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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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Negotiating contexts for reading : becoming 'someone who reads'
TL;DR: The authors found that reading for pleasure is a strong predictor of reading success, in addition to the social and emotional benefits of reading, and the important role that identity plays in motivation and engagement.
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Policing the crisis, or, why we love The Wire
Rebecca Bramall,Ben Pitcher +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that The Wire's celebrated, stereotype-challengaging representations of sex, race, class and gender can be indexed to the audience's yearning for "progressive" representation, and suggest that the investigative "detail" at the heart of the show can be read as an idealized representation of collaborative knowledge production.
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Sticky categorizations: processes of marginalization and (im)possible mo(ve)ments of transcending marginalization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore spaces where energies are mobilized through ongoing generated and created relations, and how spaces where this does not seem possible, tend to trap and thereby limit the person being categorized.
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Academic achievement as status competition: Intergenerational transmission of positional advantage among Taiwanese and American students
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the intergenerational transmission of relative/positional advantage for the academic achievement of secondary school students in Taiwan and the USA and found that parental education plays a much stronger role than family income in both societies.
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Understanding boys' attitudes to writing : influences of gender and socio-economic stereotyping
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a 3.3-approximation algorithm for the 3.1-GHz bandit-16.3 GHz frequency bandit model, and