Download or read book Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School written by Seth Brown and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these ‘entanglements’ need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of particular places, and the ways in which these ecologies shape the possibilities of young people engaging productively in the middle years. Drawing on extensive qualitative data from an outer-urban metropolitan context, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, education and policy studies.