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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 Cost of Performance? Students' Learning about Acting as Change Agents in Their Schools.
TL;DR: The authors explored how performance culture could affect students' learning about, and disposition towards, acting as organisational change agents in schools based on findings from an initiative aimed to enable students to experience acting as change agents on an aspect of the school's culture that concerned them.
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The makings of a man: social generational masculinities in Bangladesh
TL;DR: The emergence of specific forms of masculinity is bounded by space and time as discussed by the authors, and while much attention has been given to the contexts within which men develop, rather less is known about men.
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Negotiating marginality : young men's post-industrial transitions in the context of a sports-based intervention project
TL;DR: In this article, a socio-culturally and economically distinct urban locales undergoing an ongoing evolution into post-industrial neighbourhoods, and how the young men who inhabit them are exploring and constructing new identities in attempts to transcend the exclusionary logic of postindustrial living.
A historical and comparative analysis of multiplatform books for young readers: technologies of production, user-generated content, and economics of immaterial and affective labor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the influence of the Progressive Era on librarianship in the 20th century and its influence on publishing in the 30th and 40th centuries.