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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of school closures on standardised student test outcomes178
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic49
Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy?41
Language, discipline and ‘teaching like a champion’25
A tale of two algorithms: The appeal and repeal of calculated grades systems in England and Ireland in 202024
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto22
Powerful knowledge, transformations andDidaktik/curriculum thinking21
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality21
A critical consideration of ‘mental health and wellbeing’ in education: Thinking about school aims in terms of wellbeing19
Education, merit and mobility: Opportunities and aspirations of refugee youth in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp18
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities16
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education16
The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research15
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach14
Post‐abyssal ethics in education research in settings of conflict and crisis: Stories from the field14
Cognition in art education14
Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys wholovereading fiction14
Critical Chinese as an Additional Language education in Australia: A journey to voices, courage and hope14
Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect13
Silence at school: Uses and experiences of silence in pedagogy at a secondary school13
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report13
Conditions for mental health in education: Towards relational practice13
Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section12
Understanding higher education access: Inequalities and early learning in low and lower‐middle‐income countries12
‘Off‐rolling’ and Foucault’s art of visibility/invisibility: An exploratory study of senior leaders’ views of ‘strategic’ school exclusion in southwest England12
Keeping educational research close to practice12
Global and local possible selves: Differentiated strategies for positional competition among Chinese university students12
Changes in Brazilian education policy and the rise of right‐wing populism12
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform11
Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities11
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications11
Sexting and institutional discourses of child protection: The views of young people and providers of relationship and sex education11
Should value‐added school effects models include student‐ and school‐level covariates? Evidence from Australian population assessment data11
Culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogy in a diverse urban classroom: Challenges of pedagogy for Syrian refugee youths and teachers in Turkey10
Social inequalities in early childhood competences, and the relative role of social and emotional versus cognitive skills in predicting adult outcomes10
Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative9
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China9
Theorising policy and practice in refugee education: Conceptualising ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘success’ and ‘participatory parity’ in England and Sweden9
Editorial: A case for diversity in educational research and educational practice9
A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK9
Guests in someone else’s house? Sense of belonging among ethnic minority students in a Hong Kong university9
Grade retention and academic self‐concept: A multilevel analysis of the effects of schools’ retention composition9
Twenty‐two testable hypotheses about phronesis: Outlining an educational research programme8
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 20148
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education8
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia8
The transnational in‐between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK: Mobility, variations and pathways8
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study8
Educating ‘others’: Drawing on the collective wisdom of intercultural experts7
Academic leisure crafting: More than a respite to breath?7
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
The contested relationships between educational research, theory and practice: Introduction to a special section7
Discursive constructions of equity in Australian higher education: Imagined worlds and the case of people seeking asylum7
Youth representations of environmental protest7
Understanding school mobility and mobile pupils in England7
Sorting or mixing? Multi‐track and single‐track schools and social inequalities in a differentiated educational system6
The role of growth mindset in shaping teachers' intercultural competencies: A study among Finnish teachers6
Absurdity of ‘the UK experience’ as a reflective resource in Kyoto6
Preventing violent extremism: Resourcing, stakeholder strategies and fostering belonging and connection in Australian schools6
(Re)framing a philosophical and epistemological framework for teaching and learning in STEM: Emerging pedagogies for complexity6
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time6
How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teachingfordiversity: Exploring a pedagogical framework for critical thinking6
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications6
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees6
Can failure be prevented? Using longitudinal data to identify at‐risk students upon entering secondary school6
Newcomer refugee and immigrant youth negotiate transnational civic learning and participation in school6
School experiences of Children in Need: Learning and support6
Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures6
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education5
The relationship between formative assessment and reading achievement: A multilevel analysis of students in 19 countries/regions5
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐195
Unequal childhoods: A case study application of Lareau’s ‘accomplishment of natural growth’ in British working‐class and poor families5
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors5
Getting in, getting on, going further: Exploring the role of employers in the degree apprentice to graduate transition5
The British State’s production of the Muslim School: A simultaneity of categories of difference analysis5
Black and minority ethnic student teachers' stories as empirical documents of hidden oppressions: Using the personal to turn towards the structural5
Giving the invisible hand a helping hand: How ‘Grants Offices’ work to nourish neoliberal researchers5
Achieving holistic care for refugees: The experiences of educators and other stakeholders in Surrey and Greater Vancouver, Canada5
The culture of disciplines: Reconceptualising multi‐subject curricula5
Ability as legitimation of tracking: Teachers' representations of students in vocational and academic tracks5
‘The participation group means that I'm low ability’: Students’ perspectives on the enactment of ‘mixed‐ability’ grouping in secondary school physical education5
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy4
Social inequalities in attaining higher education in Scotland: New evidence from sibling data4
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries4
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education4
Legitimising populist education in Israel: The role of religion4
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata4
Refugee education: Introduction to the special section4
Family engagement in alternative provision4
The role of achievement, gender, SES, location and policy in explaining the Indigenous gap in high‐school completion4
Employability skills in mainstream education: Innovations in schooling and institutional isomorphism4
‘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 voice4
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study4
Children in care in education: Who is entered for exams and who reaches critical thresholds of success at age 16?4
People and practice: defining education as an academic discipline4
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools4
Exploring cumulative disadvantage in early school leaving and planned post‐school pathways among those identified with special educational needs in Irish primary schools4
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England4
Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers4
Do less‐advantaged students avoid prestigious universities? An applicant‐centred approach to understanding UCAS decision‐making3
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19843
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying: Extended listening to South Australian young people on bullying and violence3
The International Education Index: A global approach to education policy analysis, performance and sustainable development3
The sensorium and fleshy schools3
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data3
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act3
Theorising the potential of physical education and school sport to support the educational engagement, transitions and outcomes of care‐experienced young people3
Mapping active civic learning in primary schools across England—A call to action3
The uses and abuses of boredom in the classroom3
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis3
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing3
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters3
The mental health of adolescents in England: How does it vary during their time at school?3
Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools3
‘We came together on the idea of being “foreign”’: Teacher narratives for the teaching of immigrant and refugee youth3
Children’s epistemic reasoning about social inclusion of aggressive peers in a culturally diverse school3
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia: Can extra classes help children to catch up?3
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme3
Pandemic, a catalyst for change: Strategic planning for digital education in English secondary schools, before during and post Covid3
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 how3
Contested childhoods across borders and boundaries: Insights from curriculum provisions in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the 1920s2
Care‐experienced students in higher education: A case for re‐figuring higher education worlds to widen access and further social justice2
Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy2
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
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19942
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?2
‘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‐experienc2
Individual participant data meta‐analysis of the impact of educational interventions on pupils eligible for Free School Meals2
‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England2
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support2
Principals' systems thinking and teachers' withdrawal behaviours: The intervening role of school structure and principal–teacher gender (dis)similarity2
Geographical mobility and children’s non‐completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter?2
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education2
Embodying the least‐adult role2
Impact of reciprocal peer observation on teacher collaboration perceptions2
Producing British education by Chinese parents: Fulfilling parenting responsibilities in WeChat2
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education2
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
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers2
Teacher autonomy: Good for pupils? Good for teachers?2
Student voice: Which supportive parental behaviours first‐generation immigrant students in Australia find beneficial2
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability2
Participating in professional development programmes or learning in the wild? Understanding the learning ecologies of Holocaust educators2
The meanings, risk factors and consequences of religious extremism: The perceptions of Islamic education teachers from Israel2
Professional noticing of coordinated mathematical thinking2
Unseen roots and unfolding flowers? Prison learning, equality and the education of socially excluded groups2
Reading intervention at age 6: Long‐term effects of Reading Recovery in the UK on qualifications and support at age 162
Preservice teacher perceptions of preparedness for teaching: Insights from survey research exploring the links between teacher professional standards and agency2
The decline in breaktimes and lunchtimes in primary and secondary schools in England: Results from three national surveys spanning 25 years2
Navigating the complex space of journal editing: Exploring the tensions between the intellectual and commercial dimensions of academic publishing2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1995 to 20042
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness2
The impact of political factors on international student mobility2
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet1
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland1
What is the evidence on the impact of Pupil Premium funding on school intakes and attainment by age 16 in England?1
How robust are socio‐economic achievement gradients usingPISAdata? A case study from Germany1
Me, my child and Covid‐19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China1
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis1
Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC1
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education1
Exploring the role of India’s secondary school compulsory curriculum textbooks in students’ national identity constructions in an overseas school1
Constructing and enacting language teacher identities: Distinctive pathways and divergent practices1
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20201
Education systems and academic stress—A comparative perspective1
Navigating educational success: Modes of expectation among care‐experienced young people1
Student mobility: Extent, impacts and predictors of a range of movement types for secondary school students in England1
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?1
The invisible support of community schools in a highly unequal education system: Exploring the experiences of minority pupils and teachers1
What are topic emotions? A comparison of children's emotional responses to climate change, climate change learning and climate change picturebooks1
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?1
Investigating the relationship between research income and research excellence in education: Evidence from the REF2021‐UoA23 data1
Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity1
Virtual schools for care‐experienced learners in Scotland: Reflections on an emerging concept in a new context1
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education1
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation1
Playful punctuation in primary children’s writing1
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2005 to 20141
Intergroup friendships between South Korean hosts and North Korean refugees: Implications for educational practices1
Capturing variations in how spelling is taught in primary school classrooms in England1
An ethico‐political analysis of a national teacher competence framework: Unravelling a ‘preferred’ teacher identity1
Does desegregation matter? A comparative study of school‐based social capital for university‐bound minority students in segregated and desegregated school contexts of Hong Kong1
Clarification for: Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section by Hussain and Yunus (2021)1
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery1
I and Thou? Challenges to dialogical pedagogy in a diverse London secondary school1
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample1
Representation of indigenous languages employing a religious screen for the discursive construction of students' postcolonial national identities: A curious case of ‘internal colonisation’ and ‘cultur1
Towards a mechanism for expert policy advice in education1
The educational experience of young people in residential care through the lens of learning careers1
Learning from failure: A context‐informed perspective on RCTs1
Data snapshots of the access and participation of ‘women’ academics in UK universities: Questioning continued gendered, racialised and geopolitical inequalities1
Accept or challenge? Exploring the experiences of pre‐service teachers from minoritised groups1
Exploring teachers' views of cultural capital in English schools1
The positioning tensions between early career teachers’ and mentors’ perceptions of the mentor role1
Setting research priorities for applied cognitive sciences—What do teachers want from research?1
A geopolitics of knowledge analysis of higher education internationalisation in Kazakhstan1
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia1
The effects of an online positive psychology intervention on pre‐service teachers' efficacy, ability to cope and emotional regulation1
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study1
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives1
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis1
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?1
Cultural capital, curriculum policy and teaching Latin1
The impact of test language on PISA scores. New evidence from Wales1
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐191
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts1
The impact of distributed leadership on teacher commitment: The mediation role of teacher workload stress and teacher well‐being1
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes1
Exploring teachers' strategies for navigating compulsory digital transformations in Danish primary and lower secondary schools1
Empowering children to speak up and act on social justice issues: The use of folktales and collaborative storytelling as tools of social imagination1
Barriers to domestic violence education in Northern Ireland: Pupils' views and experiences1
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal1
Thinking beyond deficits in Southwest China: Perspectives of ethnic minority teachers on academic achievement disparities among students1
The increasing use of private special schools: A policy gap for inclusive education1
Fragmented spaces in the urban landscape: A socio‐spatial analysis of educational supply in the city of Madrid1
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation1
The development of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for Forest School in the United Kingdom1
Out‐of‐school suspension among young persons in care: The need to respond to attachment needs and provide a secure base that promotes learning1
Failing children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in England: New evidence of poor outcomes and a postcode lottery at the Local Authority level at Key Stage 11
Tackling a lingering infirmity: On the nature and warrant of action research in education1
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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools1
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