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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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Teenagers under the knife: a decivilising process
TL;DR: In this article, Wacquant's sociology of advanced marginality is combined with Norbert Elias' concept of civilising and decivilising processes and applied to the dilemma of young offenders in a typical UK city.
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Ethnicity, gender, deprivation and low educational attainment in England: Political arithmetic, ideological stances and the deficient society
TL;DR: Attainment data on England's school pupils are more extensive in coverage, detail, quantity, accessibility and of higher quality than monitoring statistics routinely available in other European cou... as discussed by the authors.
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Social Psychological Theory as History: Outlining the Critical-Historical Approach to Theory:
TL;DR: A third vision of critical-historical theory is proposed, committed to deep interdisciplinarity and historical validity claims—understanding individual and group experiences as part of historically contingent forces.
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Television News, Politics and Young People: Generation Disconnected?
TL;DR: In this paper, the crisis of political representation and the symbolic criminalisation of young people are discussed. And the boundaries of political debate: Animal Rights Apathetic or Excluded? Young people, News and the Electronic Media Talk Back: Young Audiences and Reception Conclusion: Is another television news paradigm possible?
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Formal education and intercultural capital: towards attachment beyond narrow ethno‐national boundaries?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on Bourdieu's notions of habitus and cultural capital, and regard people's attachments to country (and beyond) as learned and habituated, yet open to modification and reconstruction through reflexive agency, educational practices and the acquisition of intercultural capital.