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“It’s not my dream, actually”: students’ identity work across figured worlds of construction engineering in Sweden
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the dominant subject positions for students in construction engineering classroom and workplaces in a 3-year Swedish engineering program and examine students' identity strategies that contribute to their persistence through the field.
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A school of immigrants: how new arrivals become pupils in a multilingual London school
TL;DR: The authors observed a group of 12-year-olds in three classes: Maths, Humanities and English, and observed particular tensions, resistances and achievements that are part of young people's growing sense of membership of the school and their wider role as new citizens of the UK.
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Approaches to work and education over the life course. A two-cohort study of men skilled in male-dominated manual occupations in Norway
TL;DR: The analysis suggests that definitions of talent and merit are becoming increasingly narrow to the disadvantage of those talented at object based work, as more and more opportunities and privileges are being turned into rewards for school performance.
Who can be ‘normal’? : Constructions of normality and processes of exclusion in two Finnish comprehensive schools
TL;DR: This article examined how teachers and students construct marginalization, exclusion, and inclusion in two Finnish comprehensive schools and found that bullying could be seen as a way to prevent or hinder students from deviating from the norms and ideals of the school.
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The Big Drum The Mutability of a Sporting Habitus: Mountaineering in Scotland as a Case Study
TL;DR: There is some debate around structure and agency in Bourdieu's concept of habitus as discussed by the authors, and it can be understood why a great deal of empirical research suggests class reproduction.
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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.