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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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Neoliberalizing race? Diverse youths’ lived experiences of race in school choice:
TL;DR: This paper examined how diverse youths make sense of, and negotiate, race within and between schools in making "choices" in the local context of a historically racialized urban geography, and showed that neoliberal reforms of education do not erase, but rather reconstruct, racial identities and divisions by shedding light on 59 students' accounts of racial exclusion and their constructions of new racial stereotypes.
Toward an Analytic Sociology: Reconciling Structural and Individualistic Explanations of Social Phenomena via a Theory of Embodied Practice
TL;DR: Polyakov et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an alternative theory of embodied practice, inspired by Charles Taylor's Heideggerian conception of embodied agency, which can account for both change and stability in society and can be profitably employed in applied social analysis and political theory.
What a girl wants : An ethnographic study on the aspirations of ‘white’ Dutch girls in multi-ethnic vocational schools : Wat een meisje wil : Een etnografische studie naar de beroepsaspiraties van ‘witte’ Nederlandse meisjes op multi-etnische vmbo- en mbo-scholen
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on minority 'white' Dutch girls in schools where the majority of children are of immigrant origin and provide detailed insights into how these minority "white" Dutch girls function within the Netherlands' complicated school system.
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Extraordinary acts and ordinary pleasures: Rhetorics of inequality in young people’s talk about celebrity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how young people make sense of these inequalities in their talk about celebrity, and extend Billig's work by looking at a larger class of public figures than royalty.
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The everyday world of bouncers: a rehabilitated role for covert ethnography:
TL;DR: In this paper, the focus of the article is on the everyday world of bouncers in the night-time economy of Manchester, England, and the structure is to contextualise my covert passing in this demonized...