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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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“Why should I talk proper?”: Critiquing the requirement for spoken standard English in English secondary schools
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between identity and the linguistic style used by adolescent pupils during classroom presentations, with a focus on working-class pupils, and found that identity had a strong impact on the linguistic choices pupils made: when speaking as themselves they used more localised and informal linguistic variants; conversely, when they were playing a role they were able to adopt a wider range of linguistic features.
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“Being on both sides: covert ethnography and partisanship with bouncers in the night‐time economy”
TL;DR: In this paper, a covert ethnography of bouncers in the night-time economy of Manchester, UK is presented, where situated deception is used to expose and explore "taking sides".
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Breaking away to find a way: poverty and school failure in a Spanish adolescent life-history
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the social path that an adolescent from a marginal background in Malaga (Spain) has travelled throughout his life, and show a class differentiation that divides society in two: you, who control the means of production, impose your culture, and define the policy and the school; and we, who live in poor houses and districts, learn in the street and do things that are worthy of punishment.
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Learning, consumption and work in higher education : an exploratory study of changing student experiences
Abstract: ....................................................................................................................... i Lay Summary ............................................................................................................ iii Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. v Table of
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Citizenship and the speaking subject
TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which schools have historically promoted or failed to nurture the speaking voices of future citizens and set out a theoretical rationale for taking pedagogies of speaking seriously and reported on a project designed to enhance the communicative awareness and confidence of 11-18-year olds.