Commentary on Chapter 6: Questioning Schools: The Role of Belonging in Shaping Practice

Abstract

An important feature of this response is to consider directly the extent to which childhood studies offers an insight, here through the notion of belonging, that can have practical application in the way in which we come to make sense of, in this case, children’s school experience and the practices that we as adults might employ in this space. The relevance of this is connected to the growing concern over levels of wellbeing in school. Indeed, this section is offered as a self-written response to the previous chapter as it draws off another piece of related research.