Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools [Hardcover]

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.Chapter 1. Theories and Theorising of Belonging
PART I. Gender, Sexuality and Belonging
Chapter 2. Incidental Moments: The Paradox of Belonging in Educational Spaces
Chapter 3. Becoming and Belonging: Negotiating Non-Heteronormative Identities Online and at School
Chapter 4. Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Beyond the Mainstream
PART II. Race, Class, Citizenship and Nation
Chapter 5. I am Korean: Contested Belonging in a Multicultural Korea
Chapter 6. Young People on Asylum Seekers: The Dirty Work of Boundary Making in the Politics of Belonging
Chapter 7. Privileged Bonds: Lessons of Belonging at an Elite School
Chapter 8. Spatial, Relational and Affective Understandings of Citizenship and Belonging for Young People Today: Towards a New Conceptual Framework
Chapter 9. Equality, Citizenship and Belonging: Why is Developing an Inclusive and Caring Society so Hard?.- PART III. Places and Spaces of Belonging
Chapter 10. The Formation of a Sense of Belonging: An Analysis of Young Peoples Lives in Australian and Italian Rural Communities
Chapter 11. Exploring Spaces of Belonging through Analogies of Family: Perspectl³+