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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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Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming, and (Re)traditionalizing Identities: Othering the Nonnormative
TL;DR: Othering has been widely documented in sociological research relative to social networks, ethnicity/race, sexuality, and place as discussed by the authors, and it has been considered as a strategy to mark social networks.
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Representation of Disasters in School Textbooks for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Iran : A qualitative Content Analysis
Hamed Seddighi,Homeira Sajjadi,Sepideh Yousefzadeh,Monica Lopez Lopez,Meroe Vameghi,Hassan Rafiey,Hamid Reza Khankeh +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the representation of disasters in school textbooks for the children with intellectual disabilities (ID) in the education system in Iran and found that more content about sheltering in disasters, reunification, as well as disasters response and recovery will help children with ID in Iran to perform better during and after disasters.
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Fortress Europe in the field: academics, immigrants, and methodological considerations for educational studies
Eric Mielants,Melissa F. Weiner +1 more
TL;DR: This article addressed the difficulty of local-level qualitative educational research in Amsterdam in light of changes related to contemporary political discourse on decades of immigration, especially from the 1970s onward, and increasingly critical assessments of Dutch education in the literature.
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Standing by … standing off – troublesome compassion in the relationships of school boys
Tuija Huuki,Vappu Sunnari +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the story of Mikael, a schoolboy from northern Finland, to examine how his affective ties of compassion and his pursuit of dominant forms of masculinity evolve in his journey from middle childhood to young adulthood.