Summary: A Sense Of Belonging

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tudents in an urban education setting are not asked, but rather given the burden to see, experience, cope, and live with outside factors, such as crime, violence, poverty, homelessness, and deaths while trying to excel academically, emotionally, and socially at school and in their communities. When looking at educational statistics in the United States, we see low achievement and graduation scores for urban students, which in this study, are Latinx and Black students. A sense of belonging is important in urban school settings, for they, at times, are a safer space for students. At the same time, if students do not feel welcomed or feel a sense of belonging, lack of engagement and participation will produce negative behavior, low scores, and school suspensions for urban education students. …show more content…
When examining how humans create relationships that lead to forming community and a sense of belonging, we must look at how these relationships form. Any ultimate analysis of human, interpersonal relationships (e.g., friendship, marriage, etc.) will show (1) that basic needs can be satisfied only interpersonally, and (2) that the satisfactions of these needs are precisely the basic therapeutic medicines, namely, the giving of safety, love, belongingness, feeling of worth, and self-esteem (Maslow, 1954). The articles, books, and journals read when researching how school leaders and teachers measure motivation and outcomes of urban education schools through the lense of creating a sense of belonging, can be placed in three themes: Sense of Belonging, Endurance and Urban