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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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'We don't need no education'? Exploring the educational experiences of young footballers
Chris Platts,Andy Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored some key aspects of players' masculinities, identities, and identities, using data generated by 303 young male footballers employed in 21 professional clubs in England and Wales.
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From Labour Market Institutions to an Alternative Model of Labour Markets
TL;DR: In this article, a post-disciplinary article goes beyond orthodox labour economics and combines insights from the "socio-economics of labour markets" (SELM), and critical realism (CR), to develop a SELMCR perspective, which is then used to create an alternative conception of labour market institutions and an alternative model of labor markets.
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Education and Employment: the influences on young people’s career decision making in Antigua and the UK
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the issue of career choice and decision-making through the eyes of young people in Antigua and in England and found that young people do not make their choices based upon whether the career is a vocational or academic career.
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Youth geographies of urban estrangement in the Canadian city: risk management, race relations and the ‘sacrificial stranger’
Jo-Anne Dillabough,Ee-Seul Yoon +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of urban social divisions and changing race relations on the experiences of disadvantaged youth living on the periphery of two Canadian cities: Vancouver and Toronto, and found that urban social division and race relations affect the experience of marginalized youth.
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‘Afterschool and during vacations’: on labor and schooling in the postcolony
TL;DR: The Indian state's recent deregulation of child labor, several years after it passed a law making schooling free and compulsory, forces us to attend to the distinct dynamic between child labor and education as discussed by the authors.