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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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Builders, bodies and bifurcations: How London construction workers ‘learn to labour’
TL;DR: This paper examined how the ideas about working-class culture presented in Paul Willis's classic monograph (1977) Learning to Labour apply or do not apply to the data generated by an ethnographic survey.
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Fresh grounds : African migrants in a South African primary school
TL;DR: The authors found that the migrants do not internalise the negative stereotypes against African foreigners, instead they display a cosmopolitan identity around the opportunities and resources available and set high aspirations for their success.
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An anthropological study of ethnicity and the reproduction of culture among Hong Kong Chinese families in Scotland
TL;DR: Hong Kong Chinese people in Scotland learn to "be ethnic" while living in a Western, multi-national, and multicultural society as mentioned in this paper, which is also important for the nurture of inter-generational relationships.
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Gendered Post-Compulsory Educational Choices of Non-Heterosexual Youth:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how gender, class and sexual orientation were constructed as meaningful factors in the educational choices of non-heterosexual young people, and they argue that, in addition to class and gender, sexuality is another relevant factor affecting processes related to educational and career choices.
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The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on young Russian-speaking migrants' day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland and present an analysis that contributes to the discussion on labour a...