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Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School

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The chapter engages with the extensive research literature on young people and belonging—in schools, in communities, as members of an ethnic or religious group, as part of a collective somewhere, doing something. Brown, Kelly and Phillips draw on research undertaken in Melbourne, to discuss the ways in which school culture, school networks and ideas about resilience intersect in complex ways to shape young people’s belonging. The chapter explores ‘the trouble’ with the emergence of the concept of belonging as a means to understand and explain young people’s engagement in the middle years of schooling, and the related movement in policy and educational discourses from thinking about young people at-risk, to thinking about, and being concerned with young people’s resilience.

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    This section draws on aspects of Kelly (2018).

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Brown, S., Kelly, P., Phillips, S.K. (2020). Belonging. In: Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52302-2_3

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