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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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The surveillance of ‘prolific’ offenders: Beyond ‘docile bodies’:
Michael McCahill,Rachel L. Finn +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored how a sample of state-defined "prolific" offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a surveillance regime which includes "appointments", "tracking", "interviews", "drug testing", "electronic monitoring", "home visits", and "intelligence-led policing".
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Psychology graduates in the transition to employment:negotiating employability, identity and the meaning of higher education
TL;DR: This article examined the experience of psychology students and graduates in the transition from higher education to employment using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and thematic analysis (TA) of in-depth semi-structured individual interviews.
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Counter-narratives that challenge neo-liberal discourses of schooling ‘disengagement’: youth professionals informing the work of teachers
TL;DR: This article argued for a change in the way schooling authorities construct and respond to the phenomenon of "disengaged", "at risk", "dangerous" and "sick" youth who have become a focal point for official interventions that may be punitive or therapeutic or medical.
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Education is War: The Constitution of Postindustrial Learning
TL;DR: The authors argued that the theoretical and critical study of the formative role of warfare was neglected in inverse proportion to the academic effort devoted to war during the 20th century, and argued that this critical and theoretical avoidance was a function of the confluence of material conditions, the Cold War for instance, with the academic perception of society as generally peaceful, a perception largely based in the influence of Marx and Spencer.