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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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The ‘Immigrant Corner’: A Place for Identification and Resistance:
TL;DR: The authors showed how young people in a Swedish upper-secondary school negotiate identities through social relations in a particular part of a school corridor that they call the 'immigrant corner' in order to identify themselves.
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Bicycles, ‘informality’ and the alternative learning space as a site for re-engagement: a risky (pedagogical) proposition?
TL;DR: In this article, an in-school alternative learning program for repairing and restoring old bicycles is discussed, focusing on the "informality" that presented within the day-to-day dynamics of the program and how the space provided in the workshop sessions offered the opportunity for students to re-configure their relationships with each other, their teachers and the larger practice of schooling.
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Educational Friction: Striated Routes, Transition Velocity, and Value Recuperation among Singaporean Private Degree Students
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of educational friction is proposed as a way to depart from the dominant lens of analysis that privileges mobility as a valued way of life in young people's experiences of higher education.
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Reconfiguring Queer Asia as Disjunctive Modernities: Notes on the Subjective Production of Working-Class Gay Men in Hong Kong.
TL;DR: This article concludes by highlighting the interferential potential of class for understanding the queer cultural and subjective formations in other East Asian societies that went through similar processes of postwar economic development and class formation.
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Narrating identities and educational choices : the case of migrant and Greek young people
TL;DR: In this paper, the processes of educational decision making and fo rformance of identity lie at the heart of the present thesis that explores the narratives of two dozen Greek and twelve non-migrant young people attending two upper secondary Lyceums in Greece, one suburban Vocation and one inner-city Comprehensive located in the city of Thessaloniki.