ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part explores a range of border crossings, including space and geography; gender and culture; belonging and loss; and transgressions and transformations. It also explores learning and teaching which recognises multiple borders and border crossings and attempts to open transformative spaces. The part shows that the complexities of identity formation and reformation are made and remade through histories and stories of resistance and struggle. Relational capital is political, and relational understandings, per se, are about an investment in the development of shared consciousness, learning through spaces in which people learn to recognise ourselves and others, and to be recognised in return. If 'good teaching is to temporarily estrange students from what's familiar', then narration and storytelling are an important part of developing new knowledges through challenges to old ones.
