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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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When work is punishment: Penal subjectivities in punitive labor regimes:
TL;DR: This article argued that U.S. penal and welfare institutions comprise a single policy regime that has taken a punitive turn with carceral expansion and welfare contraction, and argued that less recog...
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Education and the reconstitution of social class in England
TL;DR: The authors argue that education and training to all levels are deeply implicated in this class reformation, not only by relegating an unskilled section of the previously manually working class to worthless vocational certification at one end, but in cramming for academic qualifications to restore social mobility at the other.
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Learning in neoliberal times: Private degree students and the politics of value coding in Singapore
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of how students are shaped by and pushing back against neoliberal discourses, by focusing on the ethnograph, is presented, focusing on how students push back against the discourses.
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Delinquency Research in the Nordic Countries
TL;DR: For example, this article found that Danish adolescents tend to have relatively similar prevalence levels of delinquent behavior, with a partial exception that Denmark adolescents have above-average levels of substance use and property offending.
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Gendered economies of extraction: seeking permanence amidst the rubble of Bengaluru’s construction industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the lives and labour of women and their families working in construction, focusing on a frequently overlooked demographic of co-contributors to Bengaluru's growth.