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Practising gender: The role of banter in young men’s improvisations of masculine consumer identities
Wendy Hein,Stephanie O'Donohoe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of male friendship groups in central Scotland explores the gender processes involved in improvising their masculine consumer identities within and across various social settings and interactions, through consumption-related banter, they played for and played with their ideas of masculinity, thereby engaging in the practising of gender.
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What is the nature of the achievement gap, why does it persist and are government goals sufficient to create social justice in the education system?
Ruth Goodman,Diana Burton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the nature of the achievement gap and some of the mechanisms that serve to perpetuate disadvantage in education systems providing a context in which to consider the appropriateness of government policies aimed at addressing the gap.
Japanese women marriage migrants today : negotiating gender, identity and community in search of a new lifestyle in Western Sydney
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a life cycle of a MIGRANT, a CONSEQUENT SETTLER, and a MARIAGE MARRIAGRANT, and conclude:
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Emplacing young people in an Australian rural community: an extraverted sense of place in times of change
TL;DR: This paper explored the identities of young people in an Australian rural town in relation to contemporary discussions of place and social change, revealing an attachment to place created in community activities and day-to-day farm life, articulated in the language of the rural idyll.
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Social media, bedroom cultures and femininity: exploring the intersection of culture, politics and identity in the digital media practices of girls and young women in England
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of social media in the production of girls' cultural and political identities is examined and the authors argue that social media should be conceptualised as an important terrain upon which neoliberal and postfeminist subjectivities can be both reproduced and subverted.
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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.