The Interaction Between The Place And Person 's Sense Of Well Being

Finding a sense of belonging to a place can influence an individual’s sense of acceptance within the community and culture or opposingly can enhance their sense of isolation and alienation from society.This is reflected through Raimond Gaita’s memoir Romulus My Father and Manfred Jurgensen’s poem Bonegilla 1916 through extensive literary devices.We learn individuals perceptions of place and their ability to adjust to new places governs their ability to belong and feel at home with new cultures.

When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of The Power of Place: Outside In, Inside Out, and Synchrony. The book opens doors previously unnoticed about psychological ecology. From reading the book one learns that settings influence behavior more than the personalities of most people.

v. When Educators arrange the space so that small groups of children can play and talk without undue distraction from children engaged in other activities the environment supports positive relationships.

All learning and exploring is positive and nurturing. The environment needs to encourage children’s development. It’s how children feel positive and confident about their sense of self and their individual accomplishments. Their space needs to provide a balance of challenge, risk and safety.

One strategy provided is to create “Safe Place” in the class where children can feel safe and release their emotions (Hoffman, Hutchinson & Reiss, 2009, p. 37). These Safe Place can have objects such as stress balls to help relieve anxiety. Similarly, teachers can establish a “We Care” area, where children can create letters for their friend. Ultimately, this would help support students’ social expression. These two strategies would be appropriate for preschoolers and K-3 setting. However, it would not be appropriate for infants nor toddlers because it is difficult for them to comprehend what to do in the Safe Place nor in the We Care

It is my hope that through my picture book, I can others how easily how sense of belonging may be affected by social repression, fear and

In her short memoir ‘Sanctuary of School’ Lynda Barry remembers her early childhood years at home, feeling somewhat invisible. Growing up in a rather crowded home, which was occupied by relatives who would come and go, and parents who spent the late hours of the evening fighting over shortage of money, Barry and her brother grew accustomed to such a lifestyle. Learning to make the best out of this, the siblings would lay in the living room and watch television until the morning crept in. Feeling such anxiety to rush to school, Barry would make her way there lifelessly, as the sun would slowly rise. While waiting on the playground before making her way in, young Barry states “In a perfect world my absence at home would not have gone unnoticed.”

The feeling of belonging is not a necessity that everybody needs but is a common feeling that most people believe to be important in their lives if they want to be happy. People believe the feeling to belong helps them to be happy because if they feel like they belong somewhere they will feel safer and more confident when in that place. The place people feel like they belong in does not have to be a physical place like a house or a town/city but can also be a social place or in some ways an emotional place. An example of these would be a group of close friends or a person's home although a home is also a physical place it varies depending on the person because of the emotional feelings attached to that place are different so it could be considered an emotional place for someone to

The open and close of the eyelids, the flick of a light, the beat of a heart and our lungs expanding are things we do without even trying. We simply don’t pay attention to them. Just like in “The Sanctuary of School,” Barry’s parents muted her from reality and peripheral view; I muted the outside world. She grew up in a reality where warmth and attention did not describe her parents. Whereas, the warmth that I seek exists solely within my community. Barry’s home was like a seesaw of constant change. A child her age sought to find that new home at school. Although school funds are cut back to save money, we should protect and value spaces that people feel safe in. The education system needs to realize the importance of schools, the children and the importance of having a warm and secure place. Just like it gave Barry a sanctuary of a school.

In Lynda Barry’s story “The Sanctuary of School”, she portraits a little girl who has an unhappy family and bad living conditions. She and her brother don’t have a bedroom, and they have to sleep on couch. Their parents don’ take care of them, instead, they pay more attention on family financial problems. This little girl usually escapes secretly from home and comes to school. She believes school is her comfortable and happy zone, and there are a lot of people that help her, support her and take care of her.

In comparing Workshop #2 (Ballet) to Workshop #1 (Creative Dance) I learned that ballet is a more structured type of dance requiring precise and graceful movements and a lot of flexibility, unlike creative dance, a more unstructured type of dance requiring less precision and grace; however, a lot of flexibility. As a result, I learned that the structured nature of ballet requires complete silence and the undivided attention of the dancer to effectively follow the directions of the choreographer to perfect the techniques of the movements. In

The struggle to belong and find one’s place is significant in the lives of some people.

I conducted my observation on November 3, 2017. I observed a fourth-grade language arts class taught by Robin Smith. Mrs. Smith exudes a love of reading and knowledge from the very moment you meet her. Mrs. Smith’s classroom is a warm, accessible, print rich environment complete with anchor charts, a word wall, and alphabet chart. Mrs. Smith and her classroom environment inspire each one of her students to find a passion for reading and learning. Mrs. Smith demonstrates an understanding of the social-emotional environment, and its importance to the success of a child’s learning experience. Although the social-emotional environment is much harder to grasp and see it is just as important as the physical environment. Mrs. Smith’s approach for classroom management demonstrates how a positive social-emotional environment can lead to an effectively well managed classroom.

Setting up a comfortable environment when working with children is a vital component. Directed by Dinham (2011, p. 65), children learn better in well-managed, safe, and psychologically secure learning environment. Therefore, when setting up the workspace, I chose to do the activity on the table of the living room with Jenny because “she’s more comfortable working with other people around” (Scholastic, n.d.). This place also nears to the kitchen which

The main argument of this paper is that most people are socialized to study at a specific spot. We will be focusing on people who come to study at the library alone. Most people become comfortable at a specific space in the library because of a general habitus of finding a space that is considered their “own place” to study at. In Becoming a firefighter, Matthew Desmond describes a general habitus as a “system of dispositions and ways about and acting in the world that is constituted early on in life” (Desmond, Ethnograhy, 391). Humans are disposed to studying in the same secluded spot because we take ownership of the space. Charles Horton Cooley writes in The looking glass self that “if we think of a secluded part of the woods as ‘ours’, it is because we think, also that others do not go there”(Cooley, The Presentation of Self in Everday Life ,32). People often think of their usual study space as theirs. Therefore, when entering the library, they often head straight for their space.