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Mired in the shadows: quiet students in secondary schools
Greg Thompson,J. Bell +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the ways that quiet students negotiate the terrain of their school and found that these negotiations often seem to produce a self that is trapped rather than a subject who seizes opportunities to be inventive, creative and experimental of their self.
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Has Socioeconomic Development Reduced the English Divide? A Statistical Analysis of Access to English Skills in Japan.
TL;DR: The authors examined a historical change in the English divide in Japan as a highly industrialised country through statistical analysis of a large, population-based sample and found that, with Japan attaining various socioeconomic developments such as reduced income gaps and improvements in educational conditions, some forms of English divide originating from material gaps have gradually decreased.
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The Council Estate and “Being Placed”: Everyday Resistances to the Stigmatization of Community
TL;DR: This paper explored processes of place-based identity formation on a British Council and found that stigmatized places and identity formation are interconnected in a way similar to that of places of interest.
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Contact zones, problem posing and critical consciousness
TL;DR: In this article, the shape and findings of a participatory action research project with newcomer youths on the contours of status in society are shared, and implications for educators to re/consider the contrast of a project deliberately shaped to interrupt societal patterns of privilege with the patterns more traditionally found in schooling.
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Men in Prison: Con-viviality, Race and Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a body of work on criminology and studies of prison with an emphasis on gender, ethnicity and reflexivity in the research process, and conclude and reflect on the field of knowledge to which these papers are a contribution.
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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.