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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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Cosmo girls : new configurations of class and femininity in elite educational settings
Claire Charles,Alexandra Allan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Walkerdine et al. explored how class mediates the construction of young femininities in the private girls' school and explored how articulations of identity within such schools are configured through discourses of mobility and global social responsibility.
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Perceived Socio-Economic Status and Social Inclusion in School: Interactions of Disadvantages.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between students' reported socio-economic status (SES) and their perceived social inclusion (SI) in school in the whole sample and separately a sub-sample of students with additional social background disadvantages.
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Gender, popularity and notions of in/authenticity amongst 12‐year‐old to 13‐year‐old school girls
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated gendered identities and interactions of high-achieving students in Year Eight in England (12-13 years old), particularly in relation to students' "popularity" amongst their peers.
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Some Boys' Problems in Education--What Is the Role of VET?.
TL;DR: The last two decades have seen an increasing political concern in the high dropout rates and low performance in education of boys compared to girls -at times in the form of a ‘moral panic’.