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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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Normalizing Deviants: Notes on the De-Stigma Trend
TL;DR: This paper explored destigmatization discourses in the United States in the early 21st century, as social and political strategies and as narrative social movements unto themselves, and argued that these discourses can be seen as a form of social empowerment.
The Dennis Potter Heritage Project: Auto/Ethnography as Process and Product
TL;DR: The Dennis Potter Heritage Project (DPHP) provides a unique opportunity for complex empirical research as discussed by the authors, which offers the researcher a chance to study the organisational and cultural processes involved in the evolution of a heritage project, created to celebrate a locally important and culturally significant media icon.
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Dropping out/dropping back in : Matters that make learning matter
Anna Lund,Mats Trondman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what makes learning matter among youth who drop back into schooling, and they listen to and learn from the students themselves to understand why young people from a migration background drop out of secondary school and why some of them drop back in and become school achievers.
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The price of belonging: social citizenship and avenues of recognition for disadvantaged young people
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of the ASPIRATIONAL HORIZONS in the creation of the world's most famous archers and their role in their creation and preservation.
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Talking about careers: Personal and professional constructions of career by careers advisers
TL;DR: In this paper, an introduction to the study of psychology and its relation to the field of neuroscience is given. But this is not a comprehensive review. 1.1 Acknowledgements