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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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Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make cross-national comparisons of G.H. Mead's philosophy of time and his focus on the present as the site of interpretation of past experiences and thoughts about the future.
Going to War to Go to College: Student Veterans in Academic Contact Zones
TL;DR: Moore et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the experiences of U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans on two California college campuses and found that these enforced silences, coupled with heroic narratives about past and current wars, increase the cognitive dissonance between veterans' lived military experience and their campus lives, which in turn can negatively affect their success in college.
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The Apprentice's Tale : entry to multiple communities of practice for working class boys
TL;DR: Goodwin et al. as discussed by the authors examined the apprenticeship experiences of a group of working class young men from the London area during the years 1959-1989, to determine the impact of those experiences on the formation of their adult, male, self-identities.
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African-Caribbean Young Women in the UK and Cigarette Smoking
TL;DR: Findings based on predominantly one ethno-cultural group do not necessarily translate to other groups, even if they live under similar material conditions, as this research demonstrates.
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Factors influencing the academic attainment of undergraduate sponsored students at the University of the Western Cape: a strength-based approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study examines factors that influence the academic attainment of undergraduate sponsored students and the institutional practices that enhance their performance at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.