Abstract
Drawing on geographies of education, this chapter explores the nature of the school world and its connective environs (school, locality, home space) that make/shape social and spatial friendship networks which can be either socially inclusive or exclusive. In this chapter the focus is on the ways in which primary school worlds work as particularly intense sites of encounter, sociality and friendship-making. In this context schools provide an environment in which adult friendships and friendship networks can emerge, generated from the friendships of children themselves and the connective ways schools can converge personal and local geographies. In socially and ethnically diverse primary school settings, school-based social relationships can extend encounters with difference within schools into the wider social spaces of localities as well as into intimate geographies of home space.
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As noted in chapter 3 we use ‘intermediate class’ to describe families where occupations combine aspects from both the professional middle classes, sometimes known as the ‘service class,’ and those with a labour contract (working class routine jobs). In this case Lorna is working temporarily as a school meals supervisor and her partner is self employed as a craftsman/artist. Nadeem cited below, works in retail and his partner is an at home mother.
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Vincent, C., Neal, S., Iqbal, H. (2018). Extended Social and Spatial Encounters in Primary School Worlds. In: Friendship and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73001-1_6
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