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Marking Differences: Indigenous cultural tastes and practices
TL;DR: The authors examined the similarities and differences between the cultural tastes and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians as evidenced by the relationships between the main sample and an Indigenous sample recruited by a 2015 national survey.
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The Operation of Grade Retention and Educational Inequality: Who Gets Retained in Macao and Why?.
Yi-Lee Wong,Yisu Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how inadequate state regulation could make possible the manipulation of grade retention institutionally and individually in Macao and illustrate how the specific contextualized structural operation of grade-retention could serve as a mechanism for social differentiation and thus play a role in contributing to the observed educational inequality.
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An empirical study of student masculinities in an international school : towards a concept of 'third culture' masculinity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how masculinity is constructed by students in a European-based international school and found that the negotiation of masculinity in this setting is a complex process of stabilisation and fragmentation.
A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers’ and Students’ Actions: Teaching Practice, Student Disengagement and Instructional Materials
TL;DR: A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers' and Students' Actions as discussed by the authors, teaching practice, student disengagement and Instructional Materials Author: Olof Reichenberg Language: English with a Swedish summary ISBN: 97891-87876-14-1
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Homonegativity in the Technical and Vocational Track: A Survey of Secondary School Students in Flanders
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate what explains this track difference and if the homonegativity is reflected in more bullying experiences by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) students in these tracks.
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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.