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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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Massaging desire : disadvantaged students' aspirations for higher education.
TL;DR: In response to the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education in 2008, the Australian Government has set ‘20/40 targets’ in a bid to increase low socioeconomic status (SES) enrolment to 20% by 2020, and to increase to 40% by 2025 the number of 25 to 34 year olds holding bachelor degrees as discussed by the authors.
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Control as an Educational Tool and Its Impact on the Outdoor Educational Process
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic study conducted at a residential outdoor centre, involving primary school children, teachers and the centre staff, revealed that the controlling approaches adopted by some facilitators interfered with the pupils' outdoor learning experience.
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Culture Instead of Politics: Negotiating 'Otherness' in Intercultural Educational Activity.
TL;DR: Programmes based on intercultural encounters with the ‘Other’ place culture and cultural difference at their centre as discussed by the authors, and cultural discourse has been defined as a new epistemology and praxis that...
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The Politics of Recitation: Ideology, Interpellation, and Hegemony.
TL;DR: Backer argues that recitation does not interpellate students into a particular category but instead teaches students to become interpellatable to any social category, independent of historical context as discussed by the authors.
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Coaching at-risk youth in a school within a socially challenging environment:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors implemented group coaching in a school setting and examined the participants' experiences, concluding that group coaching can be a valid tool for addressing at-risk youth in schools.