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The collective identity of social class : a social-psychological perspective on socioeconomic status and postsecondary achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the Collective Identity of Social Class (CISC) scale was developed to measure psychological class identification, which is similar to factors that represent identification with other natural social groups.
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How Does Tie Strength Affect Access to Social Capital Resources for the Careers of Working and Middle Class African-Americans?:
TL;DR: This article used qualitative interviews with 50 working and middle class African-Americans to explore how they use social capital resources from their strong and weak ties to obtain education and access to social media.
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Beyond the traditional school value-added approach: Analysing complex multilevel models to inform external and internal school accountability in Chile
Troncoso Ruiz,Patricio Eduardo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how access to all sorts of reading materials and reading habits can have not only a relevant impact on pupils' progress in Language, but also in Mathematics.
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Differing pupil agency in the face of adult positioning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored children's agency and the possibility for children to position themselves as agentic in a Swedish school class using ethnographic data generated during a year-long field study, where the actions of three different children were used to illustrate how children position themselves and are positioned by others.
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Silent Stories of Resistance to Doing Employment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine accounts of everyday forms of resistance to the subject positions offered in the dominant discourse of "Do Employment" espoused on such schemes, and illustrate how the individuals respond when confronted with feelings of difference between subject positions and their own preferred interest.
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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.