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New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Michael A. Lawson,Hal A. Lawson +1 more
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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.Abstract:
Student engagement research, policy, and practice are even more important in today’s race-to-the top policy environment. With a priority goal of postsecondary completion with advanced competence, today’s students must be engaged longer and more deeply. This need is especially salient for students attending schools located in segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods and isolated rural communities. Here, 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, engagement is conceptualized as a dynamic system of social and psychological constructs as well as a synergistic process. This conceptualization invites researchers, policymakers, and school-community leaders to develop improvement models that provide a more expansive, engagement-focused reach into students’ family, peer, and neighborhood ecologies.read more
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The flat world and education: how America’s commitment to equity will determine our future
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Student engagement, context, and adjustment: Addressing definitional, measurement, and methodological issues
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine relationships among context, student engagement, and adjustment, and provide a short overview of the papers in this special issue highlighting their theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and analytical techniques by which many of the challenges outlined in this introduction are addressed.
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Living and learning with new media : summary of findings from the digital youth project
TL;DR: The Digital Youth Project as discussed by the authors was a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to study how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings.
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Switching Schools Revisiting the Relationship Between School Mobility and High School Dropout
TL;DR: This paper used propensity score matching to pair youth who switched high schools with similar youth who stayed in the same school and found that while over half the association between switching schools and dropout is explained by observed characteristics prior to ninth grade, switching schools is still associated with dropout.
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Part II Commentary: Motivation and Engagement: Conceptual, Operational, and Empirical Clarity
TL;DR: A noted scholar in the field of engagement, Andrew Martin, provided commentary on the chapters in Part II. as discussed by the authors summarized the theories and definitions offered by authors in this part and shared his perspective on motivation and engagement.
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Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a social transformation theory of change to change the classroom social settings through attention to Norms, and found that teachers' interactions with students change as a setting-level intervention.
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Future Orientation, School Contexts, and Problem Behaviors: A Multilevel Study
Pan Chen,Alexander T. Vazsonyi +1 more
TL;DR: The negative association between adolescent future orientation and problem behaviors was stronger at schools with a more positive climate of future orientation, whereas school future orientation climate had a significant and unexpectedly positive relationship with problem behaviors for adolescents with low levels of future Orientation.
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Seeing the Destination but Not the Path: Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage on School-focused Possible Self Content and Linked Behavioral Strategies
TL;DR: Hierarchical linear modeling of data from a four-state low-income neighborhood sample of eighth-graders suggests two central consequences of family and neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation on children's school-focused possible identities and strategies.