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Introduction: stratification or exploitation, domination, dispossession and devaluation?
TL;DR: The authors locates the GBCS papers on the elite, and their respondents, within a context, and emphasizes some of the key points made by the respondents in order to intervene in a discussion about what is at stake in doing sociological research on class.
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Risk‐taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils
TL;DR: This article examined the kinds of gendered and classed enterprising selves that were narrated in the Finnish writing competition Good Enterprise! written by pupils in the 9th grade of comprehensive school and found that the possible selves of boys matched the culturally valued representations of the autonomous, risk-taking entrepreneurial individual more closely than the self-representations of girls did.
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Sacrifice and distinction in dirty work: Men's construction of meaning in the butcher trade
TL;DR: This paper explored the meanings that men give to dirty work, that is jobs or roles that are seen as distasteful or "undesirable" in the butcher trade, and identified three themes from butchers' accounts that relate to work-based meanings: sacrifice through physicality of work; loss and nostalgia in the face of industrial change; and distinction from membership of a shared trade.
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Qualitative Research in Education: The Origins, Debates, and Politics of Creating Knowledge
TL;DR: This paper presented an overview and discussion of qualitative research in education by analyzing the roles of researchers, the history of the field, its use in policymaking, and its future influence on educational reform.
Lionhearts of the Playworld : An ethnographic case study of the development of agency in play pedagogy
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the creation and emergence of a playworld was conducted in a Finnish experimental mixed-age elementary school classroom in the school year 2003-2004, where children and teachers explore different social and cultural phenomena through taking on the roles of characters from a story or a piece of literature and acting inside the frames of an improvised plot.
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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.