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Appreciating Aspirations in Australian Higher Education.
TL;DR: The authors suggests that failing to understand the aspirations of different groups, understood as a collective cultural capacity, casts doubt over the ability of institutions to deliver increased numbers of knowledge workers, and that inciting subscription to the current norms of higher education is a weak form of social inclusion.
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The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations
TL;DR: This paper found that children of immigrants have higher expectations than their non-immigrants, and that their expectations are higher than those of native-born children of other ethnic groups, regardless of their background.
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Reimagining the purpose of VET – Expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the capabilities approach to the broader debate of the role of vocational education and training (VET) in poverty alleviation, by placing the well-being of VET students at the centre of our concern.
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Identity, community, and learning lives in the digital age
Ola Erstad,Julian Sefton-Green +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a process of tracing learning and identity across sites: tensions, connections and transformations in and between everyday and institutional practices, and the construction of parents as learners about pre-school children's development.
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Homosociality: In Between Power and Intimacy
Nils Hammarén,Thomas Johansson +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of homosociality describes and defines social bonds between persons of the same sex as discussed by the authors, and is frequently used in studies on men and masculinities, there defined as a mechanis...
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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.