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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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Young people and structural inequality: beyond the middle ground
TL;DR: The authors argued that reflexivity is an important feature of young people's identities, and that reflexive practices articulate classed inequalities under conditions of "structured fragmentation" and argued that young people need to understand contemporary youth inequalities.
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Naming and Classifying: Theory, Evidence, and Equity in Education.
TL;DR: For example, this paper pointed out that success or failure in education is associated with other sociodemographic factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, and the only way to avoid such labels is to fail to make distinctions of any kind.
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Education spaces: embodied dimensions and dynamics
Victoria J. Cook,Peter Hemming +1 more
Abstract: Education is of immense significance to political and economic life, particularly in advanced capitalist societies where specific levels of educational attainment are deemed essential in the reprod...
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Young people's uses of celebrity: class, gender and ‘improper’ celebrity
Kim Allen,Heather Mendick +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the question of how celebrity operates in young people's everyday lives, thus contributing to the urgent need to address celebrity's social function and illustrate how young people draw upon class and gender distinctions that circulate within celebrity discourses (proper/improper, deserving/undeserving, talented/talentless and respectable/tacky).
Involved Parenthood : Everyday Lives of Swedish Middle-Class Families
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how 16 Swedish middle-class parents understand and form their parenthood in everyday life, focusing on how they involve themselves in their children's care and education.