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Belonging : the science of creating connection and bridging divides
\"Astonishing lessons of social psychology that really can make the world a better place\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sense of Belonging at School and on Social Media in Adolescence: Associations with Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Maladjustment
Belongingness is a key factor in the psychological development and school adjustment of children and adolescents. Going beyond the existing literature, the present study evaluated the association between two sources of belongingness, namely sense of belonging at school (SOBAS) and on social media (SOBOSM), and both psychological maladjustment and educational achievement. Sample consisted of 698 early-to-late adolescents (52.3% female, mean age = 13.79 ± 2.09). Both SOBAS and SOBOSM showed negative direct associations with psychological maladjustment. SOBOSM showed a negative direct association with educational achievement. Social media addiction mediated the links between both SOBAS and SOBOSM and psychological maladjustment and education achievement. Overall, findings suggest that adolescents reporting high sense of belonging both at school and on social media may at lower risk for psychological maladjustment. However, adolescents reporting low SOBAS and high SOBOSM may also be a greater risk of SMA, possibly impacting their psychological health and school adjustement.
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Little sweet potato
When Little Sweet Potato gets knocked out of his garden patch, he's forced to search for a new home.
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Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation
The article argues that everyday bordering has become a major technology of control of both social diversity and discourses on diversity, in a way that threatens the convivial co-existence of pluralist societies, especially in metropolitan cities, as well as reconstructs everyday citizenship. The article begins with an outline of a theoretical and methodological framework, which explores bordering, the politics of belonging and a situated intersectional perspective for the study of the everyday. It then analyses the shift in focus of recent UK immigration legislation from the external, territorial border to the internal border, incorporating technologies of everyday bordering in which ordinary citizens are demanded to become either border-guards and/or suspected illegitimate border crossers. We illustrate our argument in the area of employment examining the impact of the requirements of the immigration legislation from the situated gazes of professional border officers, employers and employees in their bordering encounters.
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Fluidity and flexibility of \belonging\: Uses of the concept in contemporary research
Studies framing \"belonging\" as a key focus and a central concept of research have increased significantly in the 2000s. This article explores the dimensions of belonging as a scholarly concept. The investigation is based on a qualitative content analysis of articles published in academic journals covering a large number of different disciplines. The article poses and answers the following research questions: How is belonging understood and used in contemporary research? What added value does the concept bring to scholarly discussions? In the analysis, five topoi of conceptualizing belonging – spatiality, intersectionality, multiplicity, materiality, and non-belonging – were identified. After introducing the topoi, the article explores their cross-cutting dimensions, such as the emphasis on the political, emotional, and affective dimensions of belonging, and discusses key observations made from the data, such as the substantial proportion of research on minorities and \"vulnerable\" people. The analysis of the data suggests that by choosing to use the concept of belonging, scholars seek to emphasize the fluid, unfixed, and processual nature of diverse social and spatial attachments.
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Barnaby unboxed!
In a world of Perfect Pets, Barnaby is as perfect as they come. When he's brought home to be pampered and cared for by his very own little girl, life is just about perfect - until a new, even more perfect pet comes on the scene. Barnaby finds himself on a wild adventure through the city and an emotional search for his place in this world and discovers that you don't have to be perfect to find your place in the world and be loved.
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Belonging in a Disrupted Environment
Belonging presupposes a certain stability within both individuals and environments to which belonging is claimed. This stability is absent for most individuals in Africa and the actual societies they belong to. The disintegration of communities and the inability of individuals to have stable identities can be traced to the damaging effects of the colonial project. Africa's postcolonial states have failed to shirk off the effects of colonialism and have suffered the influence of some of colonialism's undesirable but lasting effects. Two of these effects are damage to individuals and communities, leaving them with no sense of connection and a permanent state of paralysis of imagination of how responsible agency can create responsive communities that evoke an authentic sense of belonging. Such a condition can be guaranteed under individual integrity aimed at achieving dignity.
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A cat named Swan
After surviving on the streets, a homeless cat discovers the joys of living with a human family.
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How the Bronfenbrenner Bio-ecological System Theory Explains the Development of Students’ Sense of Belonging to School?
The central concept of this review underscores the fact that the development of a feeling of belonging at school occurs because of different interactions between developing students and the school’s ecological environment over time. This review argues that Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-ecological Systems Theory can best explain the development of school belonging by highlighting the role of PPCT (Process, Person, Context, and Time). The process includes the interactions (proximal and distal) that occur between students and their school’s ecological systems. The person considers the active role of students in influencing their development. The context encompasses the school’s ecological systems. The time includes events and the chronological age of students. The review highlights the most important proximal practices and interactions that occur in school microsystems and play a significant role in enhancing students’ sense of belonging. Empirical, longitudinal research that focuses on the interactions of all the components of the PPCT model is recommended.
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