The current literature on ‘sense of belonging’ spans a number disciplines, with no apparent consensus definition between these, complicated by the fact that sense belonging is temporal and context-sensitive (such as during COVID-19). In particular, closer look at how students define needed from an up-to-date perspective to help them feel more connected faculty/campus improve their wellbeing men...

A broad body of literature outlines the interventions to support underrepresented and minoritized students’ inclusion sense belonging into university contexts. In this paper, we explore how two first-generation students color articulate a critical through their reflections as student researchers in Apprenticeship Community-Engaged Research or (H)ACER program at University California, Santa Cruz...

A sense of belonging is an integral feature of an online community of learners (OCL). This article explores the ways in which digital technologies in an online teacher education programme can facilitate social presence and in turn nurture a sense of belonging in an OCL. A sense of belonging can lower attrition rates in distance programmes that attract learners who are marginalised from on campu...

looking at the structure of the cities, especially older parts of the city, it is seen that most of the urban public parts and elements are constructed not with any reliance on state resources and credits, but based on the consecration systems and public investments. added to the sublime religious, social and economic values latent in the consecration culture, its impact in creating identity an...