacity (knowledge transfer and knowledge creation) connected to gaining knowledge (formal or informal), and social capital (trust and networks) linked to learning (formal or informal) (academic or moral). With this, concepts are meaningless unless they are properly implemented, or are closest to being put into effect.