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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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“Teacher, do you think I have a bright future?” - Anxiety and uncertainty in a Rwandan Catholic Secondary Boarding and Day School
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an ethnographic account of the lives of a handful of Rwandan twelve to fifteen-year-olds over their first two years as students at a Catholic-led, public secondary boarding school on the outskirts of Kigali.
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Muddling through School Life: An Ethnographic Study of the Subculture of "Deviant" Students in China.
TL;DR: In this article, an eight-month ethnographic study of a small group of at-risk youths in a school of a southern coastal city in China is described. The process leading to the young students be...
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The Implications of Contractual Terms of Employment for Women and Leadership: An Autoethnographic Study in UK Higher Education
Anne Vicary,Karen Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss theoretical and practical implications for women's leadership arising from the findings and make recommendations for improvements in practice in the higher education sector, which will also be relevant to other organizational contexts where casual or temporary, fixed term, zero-hours non-permanent forms of employment are common.
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Rethinking the brand–community relationship: Wearing a biggie in Harlem:
TL;DR: In one of the most cited studies in business and economics, Muniz and O'Guinn as mentioned in this paper established that a brand can serve as the basis of community and showed that through digital commu...
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The Sage handbook of grounded theory
TL;DR: The Sage handbook of grounded theory as discussed by the authors is one of the most widely used handbooks for grounded theory and it is published by Sage Publications, 2008, 623 pp., £90 (hbk), ISBN 978 1412923460