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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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Lessons learned: student voice at a school for pupils experiencing social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report one such attempt at an SEBD special school, where a student research group was formed to evaluate the school's behaviour policy and the students' views reminded professionals of the need for consistency, positive relationships and communication underpinning behaviour management strategies.
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Reflections on the Sociology of Childhood in the UK
TL;DR: In the last few years there has been a notable shift towards the demonization of teenagers (adolescents) along with rising levels of anxiety concerning children generally as discussed by the authors, which represents something of a divergence between the orientations of UK policy and politics and contemporary orientation of the sociology of childhood.
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Dialect, interaction and class positioning at school: From deficit to difference to repertoire
TL;DR: The authors showed that non-standard dialects of English do not have a discrete system of grammar that is isolated from other varieties; rather local dialect forms interact with a range of semiotic resources (including standard forms) within speakers' repertoires.
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Towards A Contextual Turn in Visitor Studies: Evaluating Visitor Segmentation and Identity-Related Motivations
Emily Dawson,Eric Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: Falk et al. as discussed by the authors assess the use of audience segmentation in visitor studies by analyzing its application in the identity model of visitors proposed by J. Falk et al., and argue for a contextual turn that places visitors' experiences within a holistic and long-term framework of individual life circumstances, relationships, and trajectories.
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Constructions of the working-class ‘Other’ among urban, white, middle-class youth: ‘chavs’, subculture and the valuing of education
Sumi Hollingworth,Katya Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that social class is still a major force at work in young people's lives, particularly in the context of schooling, where white, working-class young people stand in stark contrast to the normative middle-class subject, and become pathologized.