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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 study of the influences on middle years teachers’pedagogical decision making
TL;DR: In this article, the authors contribute to the understanding of the pedagogical choice of secondary school middle years teachers and point to the school structures which can be developed to support successful change processes.
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An ethnography of the one laptop per child (OLPC) programme in Uruguay
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of the CEIBAL program in Uruguay, which aims to promote social inclusion by providing children and teachers with laptop computers, is presented, where the authors explore the complicated work of conceiving, implementing and sustaining policy in practice, both at the macro level and through local instantiations.
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“You Kind of Have to Bite the Bullet and do Bitch Work”: How Internships Teach Students to Unthink Exploitation in Public Relations
TL;DR: The authors argue that describing internships as "bitch work" highlights key material and ideological lessons about labour, gender, and exploitation, and furthermore teach interns to unthink work, and conclude with a call to rethink internships and recognize the gendered exploitation of interns and compensate interns for their real labour.
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The ontological practices of child culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the ontology of child culture is discussed and questions about its ontology are asked about the ontologies and ontologies of child cultures, without creating a "true" or singular defi...
The Power of Silence and the Price of Success: Academic Achievement as Transformational Resistance for Aboriginal Women
TL;DR: This article used traditional Aboriginal sharing circles and personal interviews for a culturally sensitive exploration of the experiences of successful Aboriginal women in mainstream post-secondary institutions, revealing that achievement in mainstream educational institutions can be interpreted as a form of covert internal resistance for Aboriginal women.