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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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Beyond “Acting White” Affirming Academic Identities by Establishing Symbolic Boundaries Through Talk
TL;DR: The authors investigated the interactional processes by which students from non-dominant groups develop academic identities within schools that privilege the dominant group and found that students supported their academic identities through strategically establishing symbolic boundaries between academic content and the standards by which they were judged.
Reading identities: a case study of grade 8 learners' interactions in a reading club
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of ABBREVIATIONS and CHAPTER 7.1 of the book "I KnowLEDGEMENTS: A List of TABLES, FIGURES, and ABBEVIATIONS".
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The Jewish Diasporascape in the Straits : An Ethnographic Study of Jewish Businesses Across Borders
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how Jewish entrepreneurs build and operate their networks and provided a thorough insight into the routes and anchorages of a small Diaspora community by means of three business case studies; the diamond trade, the fashion business and the speciality coffee retail business.
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Reproduction in Physical Education, Society and Culture: The Physical Education Curriculum and Stratification of Social Class in England.
TL;DR: In contemporary British society, discussions of social class have become relatively marginalised in comparison to their historically eminent position within the domains of politics, social policy, and social policy.
Workers of the mill : local labour market change and restructuring of the sugar industry in northern Negros Occidental, Philippines 1946-2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table of contents of the paper "A Table of the Future" and present a table of the authors' work: http://www.tableofthefuture.org/