Civic Capital Models: Comparison of Primary and Secondary Students in the Singapore Education System

Abstract

This inquiry interrogates linkages between civic capital broken down into beliefs, dispositions and agency with the notion of the school as a civic community. Using data generated from a longitudinal study on a stratified random sample of two cohorts of students belonging to the primary and secondary levels of the Singapore education system, this paper attempts to establish meaningful relationships between the students' conceptions and practices of civic capital with their perceptions of an active civic community in school.