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Mediation, Regulation, Critique: Mapping the Relationship between Cultural Meanings and Political Responses to Poverty, 1970-2010
TL;DR: The authors argue that the relationship between moral discourses about poverty and political outcomes is not as straightforward as the narrative above suggests, and argue that an analysis of the cultural meaning and political outcome of poverty requires an investigation into three related spaces of contestation: mediation, regulation, and critique.
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Constructions of the ‘educated person’ in the context of mobility, migration and globalisation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight ethnographies with young people in the Global South which draw on the common conceptual umbrella of the identity of the educated person to unpack novel intersections.
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Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the ‘new normal’ in Newfoundland and Labrador
TL;DR: The gender dimensions of automobility associated with different aspects of identity, including gender, have been explored in this paper, where the authors discuss the role of gender in the meaning and use of cars.
Between the NEET and the tidy - Exploring ‘middle’ outcomes in Scottish school qualifications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a latent variable modelling approach to analyse pupil's subject-area outcomes using administrative data from the Scottish Qualifications Authority that is held as part of the Scottish Longitudinal Study.
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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.