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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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Situating Ghent in the ISCY study: the implications of the Flemish tracking system for equity and excellence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Flemish tracking system is one of the most important reasons for the existence of the large performance gap between the Belgian 15-year olds and the other countries.
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The Space Between: Building Liberatory Capital in a School-Community Partnership.
TL;DR: The authors describes what it looked like when a grassroots, Community Based Organization (CBO) dedicated to speaking back to this dominant discourse partnered with an urban public school system to simultaneously help families leave poverty and improve the academic success of their children.
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Class Consciousness, Power, Identity, and the Motivation to Teach
TL;DR: The authors explored the class-consciousness and working-class identities of a small group of student teachers in a university in south-east England and argued that these student teachers' identities and class experiences have sculpted their motivations to become teachers and that the form of classconsciousness that they exhibit ultimately acts to mould attitudes and perspectives that suit the objectives of twenty-first-century primary education in a capitalist society.
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De intergenerationele reproductie van cultureel kapitaal in belichaamde, geïnstitutionaliseerde en geobjectiveerde vorm
Koen van Eijck,Gerbert Kraaykamp +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the intergenerational reproduction of cultural capital in its embodied, institutionalized, and objectified states according to Bourdieu, and find that cultural capital manifests itself in three states: the institutionalized state, the embodied state, and the objectified state.
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‘Last year we used to call it a man's hammer’: (un)doing masculinity in everyday use of working tools within vocational education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how masculinity is oriented to in everyday interactions where both female and male students are learning how to use working tools in an auto mechanics environment in an upper level classroom.