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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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Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an east London neighbourhood
Anthony Gunter,Paul Watt +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the transitions taken by black, white and mixed-parentage young males (and some of their female peers), transitions that were formed by the interaction of paid work opportunities with youth cultures and leisure practices, ethnicity, gender and social networks.
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The dialogic sociology of education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dialogic sociology of education that develops in dialogue with social agents and, as a result, has greater chances to improve their lives and to provide all children with the education they deserve to not only have equal chances but also, more importantly, equal results.
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Expectations on Track? High School Tracking and Adolescent Educational Expectations
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of adaptation in expectation formation processes by analyzing how educational tracking in high schools affects adolescents' educational expectations and found that adolescents view track placement as a signal about their academic abilities and respond to it in terms of modifying their educational expectations.
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Neoliberalism, working-class subjects and higher education
TL;DR: This article explored the issue of working-class students going on to higher education by thinking about the centrality of fantasy and imagination, using the work of Felix Guattari to bring together workingclass imagination and imagining the university of the future.