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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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Exploring masculinities – the sequel: an examination of the views and attitudes of Irish parents and a sample of journalists towards the exploration of masculinities with young men at senior cycle
Jim Gleeson,Orla McCormack +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Exploring Masculinities Programme (EM) was proposed to introduce Social, Personal and Health Education (SPE) at the senior cycle of the education system.
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Khat-chewing in liminal leisure spaces: British-Somali youth on the margins
TL;DR: Khat-chewing, a controversial leisure activity within the Somali diaspora in Britain, has received little attention within the academic field of Leisure Studies as mentioned in this paper, despite its popularity in the Somali community.
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The Ethnic Prejudice of Flemish Pupils: The Roles of School Gender Composition and Laddish Culture.
TL;DR: The authors examined whether secondary schools' gender composition and levels of laddish attitudes influence the degree of ethnic prejudice among Flemish pupils, and they hypothesize that in addition to p...
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Teachers' Collective Actions, Alliances and Resistance within Neo-liberal Ideas of Education: the example of the Individual Programme
TL;DR: This paper used ethnographic research from an Individual Programme (IP) in a Swedish upper secondary school and found that the education system in Sweden has taken a strong neo-liberal turn over the past 15 years.
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Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth
TL;DR: The authors explored how rural young people imagine their futures in neo-liberal times, and found that popular culture provides a key resource in practices of self-making, as students invest in middle-class ideals of the good life, and distinguish their own rural location from racialized mappings of urban and global others.