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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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Meritocracy as Plutocracy: The Marketising of 'Equality' Under Neoliberalism
TL;DR: The authors argue that the ideology of "meritocracy" has become a key means through which plutocracy is endorsed by stealth within contemporary neoliberal culture, arguing that the notion of meritocracy is a potent blend of an essentialised and exclusionary notion of "talent", competitive individualism and the need for social mobility.
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Applying Thematic Analysis to Education: A Hybrid Approach to Interpreting Data in Practitioner Research:
Wen Xu,Katina Zammit +1 more
TL;DR: Thematic analysis (TA) as a qualitative analytic method is widely used in health care, psychology, and beyond as discussed by the authors, however, scant details are often given to demonstrate the process of data analysis.
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Influence of work history on entrepreneurial intentions in ‘prime age’ and ‘third age’: A preliminary study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between an individual's socialization into different professional and organizational cultures and their subsequent entrepreneurial intentions and found that older individuals, those aged 50-plus, who have spent the majority of their career in blue-collar industrial work are less inclined towards entrepreneurship than the working-age population in Western Finland generally.
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School Suspensions and Adverse Experiences in Adulthood
Kerrin C. Wolf,Aaron Kupchik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that being suspended from school increases the likelihood that a student will experience criminal victimization and the likelihood of experiencing a number of adverse events and outcomes when they are adults, including increased academic difficulties, increased misconduct and future justice system contact.
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Unpacking the black box: the problem of agency in the sociology of youth
Julia Coffey,David Farrugia +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the nature and conceptual meaning of agency remain ambiguous: agency is a "black box" which while fundamental to youth sociology remains unpacked, does not serve the ethical commitments of a politically engaged discipline.