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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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Youth culture as a context of political learning How young people politicize amongst each other
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of youth cultural styles for the development of civic competencies is discussed, and it can be shown that particular youth culture styles provide space for the analysis of current social and political problems and provide chances for young people to take political action.
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Troubling discourses on gender and education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyse the history of these discourses in Finland since the 1970s, with contextualisations to the international and European equality politics, using the ideas of multi-sited ethnography and auto-ethnography.
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Outdoor learning: primary pupils' experiences and teachers' interaction in outdoor learning
Barbara Humberstone,Ina Stan +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the processes of teaching and learning at one outdoor residential education centre with children and staff from ‘Oliver’ Primary School, and highlighted the importance of the teachers' interaction with the children in providing for democratic, shared positive learning through the presentation of an extreme or "critical" incident.
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Forging a ‘neoliberal pedagogy’ : the ‘enterprising education’ agenda in schools
TL;DR: The authors argue that the uncritical promotion of values of enterprise and entrepreneurship through approaches that lead to greater 'frontline' business involvement in schools, helping to normalize free market values and 'neoliberal commonplaces' is an aspect of a "neoliberal pedagogy".
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Legitimation Mechanisms in the Bailout Discourse
TL;DR: The authors examines how the discursive struggles over the constituents of the financial crisis in Greece are policed by mainstream domestic media, in favour of the hegemonic interpretations of the crisis.