ERIC Number: EJ1080841
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
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A Pedagogy of Belonging: Troubling Encounters with Ethnic and Religious Difference
Edgeworth, Kathryn; Santoro, Ninetta
Cambridge Journal of Education, v45 n4 p415-426 2015
Understanding the construction of belonging, and how unbelonging might be troubled, is critical work. For schools in many parts of the world one of the many challenges of globalisation is the task of teaching with, and for, ethnic and cultural diversity. This paper examines the exclusionary practices of teaching that construct ethnic and religious minority students in states of unbelonging. These practices are due, in part, to teachers' failure to "really" know their students. Alongside this argument, discourses of belonging in rural schools that speak to possibilities for everyday place-sharing for ethnic and religious minority students are examined. Simple and common moments of mutual recognition and understanding speak to the possibilities for belonging that are opened up in everyday relations of knowing. The implications of these ideas for teachers and teacher education in what is framed as a "pedagogy of belonging" are considered.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethnic Groups, Religious Cultural Groups, Minority Group Students, Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Vignettes, Physical Education, Muslims, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Cultural Differences, Self Concept, Social Isolation, Semi Structured Interviews, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Integration
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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