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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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Encouragement, Enticement, and/or Deterrent: A Case Study Exploring Female Experience in a Vocational Education (VET) Initiative in Northern England
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The history of Bantu education: 1948-1994
TL;DR: In this article, a critical analysis of the history of Bantu education under apartheid is presented, where it is argued that Bantus education was a segregated system of schooling for low-skilled occupation and domestication.
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Student persistence in STEM fields : school structures and student choices in Finland, Sweden and the United States
TL;DR: Saari et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effects of policy on student persistence in STEM fields in Finland, Sweden and the United States, and found that educational policies mediate student persistence both through structural possibility, and through the development of students' identities and non-cognitive skills.
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Power, Resistance, and Subjectivity in an Urban Elementary School
TL;DR: This chapter discusses Washington Elementary and a Theory of Power and Responses to Power, as well as student tactics, and investigates the relationship between power and body and the role of technology in education.
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Class in “the class”: conservative, competitive, and (dis)connected
TL;DR: LSE Research Online as discussed by the authors is a platform that allows users to access research output of the London School of Economics (LSE) to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research.