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Exploring Mechanisms of (Dis)Engagement in Health and Physical Education Class with Adolescent Boys
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a substantive and theoretical understanding of the intersubjective and intrasubjective meanings ascribed to health and physical education among adolescent boys who are transitioning into their final year of institutionalized HPE in Ontario.
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Mini schools: the new global city communities of Vancouver
TL;DR: This paper conducted a multi-sited ethnography using an interdisciplinary methodological framework to critically examine how such transformation is carried out, focusing on the dismantling of long-standing connections between the school and the neighbourhood within the context of the emerging local education market and how this process unfolds in young people's lives and self formation.
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Nourishing Gods: Birth and Personhood in Highland Mexican Codices
TL;DR: The birth almanacs in Mexican codices depict the transformation of a child into a person as mentioned in this paper, where the child's body is used as a tool and raw material to become a person.
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Looking beyond the label: What are the educational experiences of a cross-section of four cohorts of students labelled as ’non-traditional’?
TL;DR: This paper explored the past and present educational experiences of mainly mature female students who are labelled as "non-traditional" in a College-based Higher Education (HE) establishment in the 13th most deprived borough of the United Kingdom (UK) and investigated their experience of compulsory and post-compulsory education.
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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.