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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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Interview on Marxism, Critical Pedagogy and Inclusive Education: Discussions for a Revolutionary Discourse
TL;DR: Rikowski as discussed by the authors was a Visiting Fellow in the College of Social Science, University of Lincoln, UK from March 2014 to March 2015, where he was a lecturer in the Department of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford.
Closing the attainment gap : collaboration between schools in Sierra Leone.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key features of EducAid schools that could be transferable to neighbouring schools and propose key features for an evaluation of an evaluation framework for inter-school collaboration.
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The causes and effects of permanent exclusion from school : policy and practice in an urban children's services department
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on two areas: what contributes to instances of permanent exclusion from school, and what the effects are of its existence as a disciplinary option in an urban children's services department.
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A Good Place for What? Placing ‘Value’ in Youth Centres
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the discursive context of community-based youth centers to critically interrogate ideas and practices concerning leisure, youth, and youth centers using publicly available data.
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Exploring young children’s gendered discourses about skin colour
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic study conducted with young children in a multi-ethnic Early Years classroom in the north of England showed how young children's discourses about skin colour are informed by intersections with their gender identities.