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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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‘A Road Less Spoken’The experiences of Youthreach participants
TL;DR: The thesis concludes that students should not have to feel ashamed for attending Youthreach programmes and that, one way to achieve this is for Youthreach centres to be recognised as a viable and valid alternative to mainstream schooling.
Social studies education and standards-based education reform in north america: curriculum standardization, high- stakes testing, and resistance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical examination of recent educational reforms in the USA (No Child Left Behind and Common Core State Standards), which use high-stakes testing as a tool for standardizing the social studies curriculum and teaching methods.
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Irish incarnate : masculinities and intergenerational relations on Tyneside
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated Irish masculinities on Tyneside with thirty eight men of Irish descent over three living generations, and found significant change, often shaped by wider socio-economic factors, such as social mobility and the declining role of institutional religion; but also continuity, through an inheritance of culture and heritage and at times an explicit resistance to change.
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“Poorer children study better”: How Urban Chinese young adults perceive relationships between wealth and academic achievement
TL;DR: The authors examined how Chinese citizens perceived the relationship between wealth and achievement among their former middle school classmates and found that wealthier classmates were more likely than poorer classmates to lack motivation, have poor study habits, and be distracted by material pursuits.
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“These aren’t the jobs we want”: youth unemployment and anti-work politics in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
TL;DR: Research on youth unemployment in South Africa has largely been dominated by quantitative accounts that highlight skills mismatches, educational levels and industrial transformations as discussed by the authors, which highlight skills mismatch, educational level and industrial transformation.