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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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Education is the strongest socio-economic predictor of smoking in pregnancy.
Juho Härkönen,Juho Härkönen,Juho Härkönen,Matti Lindberg,Linnea Karlsson,Linnea Karlsson,Hasse Karlsson,Hasse Karlsson,Noora M. Scheinin,Noora M. Scheinin +9 more
TL;DR: In Finland, socio‐economic disparities in smoking in pregnancy are attributable primarily to differences in the mother's educational level (low versus high) and orientation (vocational versus general).
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Multiple Marginality and Urban Education: Community and School Socialization Among Low-Income Mexican-Descent Youth
TL;DR: In this article, the crucial social and developmental features impacting Mexican-descent youth and adolescents in low-income communities in southern California are conceptualized, and the authors push researchers to critically examine the education of low income youth through a multiple marginality framework.
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Child labour, agency and family dynamics The case of mining in Katanga (DRC)
Géraldine Andre,Marie Godin +1 more
TL;DR: In the last three decades, the development of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been increasing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), bringing more and more urban families.
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Graduate transition to work : from qualifications and skills towards horizontal expertise
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Mining postsocialism: work, class and ethnicity in an Estonian mine
TL;DR: The authors explored the changing work and lives of Russian-speaking miners in Estonia, showing what it means to be a miner in a situation in which the working class has been stripped of its glorified status and stable and affluent lifestyle, and has been stigmatised and orientalised as Other.