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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.
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Born to fail? Some lessons from a national programme to improve education in poor districts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the main benefits of a Portuguese program, launched in 1996, which was designed to support schools in segregated districts (TEIPs), and presented a theoretical framework, before moving on to the main features of the TEIP programme in contemporary Portuguese society and education.
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Theorizing children’s subjectivity: Ethnographic investigations in rural Rwanda
TL;DR: The importance of approaching the study of young people through their own experiences has been well established in the sociological and anthropological records as mentioned in this paper. But less attention has been paid to...
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The illusion of meritocracy and the audacity of elitism: expanding the evaluative space in education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors of the two widely acclaimed books on social inequality, namely, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century (2014) and Daniel Dorling's Injustice: Why Inequality Persists (2010), focus on how the authors relate problems of social inequality with educational disadvantage, naming the relation in terms of meritocracy and elitism.
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‘If You Don’t Let Us In, We’ll Get Arrested’: Class-cultural Dynamics in the Provision of, and Resistance to, Youth Justice Work
TL;DR: This article explored the tension between culturally mediated constructions of appropriateness, both in terms of youth behaviour and state responses thereto, and argued that, through youth justice work, the state attempts to inculcate idealized behavioural expectations "downwards" on those constructed as normatively imperilled.
Examining the educational experiences of community day school graduates: a narrative inquiry
TL;DR: Community day schools operate as a non-traditional education system that provides a separate and often unique education to many disenfranchised students, with lessened accountability protocols to assess whether these systems prepare graduates for life after high school as discussed by the authors.