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Resisting participation: critiquing participatory research methodologies with young people
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine research conducted with a small group of young people experiencing exclusion from school, which aimed to understand those experiences and their implications for education, and examine the methodological processes of the research as well as the issues of power in education that the work set out to scrutinise.
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Young people's embodied social capital and performing disability
TL;DR: This paper explored empirically how young people's positionings within a variety of social networks (re)produce differentially valued identity positionings which can become embodied within young people' shifting senses of self.
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Disengaged and disaffected young people: surviving the system
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the perceptions of young people that the difficulties they encounter are in part a result of their own behaviour and in part the product of the system and conclude that schools act to maintain homeostasis and that a substantial minority of adolescents are at long-term risk due to organisational and national unwillingness to decouple economic benefit from maintenance of the existing system.
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School, Youth Culture and Territorial Stigmatization in Swedish Metropolitan Districts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with processes of marginalization and patterns of segregation in contemporary Sweden that have transformed the former welfare state, and how informal learning processes embedded in the cultural praxis of youth empower them to express themselves.
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Twelve years of upper-secondary education in Sweden: the beginnings of a neo-liberal policy hegemony?
Dennis Beach,Marianne Dovemark +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss data produced about learning practices and learner identities during the past 12 years of upper-secondary school development in Sweden based on ethnographic fieldwork that has examined these issues with respect to two sets of pupils from these schools: one successful, one unsuccessful.
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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.