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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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Precarious Labour in Portuguese Call Centres: An Anthropological Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the themes of alienation and exploitation within the Portuguese call centre sector by focusing on the nature of value-creation in the organisation of labour, the effects this regime has on workers' consciousness and agency, and how these effects are expressed in terms of class, gender and age.
Celtic Tiger, Hidden Tales: Living Stories of Career Success for Community Employment Scheme Participants: a Critical Interpretive Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of the problem: this article... ]..,.. )].. [1].
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Constructing legitimacy in a non-selective, American college: unpacking symbolic capital through ethnographic moments
TL;DR: The authors describe the ways that these distinctions were made about symbolic capital and how legitimacy was constructed as observed during nearly one year of ethnographic research in the Office of Admission of a small, private, urban, four-year college.
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The impossibility of anonymity in ethnographic research
TL;DR: This paper argued that the growth of social media and other forms of digital communication make it impossible for ethnographers to offer anonymity to research sites or to those significant people, and they argued that anonymity is essential for research.