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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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Beyond a psychology of student behaviour
TL;DR: The transdisciplinarity of Cooper's suggested model is important and points to the potential of the responses from across fields of knowledge to assist in building more transdisciplinary lines of inquiry as discussed by the authors.
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Taking pleasure seriously: the political significance of subcultural practice
Eleni Dimou,Jonathan Ilan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that subcultural theory continues to provide a relevant and useful analysis of youth leisure practices and their political significance in contemporary society, by analysing the theoretical antecedents to both sub-cultural theory and the post-subcultural theory that followed it.
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Consuming Talk: Youth Culture and the Mobile Phone
TL;DR: The growth in mobile phone use over the past decade and the commensurate advent of mobile phone culture can be seen as interrelated with contemporary youth culture as discussed by the authors, where the mobile phone allows young people to perform and maintain peer group associations, through which forms of solidarity, identification and differentiation are created.
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Othering Processes in Feminist Teaching: A case study of an adult educational institution
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore processes of othering in a feminist adult educational institution, Women's Room, in Sweden, where half of the student body has a migrant background and teachers present a fractured "we" who criticize the boundaries of difference while also constructing the migrant students as Others in the educational processes.
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Floating Downstream? Parental Support and Future Expectations of Young People from Less Privileged Backgrounds:
Sanna Aaltonen,Sakari Karvonen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of young people's orientations to the future in the context of intergenerational relations and show that the ingredients with which young people concoct their futures are in many ways grounded in their families' attempts to provide the most favourable support they can manage within the structural constraints and on the basis of the affordances that are available to them, but largely regardless of their class background.