OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology of Education is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	93
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	57
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	48
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	33
The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice	29
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	26
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction	25
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	23
Social reproduction theory revisited	22
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”	21
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling	20
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives	19
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	19
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	18
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair	15
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State	14
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	14
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses	14
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	13
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	13
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?	13
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	13
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	13
‘The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project	12
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education	12

‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	11
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	11
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	11
Doctoral theses	11
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	10
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	10
Mothers’ responsibility as transmitters of gendered moral rationalities: working-class Palestinian mothers living in Israel	10
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	10
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	10
‘I’m not sure where home is’: narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education	9
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	9
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	9
The truly advantaged: racial inequalities of educational opportunities among the privileged in the United States	9
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	8
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	8
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	8
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	8
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	8
School socioeconomic-background effects are generally small: a response to Sciffer, Perry, and McConney	7
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	7
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	7
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	7
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	7
The Left Hand of Data: designing Education Data for Justice	7
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	7
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces	7
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century	7
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	7
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	7
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life	7
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	7
Doctoral theses	7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	6
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	6
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths	6
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education	6
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	6
Doctoral theses	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	5
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	5
Challenging the skills fetish	5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	5
Doctoral theses	5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	5
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation	5
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	5
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance	5

Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities	4
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice	4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates	4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	4
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	4
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations	4
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities	4
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care	4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	4
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland	4
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	4
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy	4
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	4
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	4
Doctoral theses	4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	4