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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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Possibilities in the Boy Turn? Comparative Lessons from Australia and Iceland
TL;DR: This paper provided a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the "boy turn" in Australia and Iceland and argued the need for a renewed feminist and profeminist agenda to challenge dominant constructions of masculinity and for the establishment of a more equal gender order.
Creativity, School Ethos and the Creative Partnerships programme
Sara Bragg,Helen Manchester +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the nature and impact of Creative Partnerships on school ethos and discuss creative school ethos under the headings: considerate, convivial and capacious.
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Without hope there is no life : class, affect, and meritocracy in middle class Cairo
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the lives of a group of young middle-class Egyptian men who experience a mismatch between their aspirations and their chances of realising them, and argue that these young men survive their classed and aged immobility through forming a "cruel attachment" to a discursive and material terrain of Egyptianised meritocracy that affects them with hope for the future.
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"The Market That Just Grew Up": How Eaton's Fashioned the Teenaged Consumer in Mid-twentieth-century Canada
TL;DR: Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Ph.D. in History, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.