Belonging - An area of study

Belonging - an area of study provides a wide-ranging textual study of facets of the concept of belonging, with emphasis on:

• defining and identifying conceptual meaning
• examining the process of representing and communicating meaning within texts
• evaluating textual form, structure and language
• interpretation of conceptual links between texts.

The text provides detailed analysis, questions and exercises for a broad range of 'belonging' texts. deconstruction of core themes, techniques and stylistic methods provides teachers and students with relevant information that will help them comprehend the different ways in which composers have explored the many complex ideas associated with belonging or not belonging, inclusivity and non-exclusivity, social acceptance or alienation:

• suggestions and strategies for dealing with the prescribed texts, including detailed analysis,
• links to the area of study and quotable quotes
• photocopiable student pages with questions focussing on what is being said and how it is being said
• essay questions and response tasks
• clear references to the prescribed texts to make it easy to locate relevant extracts
• examples
• guidelines for assessment and sample student essays