Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Theories and Theorising of Belonging

   • Christine Halse

   Pages 1-28

3. Gender, Sexuality and Belonging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Incidental Moments: The Paradox of Belonging in Educational Spaces

      • Emma Charlton, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison, Debbie Ollis

      Pages 31-50

   3. Becoming and Belonging: Negotiating Non-heteronormative Identities Online and at School

      • Peter Bansel

      Pages 51-75

   4. Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Beyond the Mainstream

      • Tiffany Jones

      Pages 77-89

4. Race, Class, Citizenship and Nation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. ‘I am Korean’: Contested Belonging in a ‘Multicultural’ Korea

      • Jessica Walton

      Pages 93-115

   3. Young People on Asylum Seekers: The ‘Dirty Work’ of Boundary Making in the Politics of Belonging

      • Christine Halse, Rosalyn Black, Claire Charles

      Pages 117-139

   4. Privileged Bonds: Lessons of Belonging at an Elite School

      • Adam Howard, Hoa Nguyen

      Pages 141-164

   5. Spatial, Relational and Affective Understandings of Citizenship and Belonging for Young People Today: Towards a New Conceptual Framework

      • Bronwyn E. Wood, Rosalyn Black

      Pages 165-185

   6. Equality, Citizenship and Belonging: Why Is Developing an Inclusive and Caring Society So Hard?

      • Kerry J. Kennedy

      Pages 187-199

5. Places and Spaces of Belonging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. The Formation of a Sense of Belonging: An Analysis of Young People’s Lives in Australian and Italian Rural Communities

      • Mauro Giardiello, Hernan Cuervo

      Pages 203-224

   3. Exploring Spaces of Belonging Through Analogies of ‘Family’: Perspectives and Experiences of Disengaged Young People at an Alternative School

      • Aspa Baroutsis, Martin Mills

      Pages 225-246

   4. Reflecting on Belonging, Space, and Marginalised Young People

      • Kitty te Riele

      Pages 247-259

6. Pedagogies of Belonging and Non-belonging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Pedagogies of Belonging in Literacy Classrooms and Beyond: What’s Holding Us Back?

      • Barbara Comber, Annette Woods

      Pages 263-281

   3. ‘The battle in belonging’: Pedagogies, Practice and Hypermasculinity in Boys’ Physical Education

      • Amanda Mooney, Chris Hickey

      Pages 283-304

   4. Belonging as Pedagogical, Practical and Political

      • Julie McLeod

      Pages 305-315

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of ‘belonging’ and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience ‘belonging’ (and non-belonging). It traverses diverse dimensions of identity, including gender and sexuality; race, class, nation and citizenship; and place and space. Each section includes a provocative discussion by an eminent and international youth scholar of youth, and is essential reading for anyone involved with young people and schools. This book is a crucial resource and reference for sociology of education courses at all levels as well as courses in student inclusion, equity and student well-being.

• Hyperdiversity
• Educational identity
• Liminality
• 'Fitting in'
• Boundaries
• Social institutions

• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  Christine Halse

Christine Halse is Chair Professor of Intercultural Education at The Education University of Hong Kong, China, and formerly Professor and Chair of Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She researches and writes on how individual cultural identities are formed, enacted and resisted, and what this means for teachers, schools and schooling. 

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