Abstract:In the late twentieth century, educational researchers and theorists began studying “social capital” with regard to its influence on educational attainment and success. School administrators, scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders are presently searching for ways to create and cultivate social capital between families, schools, and communities. Looking to the past offers glimpses of social capital’s power, both positive and negative, in education. The examination of the common school era in the latter half of the nineteenth century merits greater scrutiny in this respect. In considering the effects of social capital within education in this period, the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, including her Little House series and her unpublished Pioneer Girl, provide a rich source of study. Her experiences as both a student and teacher during this era provide insight into the positive and negative results of social capital in the educative process. Her works can guide us today in thinking about the spectrum of effects of social capital in education.

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草原上的小学校：劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德作品中对社会资本的描绘

摘要：20 世纪后期，教育研究者和理论家开始研究“社会资本”对教育成就和成功的影响。学校管理人员、学者、政策制定者和其他利益相关者目前正在寻找在家庭、学校和社区之间创造和培养社会资本的方法。回顾过去，可以瞥见社会资本在教育中的力量，无论是积极的还是消极的。在这方面，对 19 世纪下半叶的普通学校时代的考察值得更仔细地审视。考虑到这一时期社会资本对教育的影响，劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德的作品，包括她的小房子系列和她未出版的先锋女孩，提供了丰富的研究来源。她在这个时代作为学生和教师的经历提供了对社会资本在教育过程中的积极和消极结果的洞察。她的作品可以指导我们今天思考社会资本在教育中的影响范围。