British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of British Educational Research Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of school closures on standardised student test outcomes147
The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study36
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic36
Becoming digitally literate: Reinstating an educational lens to digital skills policies for adults24
Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy?24
Why close to practice is not enough: Neglecting practice in educational research23
Education research and educational practice: The qualities of a close relationship22
‘It’s never okay to say no to teachers’: Children’s research consent and dissent in conforming schools contexts21
Language, discipline and ‘teaching like a champion’21
Experiment’s persistent failure in education inquiry, and why it keeps failing20
A tale of two algorithms: The appeal and repeal of calculated grades systems in England and Ireland in 202020
Reflecting on three creative approaches to informed consent with children under six19
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto17
Powerful knowledge, transformations andDidaktik/curriculum thinking17
Education, merit and mobility: Opportunities and aspirations of refugee youth in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp15
A critical consideration of ‘mental health and wellbeing’ in education: Thinking about school aims in terms of wellbeing15
To Freire or not to Freire: Educational freedom and the populist right‐wing ‘Escola sem Partido’ movement in Brazil14
Post‐abyssal ethics in education research in settings of conflict and crisis: Stories from the field14
Practitioners' perspectives and experiences of supporting bilingual pupils on the autism spectrum in two linguistically different educational settings13
Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’13
Variation in education doctoral students’ conceptions of university teaching13
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach13
‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools13
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities12
Conditions for mental health in education: Towards relational practice12
The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research12
Mapping continuity and change in the intellectual structure of the knowledge base on problem‐based learning, 1974–2019: A systematic review12
The policy and practice of music education in England, 2010–202011
New Right 2.0: Teacher populism on social media in England11
Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction11
Cognition in art education11
‘Off‐rolling’ and Foucault’s art of visibility/invisibility: An exploratory study of senior leaders’ views of ‘strategic’ school exclusion in southwest England11
Critical Chinese as an Additional Language education in Australia: A journey to voices, courage and hope11
Grade retention and academic self‐concept: A multilevel analysis of the effects of schools’ retention composition10
Culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogy in a diverse urban classroom: Challenges of pedagogy for Syrian refugee youths and teachers in Turkey10
Keeping educational research close to practice10
Silence at school: Uses and experiences of silence in pedagogy at a secondary school10
Changes in Brazilian education policy and the rise of right‐wing populism10
Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section10
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality10
Should value‐added school effects models include student‐ and school‐level covariates? Evidence from Australian population assessment data10
Global and local possible selves: Differentiated strategies for positional competition among Chinese university students9
Sexting and institutional discourses of child protection: The views of young people and providers of relationship and sex education9
Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect9
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education9
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform9
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report9
Understanding higher education access: Inequalities and early learning in low and lower‐middle‐income countries9
Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation8
Knowledge hustlers: Gendered micro‐politics and networking in UK universities8
How can video‐based assignments integrate practical and conceptual knowledge in summative assessment? Student experiences from a longitudinal experiment8
Editorial: A case for diversity in educational research and educational practice8
Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities8
Does research‐informed teaching transform academic practice? Revealing a RIT mindset through impact analysis7
The contested relationships between educational research, theory and practice: Introduction to a special section7
Logics, rhetoric and ‘the blob’: Populist logic in the Conservative reforms to English schooling7
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data7
Educating ‘others’: Drawing on the collective wisdom of intercultural experts7
The transnational in‐between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK: Mobility, variations and pathways7
Guests in someone else’s house? Sense of belonging among ethnic minority students in a Hong Kong university7
A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK7
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 20147
Twenty‐two testable hypotheses about phronesis: Outlining an educational research programme7
Internationalisation of higher education: A critical analysis of the intercultural dimension of a visiting scholar programme7
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications7
Social inequalities in early childhood competences, and the relative role of social and emotional versus cognitive skills in predicting adult outcomes7
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education6
To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds6
Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative6
Youth representations of environmental protest6
Absurdity of ‘the UK experience’ as a reflective resource in Kyoto6
The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure6
Theorising policy and practice in refugee education: Conceptualising ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘success’ and ‘participatory parity’ in England and Sweden6
Can failure be prevented? Using longitudinal data to identify at‐risk students upon entering secondary school6
The culture of disciplines: Reconceptualising multi‐subject curricula6
Factors influencing the career interest of SENCOs in English schools6
Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures5
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees5
(Re)framing a philosophical and epistemological framework for teaching and learning in STEM: Emerging pedagogies for complexity5
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia5
Understanding school mobility and mobile pupils in England5
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China5
Discursive constructions of equity in Australian higher education: Imagined worlds and the case of people seeking asylum5
Academic leisure crafting: More than a respite to breath?5
The British State’s production of the Muslim School: A simultaneity of categories of difference analysis5
Giving the invisible hand a helping hand: How ‘Grants Offices’ work to nourish neoliberal researchers5
The role of school‐based research champions in a school–university partnership5
Integrating data in a complex mixed‐methods classroom interaction study5
How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teaching for diversity: Exploring a pedagogical framework for critical thinking5
Unequal childhoods: A case study application of Lareau’s ‘accomplishment of natural growth’ in British working‐class and poor families5
Legitimising populist education in Israel: The role of religion4
What PISA and ASPIRES studies tell us about the nuanced influence of cultural capital on student learning: Construct complexity, student outcomes and contexts4
Getting in, getting on, going further: Exploring the role of employers in the degree apprentice to graduate transition4
The great stagnation of upper secondary education in England: A historical and system perspective4
Newcomer refugee and immigrant youth negotiate transnational civic learning and participation in school4
Theatre and drama education and populism: The ensemble ‘family’ as a space for dialogic empathy and civic care4
Employability skills in mainstream education: Innovations in schooling and institutional isomorphism4
Picking winners: An empirical analysis of the determinants of educational outcomes in India4
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors4
Refugee education: Introduction to the special section4
People and practice: defining education as an academic discipline4
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time4
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐194
The role of achievement, gender, SES, location and policy in explaining the Indigenous gap in high‐school completion4
Ability as legitimation of tracking: Teachers' representations of students in vocational and academic tracks4
Preventing violent extremism: Resourcing, stakeholder strategies and fostering belonging and connection in Australian schools4
Sorting or mixing? Multi‐track and single‐track schools and social inequalities in a differentiated educational system4
Family engagement in alternative provision4
Achieving holistic care for refugees: The experiences of educators and other stakeholders in Surrey and Greater Vancouver, Canada4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study4
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools4
School experiences of Children in Need: Learning and support3
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries3
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing3
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education3
Reconsidering assent for randomised control trials in education: Ethical and procedural concerns3
The mental health of adolescents in England: How does it vary during their time at school?3
Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies3
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19843
I quit! Is there an association between leaving teaching and improvements in mental health?3
Destabilising data: The use of creative data visualisation to generate professional dialogue3
Education and psychological distress in adolescence and mid‐life: Do private schools make a difference?3
‘University is a non‐Muslim experience, you know? The experience is as good as it can be’: Satisfied settling in Muslim students’ experiences and implications for Muslim student voice3
The sensorium and fleshy schools3
‘The participation group means that I'm low ability’: Students’ perspectives on the enactment of ‘mixed‐ability’ grouping in secondary school physical education3
Children in care in education: Who is entered for exams and who reaches critical thresholds of success at age 16?3
Disenchanting secularism (or the cultivation of soul) as pedagogy in resistance to populist racism and colonial structures in the academy3
Social inequalities in attaining higher education in Scotland: New evidence from sibling data3
Analysing the experiences of casual relief teachers in Australian primary schools using practice architecture theory3
The role of growth mindset in shaping teachers' intercultural competencies: A study among Finnish teachers3
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying: Extended listening to South Australian young people on bullying and violence3
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia: Can extra classes help children to catch up?3
Students as political actors? Similarities and differences across six European nations3
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme3
Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers3
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act3
Children’s education rights at the transition to secondary education: School choice in Northern Ireland3
‘We came together on the idea of being “foreign”’: Teacher narratives for the teaching of immigrant and refugee youth3
Pedagogical devices as children’s social care levers: A study of social care workers’ attitudes towards boarding schools to care for and educate children in need3
Keeping company: Educating for online friendship3
Individual participant data meta‐analysis of the impact of educational interventions on pupils eligible for Free School Meals2
Contested childhoods across borders and boundaries: Insights from curriculum provisions in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the 1920s2
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study2
Exemplarity and education: Retuning educational research2
Using autobiographical comics to explore life stories and school experiences of pre‐service early childhood educators2
Embodying the least‐adult role2
Do less‐advantaged students avoid prestigious universities? An applicant‐centred approach to understanding UCAS decision‐making2
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata2
Reading intervention at age 6: Long‐term effects of Reading Recovery in the UK on qualifications and support at age 162
The uses and abuses of boredom in the classroom2
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications2
Exploring cumulative disadvantage in early school leaving and planned post‐school pathways among those identified with special educational needs in Irish primary schools2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1995 to 20042
Black and minority ethnic student teachers' stories as empirical documents of hidden oppressions: Using the personal to turn towards the structural2
Isolation and aspiration: Deaf adults reflect on the educational legacy of special schooling2
Relative age and the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile: How do birth month and peer group age composition determine attribution of a ‘Good Level of Development’—and what does this tell us about how2
Unseen roots and unfolding flowers? Prison learning, equality and the education of socially excluded groups2
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters2
The relationship between child behaviour problems at school entrance and teenage vocabulary acquisition: A comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart2
Tiering in the GCSE: A children’s rights perspective2
The intersection of environmental and sustainability education, and character education: An instrumental case study2
Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces2
Navigating the complex space of journal editing: Exploring the tensions between the intellectual and commercial dimensions of academic publishing2
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support2
Special issue: Ethical questions in educational research2
Pandemic, a catalyst for change: Strategic planning for digital education in English secondary schools, before during and post Covid2
The meanings, risk factors and consequences of religious extremism: The perceptions of Islamic education teachers from Israel2
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education2
Professional noticing of coordinated mathematical thinking2
Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy2
Children’s epistemic reasoning about social inclusion of aggressive peers in a culturally diverse school2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19942
Understanding adult education in community contexts: A critical realist perspective2
Social justice education with Chinese characteristics: An example from Shanghai2
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy1
Care‐experienced students in higher education: A case for re‐figuring higher education worlds to widen access and further social justice1
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes1
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia1
Clarification for: Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section by Hussain and Yunus (2021)1
Me, my child and Covid‐19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China1
Preservice teacher perceptions of preparedness for teaching: Insights from survey research exploring the links between teacher professional standards and agency1
Levelling the playing field between rural schools and urban schools in a HE context: A Scottish case study1
The educational experience of young people in residential care through the lens of learning careers1
Silencing and freedom of speech in UK higher education1
‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England1
Intergroup friendships between South Korean hosts and North Korean refugees: Implications for educational practices1
Student mobility: Extent, impacts and predictors of a range of movement types for secondary school students in England1
The development of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for Forest School in the United Kingdom1
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet1
Geographical mobility and children’s non‐completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter?1
Theorising the potential of physical education and school sport to support the educational engagement, transitions and outcomes of care‐experienced young people1
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?1
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education1
Out‐of‐school suspension among young persons in care: The need to respond to attachment needs and provide a secure base that promotes learning1
Ethical considerations for research conducted with human participants in languages other than English1
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Exploring the role of India’s secondary school compulsory curriculum textbooks in students’ national identity constructions in an overseas school1
Cultural capital, curriculum policy and teaching Latin1
Navigating educational success: Modes of expectation among care‐experienced young people1
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery1
Teacher autonomy: Good for pupils? Good for teachers?1
Producing British education by Chinese parents: Fulfilling parenting responsibilities in WeChat1
Towards a mechanism for expert policy advice in education1
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal1
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis1
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education1
A key leadership issue of the twenty‐first century: Religion in schools in England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland1
Playful punctuation in primary children’s writing1
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2005 to 20141
What is the evidence on the impact of Pupil Premium funding on school intakes and attainment by age 16 in England?1
Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity1
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis1
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The experience of school in Scotland, 1970s to 1990s1
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives1
‘I make a lot of the choices myself—I think I've taught myself that through the imbalance of support’: The internal conversations, reflexivity and post‐school educational achievement of care‐experienc1
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts1
The International Education Index: A global approach to education policy analysis, performance and sustainable development1
Barriers to domestic violence education in Northern Ireland: Pupils' views and experiences1
The relationship between formative assessment and reading achievement: A multilevel analysis of students in 19 countries/regions1
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study1
The impact of political factors on international student mobility1
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis1
Principals' systems thinking and teachers' withdrawal behaviours: The intervening role of school structure and principal–teacher gender (dis)similarity1
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