Diversity, demographics and sense of place

This chapter reflects on how multiple factors related to sense of place connect to the educational experiences of multilingual students. The chapter specifically analyses how demographics of individual schools, particularly in terms of the increasing numbers of multilingual students and their identities, home languages and language proficiencies, and the pedagogical and curriculum decisions made based on these demographics shape or are shaped by sense of place. It utilises qualitative data from one of the authors’ ethnographic research project and the teaching experiences of the second author, both in the contexts of different diverse schools in England.