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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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Our voices, our images, our story ::children’s lived experience in DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) primary schools in Ireland.
TL;DR: In Ireland Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS): The Action Plan for Educational Inclusion was launched in May 2005 and remains the Department of Education and Skills (DES) policy instrument to combat educational disadvantage.
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Work in progress?: 14-16 year old boys' experience of vocational education
TL;DR: This article found that the issue of underachievement is systemic within the mainstream educational curriculum with a gap existing between what young people think they need and what policy makers perceive to be required.
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Persistent Iniquities: A Twenty-Year Perspective on "Race, Sex, Socioeconomic Status, and Mathematics"
TL;DR: Reyes and Stanic's model can still be of use within mathematics education, its users must consider its underexplored assumptions by answering why teach mathematics, questioning the delineation of difference, and allowing for agency as discussed by the authors.
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Curriculum Development as a Subversive Activity?Discourse and Ideology in the Evolution of Curriculum Policy in Ireland 1980-2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the evolution of curriculum policy and the discourses that have accompanied it is presented, focusing on three interrelated issues: the manner in which curriculum discourse has evolved over the period in question, as the locus of activity has moved in a sequence of shifts from the periphery to the centre; secondly, national policy has responded in an ideological manner or otherwise to the discourse that has been generated at the margins; and thirdly, the extent to which the national curriculum policy that has emerged has adopted, reflected or facilitated the same range of neo-liberal
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Texts in Performance: Identity, Interaction and Influence in U.K. and U.S. Poetry Slam Discourses
TL;DR: Gregory et al. as discussed by the authors provide a close analysis of poetry slam in the United Kingdom and United States, using the tools of ethnography and discourse analysis to produce an in-depth account, which is sensitive to the discursively constructed, situated meanings of slam participants.