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Stories from the margins of the educational system
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between the subjective narratives of young people and dominant political storylines on education, and ask how political storylines can be traced in young people's narratives, and if and how they affect the narratives and transitional processes of the young people in question.
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Critical Education, Critical Pedagogies, Marxist Education in the United States.
TL;DR: The authors traces the paths of critical education, critical pedagogies, and Marxist education in the United States by examining the tenets of critical pedagogy from a Marxist point of view while providing a historical context.
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A Question of Family? Youth and Gangs:
TL;DR: The role of the family as a key factor in encouraging gang membership and criminality is hotly debated as mentioned in this paper, but the evidence that connects the family to gang membership is far from conclusive and argues that the aetiology of gang formation and criminality cannot simply be reduced to poor home environments or broken families.
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Youth Participatory Action Research: A Pedagogy of Transformational Resistance for Critical Youth Studies.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain how some youth gain insights into educational processes of social reproduction by participating in a pedagogy of transformational resistance, and how these insights lead to resistances that have the potential to transform young people's subjectivities while allowing them to envision ways of learning to counteract oppressive and reproductive schooling.
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The persistence of memory : history, family and smoking in a Durham coalfield village
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic account of smoking practices in a former mining village in North East England, called Sleetburn, is presented. But the authors focus on the link between poverty and smoking, and do not consider the wider issues of class and stigma associated with smoking in the context of wider values.
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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.