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Self-esteem, dreams & indignation : lessons from an emerging middle-class private high school in Northeast Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnography of the final year at an emerging middle-class private high school in the Northeast of Brazil is presented, focusing on 15 months of fieldwork, including participant observation in the classroom wherein I followed students whilst they prepared for vestibular.
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Exploring the risks, harms and pleasures of licit and illicit substance use:a study of young people in a South-Yorkshire town
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the localised substance use perceptions, practices and experiences of a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged young people in a South-Yorkshire town in England and found that participants appeared to hold potentially erroneous beliefs around their abilities to control and manage substance use, and to avoid negative and long-term harms.
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Realities and Anxieties to Live With: An In-Depth Inquiry of the Experience of Internationally Educated Professionals in the Bridging Programs at Universities in Ontario
TL;DR: This article found that the IEPs anxieties are partly inherent in the process of immigration, partly reflective of their own modes of learning and the need of external support and partly the side effect of higher education which, questionably, attempts to reproduce the correlation between knowledge and privileges.
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Recombining micro/macro: The grammar of theoretical innovation
TL;DR: The authors disaggregates the different distinctions associated with the terms "micro" and "macro" and situates theoretical strategies of the past decades in the grammar of oppositions that makes them possible and innovative.
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(In)visible entrepreneurs: creative enterprise in the urban music economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the NEET category obscures the significant impact of the accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy and argue that Grime music and its related enterprise culture is a mechanism for social and economic mobility particularly for those from ethnically stigmatised communities.
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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.