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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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Terroni and Polentoni : where does the truth lie? : an anthropology of social networks and ethnicity in Palermo (Sicily), Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the reduction of importance of the Italian nation-state, in relation to the emerging supra European Union state, renders much of Palermitan distinctiveness less relevant both economically and culturally.
Clearing for Action : Leadership as a Relational Phenomenon
TL;DR: Although leadership is deemed to matter, scholars seldom pay attention to the phenomenon itself, as it is happening as mentioned in this paper, but there is a lack of vocabulary for expressing what happens in leadership.
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Young people's education to work transitions and inter-generational social mobility in post-soviet central Asia
TL;DR: In this article, evidence gathered in 20 firms, matched by size and business sector, in each of three Central Asia cities (Almaty in Kazakhstan, Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, and Samarkand in Uzbekistan) was used to identify how families that were advantaged under the old (communist) system were continuing to reproduce their advantages intergenerationally.
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Peer group delinquency and sexual victimization: does popularity matter?
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of social network characteristics on adolescent sexual victimization has been investigated and two competing hypotheses have been proposed: popularity within a network insulates females from sexual victimisation and that popularity may increase exposure to delinquent others and facilitate sexual exploitation.