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When Culture Is Not in the Students, and Learning Is Not in the Head

N. i. Suad Nasir
- 19 Mar 2004 - 
- Vol. 47, Iss: 2, pp 108-116
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This article is published in Human Development.The article was published on 2004-03-19. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Head (linguistics).

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The Right to Learn

TL;DR: The concept that any person, who wishes to assume the role of being a student, has a right to learning opportunities is presented and discussed in this article, and proactive policies aid procedures need to be developed and implemented to provide advantares in those instances where students already are placed at a disadvantage.
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Why Study the U.S. South? The Nexus of Race and Place in Investigating Black Student Achievement

TL;DR: The authors highlighted the significance of the U.S. South in scholarly discussions regarding the academic achievement gap involving Black students and highlighted the saliency of the South as a critical and neglected site for the investigation of such issues.
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Parent Involvement as Ritualized Practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the root paradigms of parent involvement (PI) are examined using Turner's concept of root paradigm, and the authors argue that the highly ritualized nature of PI practices creates a group identity among mainstream parents and schools that marginalizes diverse families.
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How African American Parents Understand Their and Teachers' Roles in Children's Schooling and What this Means for Preparing Preservice Teachers

TL;DR: In this article, a study of African American parents of young children who were preparing to transition to kindergarten or first grade was conducted, where the authors examined their ways of framing and enacting "involvement" in their children's school lives.
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Intersection of social institutions with civic development.

TL;DR: It is shown how recent studies support the proposition that institutions can serve as a resource to promote civic identity in youth from low-wealth and other settings and can constructively reorient developmental research and theory.
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Identity, youth, and crisis

TL;DR: Erikson as mentioned in this paper describes a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the inner space of the communal culture, and discusses the connection between individual struggles and social order.
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Reproduction in education, society and culture

TL;DR: The Second Edition of Bourdieu's Theory of Symbolic VIOLENCE as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the foundation of a theory of symbolic violence and its application in higher education.
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The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of cognitive class and education in the United States and the role of race and ethnicity in cognitive ability in the development of cognitive ability and the level of American education.
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Ethnic identity in adolescents and adults: Review of research.

TL;DR: A review of 70 studies of ethnic identity published in refereed journals since 1972 discusses the ways in which ethnic identity has been defined and conceptualized, the components that have been measured, and empirical findings.
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Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.

TL;DR: This provocative, carefully documented work shows how takingreflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps perpetuate them.