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Some Boys' Problems in Education--What Is the Role of VET?.
TL;DR: The last two decades have seen an increasing political concern in the high dropout rates and low performance in education of boys compared to girls -at times in the form of a ‘moral panic’.
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The Academic-Vocational Divide in Three Nordic Countries: Implications for Social Class and Gender.
Mattias Nylund,Per-Åke Rosvall,Elsa Eiriksdottir,Ann-Sofie Holm,Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret,Anna-Maija Niemi,Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the academic-vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academically oriented programmes at the...
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Gender, Social Class, and Exclusion: Collegiate Peer Cultures and Social Reproduction:
TL;DR: This article explored gender and class exclusion among college students and used qualitative data to explore how students talk about gender exclusion and quantitative data to quantify the extent to which they accept gender and race stereotypes.
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Imagining ‘radical’ youth work possibilities – challenging the ‘symbolic violence’ within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the contemporary mainstream state-led youth work tradition in England and present possibilities within this tradition for engaging disadvantaged young people in activities that facilitate resistance to oppression.
Illegal yet Licit : Justifying Informal Purchases of Work in Contemporary Sweden
TL;DR: Svart arbete, informal purchases of work, is a widely debated societal phenomenon in Sweden and it is often seen as detrimental to contemporary welfare society, eroding taxpaying morals, fair competit as mentioned in this paper.
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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.