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• 1.1 Healy - the other side of belonging

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• What is meant with "the other side of belonging"?

  People have a need to belong to something. The other side is a failure to belong and the resulting damage that might occur

• What are the two ways in which there can be failure to belong?

  Not-belonging = the loss of a sense of belonging
  Unbelonging = the removal of membership belonging

• What kind of special roles do schools play in the forming of belonging?

  They shape normative values and beliefs and are often charged with transmitting these principles to generations. They contribute to the identity-forming bonds needed by individuals, often through citizenship

• What is the view of Healy regarding people and stories?

  People are story-teller and constantly tell stories about who we are and how we got where we are. We change the stories when we respond to the facility of life. We see ourselves therefore as an integral part of a system

• What are the two ways in which people can belong according to the political strand?

  A personal centimate of place attachment and an official public-oriented formal structure of membership, for instance: citizenship

• How was the action of Colin Kaepernick in 2016 by feeling for the national anthem for BLM so powerful in terms of belonging?

  It is a political protest, because national anthems is the most important way of belonging, to show that he could act as an individual.

• What are the three interpretations of this action of Kaepernick in terms of not-belonging?

  1. A person may see itself as deeply bonded to the polity (respect for the USA and the flag etc.), but see no sense in associating with fellow citizens
  2. The group may see the person as belonging, but this person sees itself treated as if it doesn't, because the treatment is different.
  3. The group sees the person not as belonging, neither does the person (which strengthens vice versa).

• What can enlarge the feeling of absence?

  In some of the situations, the person is fine with the situation. However, when they are ignored, there can be a 'tyranny of the majority'

• What was thought to be enough to tackle unbelonging at schools?

  Strong school ethos combined with some form of citizenship education or values programme

• What has changed over the years in political sense of belonging?

  In a world of increasing movements, attempts by governments to manage this movement means that belonging is open to retraction, forcing some into unbelonging.