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The emergence of motives in liminal hotspots
Morten Nissen,Kathrine Sørensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors rearticulate the concept of motivation with the conceptual repertoire of liminal hotspots, which directs attention to the emergent nature of activities and collectives and thus motives.
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Class Borders: Chinese and South Asian Canadian Professional Women Navigating the Labor Market
TL;DR: The authors explored how highly skilled professional immigrant women from China and India, two of the top source countries of immigration to Canada since 1998, learned to reorient and reshape their skills, experiences, and aspirations in order to secure employment.
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Critical health literacy: shifting textual–social practices in the health classroom
TL;DR: The authors argue that too often, students have been positioned as the "other" and therefore subjected to accommodation and assimilation to dominant discourses of health, and they argue that students as "aliens in the classroom" get the opportunity to develop health literacy as a way to speak for, to or from their own space.
Unnormal Sisterhood: Girls of Color Writing, Reading, Resisting, and Being Together
TL;DR: Campano et al. as discussed by the authors explored how a multiracial inquiry group of girls of color mobilized their literacies in service of building solidarity with one another across nondominant differences.
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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.