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Qualifications and Skills: The Organisational Perspective.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the inferences that employers in Greece draw from particular aspects of study programs, as recorded on educational qualifications, based on semi-structured interviews with human resource managers in 37 industrial and service organisations and general directors of careers offices in eight higher education institutions, and build from inductive data processing and analysis, a theoretical model of selection strategies.
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The place of class: Considerations for psychology
TL;DR: The concept of social class has not featured as prominently in psychology as it has in the broader social sciences as mentioned in this paper, however, it has received increasing attention in recent years. But it has not been widely used in the field of psychology.
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‘I am not clever, they are cleverer than us’: children reading in the primary school
TL;DR: This article examined the experiences of children learning to read in a multi-ethnic London primary school and found that resistance to school hierarchies and strong feelings about educational failure are manifested in the narratives of children as young as six years old.
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Basic skills, literacy practices and the 'Hidden Injuries of Class'
Mark Cieslik,Donald Simpson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of poor skills on the life chances of adults living in two disadvantaged areas of England was examined using the theories of Goffman and Bourdieu to document how problems with literacy have a corrosive effect on the identities of interviewees, threatening their wellbeing.
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Disadvantaged Identities: Conflict and Education from Disability, Culture and Social Class
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the conflicts these students have to deal with when constructing their identity and examine the challenge that education has to face to turn those conflicts into opportunities that will help to build life projects with which they can freely identify.
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Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept
TL;DR: The concept of community of practice was not born in the systems theory tradition as discussed by the authors, but it has its roots in attempts to develop accounts of the social nature of human learning inspired by anthropology and social theory.
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
TL;DR: In this article, the Flatlands of Oakland and the Youth Control Complex are discussed. But the focus is on the role of black youth in the criminal justice system and community institutions.
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Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The authors examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults and finds that for them, the transition from K to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to...
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New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Michael A. Lawson,Hal A. Lawson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, student engagement research, policy, and practice must become more nuanced and less formulaic, and the ensuing review is structured accordingly, guided in part by social-ecological analysis and social-cultural theory.
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The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement Among Newcomer Immigrant Youth
TL;DR: The Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (LISA) as discussed by the authors used a mixed-methods approach, combining longitudinal, interdisciplinary, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to document adaptation patterns of 407 recently arrived immigrant youth from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico over the course of five years.