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‘You’ll see that everywhere’: institutional isomorphism in secondary school subject departments
TL;DR: In this article, data from an ethnographic study of three secondary school geography departments in England are discussed through a concept of "isomorphism" (homogenising forces), drawn from neo-institutional theory.
Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Young People: The Challenge for Policy Makers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider some of the policy issues asso ciated with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) in young people and consider the ways in which SEBD impinges on different areas of social policy.
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Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination:
Laurie Cohen,Joanne Duberley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how the traditional concept of career retains its power in an age of contingency, short-termism and gig work, and introduce and explicate the concept of "career" to answer this question.
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Education and social haunting in post-industrial britain: primary school pupils’ experiences of schooling in a former coalmining community
Katherine Simpson,Robin Simmons +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation on the processes and experiences of education at Lillydown Primary, a state primary school in a former mining community in South Australia.
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Article of faith? : an empirical study of the tract 'Journey into Life' in the development of British evangelical identity between 1963 and 1989
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the road sign tract and the formation of British evangelical identity, focusing on the signifying practice of tract usage among evangelical Christians. But the tract was not considered as an object of faith in the study of late twentieth century evangelicalism in the United Kingdom.
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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.