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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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'Community': a useful concept in heritage studies?
TL;DR: In this paper, the origins of the academic use of community in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present day arguing that its association with National Socialism has tainted the concept permanently.
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Pedagogies and curricula of everyday food practices : a critical ethnographic approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the pedagogic and curricula dimensions of people's food choices and practices as they are played out in their everyday lives and in their local community.
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School Leadership for Equity: Lessons from the Literature.
TL;DR: The authors examine some of the literature on school leadership for equity that post-dates Thrupp's [2003] call for teachers to offer more critical messages about social inequality and neoliberal and managerialist policies.
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona
TL;DR: In this article, Bruquetas-Callego presents a comparative analysis of a seemingly simple question: who decides at what level what is supposed to be done in classrooms receiving migrant children.
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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice
TL;DR: This article examined how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class, and social practice, focusing on the realisation of the happy vowel in Sheffield English, which is reported to be a lax variant [e] amongst working-class speakers but is undergoing change towards a tense variant [i] amongst middle class speakers.