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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 gendered landscape of UK higher education : do men feel disadvantaged?
TL;DR: The landscape of UK higher education has changed significantly over the past decades as mentioned in this paper, and key shifts relate to the changing gender balance of the undergraduate student body and to emergent gender...
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Social entrepreneurship : sociality, ethics, and politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how this process is thought of and negotiated on a subjective level by young social entrepreneurs in London and Milan, based on an understanding of social entrepreneurs as individuals who perceive work as a means for self-expression.
Empowered Youth: The Co-Creation of Youth as Technological Citizens and Consumers Within Community-Based Technology Programs
TL;DR: Pabst et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the new media ecologies of urban, low-income youth and youth of color, and how they develop literacies and competencies around technology in particular spaces of Community Technology Centers (CTCs), while placing them within their broader technological experiences and race, classed, and gendered identities.
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The cultural production of an ‘employable person’: A case of madrasa students in West Bengal, India
TL;DR: Madrasas are increasingly being reformed across South Asia with the intended aim of "social change" through mainstreaming its marginalized Muslim population as discussed by the authors. But while the transformative change, as pro...