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Examining the educational experiences of community day school graduates: a narrative inquiry
TL;DR: Community day schools operate as a non-traditional education system that provides a separate and often unique education to many disenfranchised students, with lessened accountability protocols to assess whether these systems prepare graduates for life after high school as discussed by the authors.
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Restrictions into Opportunities: How Boundaries in the Life Course Can Shape Educational Pathways.
Adeela ahmed Shafi,Jo Rose +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored relationships between experiences in initial education, subsequent life experiences/opportunities and the decision to return to education later in life, and found that it was life experiences rather than initial education that both motivated and empowered the interviewees to take advantage of opportunit...
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Health and Masculinities Shaped by Agency within Structures among Young Unemployed Men in a Northern Swedish Context
TL;DR: Expressions of life choices and life chances related to power and experiences of health among early unemployed adolescent young men during the transition period to adulthood were explored in the light of Cockerham’s Health Lifestyles Theory.
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Cuisine, Health and Table Manners: Food Boundaries and Forms of Distinction among Primary School Children:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how pupils from different social origins perform and embody social class through food consumption in two primary school canteens, using data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork.
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From Multiracial Subjects to Multicultural Citizens: Social Stratification and Ethnic and Racial Classification among Children of Immigrants in the United Kingdom.
TL;DR: This article examined how immigrant parents' geographic origins correspond to their adult children's ethnic and racial self-classification; whether discrepancies are associated with socioeconomic sta cation, and found that such discrepancies are correlated with socioeconomic status.
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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.