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Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through Their Reading Practices in and out of School.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, which is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1548-1492.2012.01177.x
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Troublesome Masculinities: Masculinity in Trouble
TL;DR: The authors argue that young men can be enlisted in the feminist struggle to transform ideologies and institutions of male power, but only by troubling both the notions of masculinity that underpin them as well as the structural inequalities within which they are enmeshed.
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Negotiating Closed Doors and Constraining Deadlines: The Potential of Visual Ethnography to Effectually Explore Private and Public Spaces of Motherhood and Parenting.
Dawn Mannay,Jordon Creaghan,Dunla Gallagher,Ruby Marzella,Sherelle Mason,Melanie Morgan,Aimee Grant +6 more
TL;DR: It is argued that visual methodologies can enable access to unseen aspects of parenting and engender forms of temporal extension, which can help researchers to disrupt the restrictions of tightly time bounded projects.
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Social network influences on smoking, drinking and drug use in secondary school: centrifugal and centripetal forces
Adam Fletcher,Chris Bonell +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that health inequalities may be reproduced through these distinctive centrifugal and centripetal forces in different institutional contexts, and this should be the focus of quantitative examination in the UK and elsewhere.
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Growing Pains: Teacher Becoming a Transformative Agent.
Maija Lanas,Tomi Kiilakoski +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a teacher transforms from constrained and controlled to an independent yet dialogical agent by examining the narrative of her personal journal and ethnographic researcher's journal and identifying the contexts that an individual teacher may need to consider when transforming.
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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.