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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 Transformative Journeys through a Higher Education Programme: In a Further Education College
Eddie Rocks,Peter Lavender +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the experiences of students undertaking higher education in a further education setting in the UK and found that participants all experienced some significant shift in attributes such as confidence, independence and willingness to try new things.
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‘Folkbildning’ through hip-hop: how the ideals of three rappers parallel a Scandinavian educational tradition
TL;DR: In this paper, interviews have been conducted with three rappers who follow the pedagogical way presented in hip-hop. Although, semi-structured and conversational, there was a clear focus on hip hop and learning in the discussions.
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The rapid redrawing of boundaries in Japanese higher education
TL;DR: The authors examines the fundamental changes which are currently taking place in Japanese higher education and shows how the different responses of Japanese universities to these new challenges is leading to an increasingly diversified higher education sector with major implications for the future of teaching, research and administration.
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Reclaiming Respectability? The Class-cultural Dynamics of Crime, Community and Governance in Inner-city Dublin
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that nuances of class-cultural identity dictate the character of partnership governance at the community level with particular implications for local regeneration and crime control agendas.
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Inadequacies in the SES–Achievement model: Evidence from PISA and other studies
Gary N. Marks,Michael O'Connell +1 more
TL;DR: Marks et al. as mentioned in this paper found that SES has only moderate effects on student achievement, and its effects are especially weak when considering prior achievement, an important and relevant predictor.