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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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Exploring the Epistemological Fallacy Subjectivity and Class in the Lives of Young People
TL;DR: The relevance and continuation of class in late modern society has been at the heart of contemporary debates in youth studies as discussed by the authors, arguing that major social changes are impacting individu-...
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Lifetimes of Disposability and Surplus Entrepreneurs in Bagong Barrio, Manila
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the systematic production of lifetimes of disposability that drives labour migration across the generations and listen closely to the testimony of residents for ways of living that are both subsumed within and somewhat excessive to accounts that might render their lives as merely waste or wasted.
Senses of place among young people entrenched in a "local" drug scene : an urban ethnography
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Table of Table of Contents of the Table of contents of this paper................................................................................................................................. ii Preface................................................................................................................................... iv Table of
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Secondary education expansion in Tanzania, 2004-2012: a political economy perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a 3.3-approximation algorithm for the 3.1-GHz bandit-16.3 GHz frequency bandit model, and
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Contacts and contracts: Economic embeddedness and ethnic stratification in London’s construction market
TL;DR: In this article, a participant observation on a London construction site in 2003/4 demonstrates how labour and contract markets were informally regulated and reproduced, characterized by alternative exchange forms that sometimes involved illegitimate practices.