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From labouring to learning: working-class masculinities, education and de-industrialization
TL;DR: FromFrom Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization by Michael R.M. Ward is a thought-provoking, cohesive and deeply engrossing research monograph which will...
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"The Sky’s the Limit": On the Impossible Promise of E-learning in the Toronto District School Board
TL;DR: In this paper, a year-long ethnographic study on e-learning in secondary day school programs in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) reveals intensified inequalities that map geographically in areas divided by class and race, serving students in schools with greater learning opportunities.
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CULTURAL STUDIES AND EDUCATION: Reflecting on differences, impacts, effects and change
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of cultural studies on the forms and practices of education as a system and as institutions as well as at the more micro-level of individual learning and even theories of learning itself is examined.
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Capital, culture and community: understanding school engagement in a challenging context
TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which school management aims to boost students' embodied cultural capital as a means towards achieving academic success, and looked at the perceptions of key informants and school students on these issues.
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Re-imagining Bernstein’s restricted codes:
TL;DR: While accepting that the concept of restricted code has a troubled history that resulted in Bernstein being associated with deficit models of working-class life, this article argued that restricted code shoul...
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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.