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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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Leaving Northern Ireland: youth mobility field, habitus and recession among undergraduates in Belfast
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the dichotomy between the high prevalence and low incidence of youth mobility intentions, utilising the results of quantitative and qualitative research conducted with 400 students during 2010 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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The art of becoming ‘Swedish’: Immigrant youth, school careers and life plans:
Thomas Johansson,Rita Olofsson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how young immigrants construct their life plans, and how this relates to their perceptions of ethnicity, neighbourhood and identity, and found that these young people try to adapt to certain normative expectations connected to the notion of Swedishness.
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"Narrow-Minded and Oppressive" or a "Superior Culture"? Implications of Divergent Representations of Islam for Pakistani-American Youth.
TL;DR: The authors examines the complex terrain that working-class Pakistani-American youth must negotiate in their daily lives, and illustrates how particular views of Islam and Americanization manifest in particular sites and within educational discourses, and the resulting dissonance that youth experience.
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Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through Their Reading Practices in and out of School.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, which is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1548-1492.2012.01177.x
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Troublesome Masculinities: Masculinity in Trouble
TL;DR: The authors argue that young men can be enlisted in the feminist struggle to transform ideologies and institutions of male power, but only by troubling both the notions of masculinity that underpin them as well as the structural inequalities within which they are enmeshed.