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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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Researching Transnational Childhoods
Benjamin Zeitlyn,Kanwal Mand +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenge of conducting research with transnational and fast-changing communities, arguing that it requires the use of multi-sited methods, an awareness of power relations at research sites, the building of a good rapport with the children and a range of methodological approaches set within long-term ethnographic engagement with research participants.
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‘Paradoxical health education’: learning about health in Kenyan teacher training colleges
TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term fieldwork used ethnographic methods, including participant observation, interviews and focus-group discussions conducted in three teacher training colleges (TTCs) in Central and Eastern Kenya, concluded that regardless of institutional HE norms, student-teachers develop critical awareness and action competencies, learning to deal with health in more active, concrete and practical ways than those conveyed.
Emotionality in same-sex attracted men’s sexual scripting: four expatriate men in Burma tell their stories
TL;DR: The authors used an autoethnographic approach to investigate how the construction of sexual scripts and sexual interactions of same-sex attracted men are influenced by the interaction and the intersection of sexual identity, desire, gender, emotional scripts and emotional geography.
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Continuing Commentary: A Cyclical Model of Social Change:
Eric Jensen,Brady Wagoner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contextualize this study within a broader cyclical model of social change, in which their focus is one of the four phases in the cycle, and exemplified in the shifting representations of science communication in the UK from the ''deficit model'' of public understanding of science to the dialogic representation of public engagement.
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Anticipating Army Exit: Identity Constructions of Final Year UK Career Soldiers
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis of interviews with twenty-eight UK regular Army career soldiers and officers is presented, underpinned theoretically by a combination of Mead's pragmatism and Ricoeur's hermeneutics and constructs a typology of preexit orientation.