OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology of Education is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	46
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	30
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	27
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	22
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	19
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	18
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	18
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	18
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	17
Against School: Thinking Education Differently	17
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France	17
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in education,	17
‘I won’t remain here’: socially advantaged students and vocational education in China’s institutional tracking context	16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	15
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	15
‘There actually aren’t enough hours in the week’: a constructivist grounded theory of defending inaction on the implementation of intercultural education in Irish schools	15
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	14
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	13
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	13
Doctoral theses	13
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	12
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	12
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	12
Governing the desire: power, paradox and professionalism in further education	12

En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	12
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	11
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	11
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada	11
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	11
Between reflexivity and habitus: transnational academic mobility among Chinese-trained postdoctoral researchers in the United States	11
Reconstructing GenAI in education: a social systems theory approach	10
Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education	10
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	10
Relational care at work: educators’ practices and discourses of care across social inequalities	10
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	9
The ‘grammar’ of justice: how do governing boards advance social justice for racially minoritised learners?	9
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	9
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	9
Diluting exclusivity? The prevalence and distribution of bursaries and scholarships for Britain’s private schools	9
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	9
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	9
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	9
Navigating structure and agency: disadvantaged Chinese students’ motivations for international education mobility	9
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	9
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	8
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	8
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	8
Symbolic haunting: first-generation university students’ limited sense of entitlement	8
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	8
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	7
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	7
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	7
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	7
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom	7
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia	7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	7
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses	7
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	7
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	6
Conservative peripheral societies and the acquisition of higher education: multidimensional marginality	6
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	6
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	6
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	6
Doctoral theses	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
Doctoral theses	6
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	5
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences	5

How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	5
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	5
Mapping overseas education through local lens: valuation, merit, and hierarchy in Chinese students’ college applications	5
The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities	5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	5
Understanding racialised elements of habitus of working-class women on an access to higher education course	5
Post-schooling the elite: spaceX, cognitive platforming and educational abstraction	5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	5
Exposure to exclusion: cultural capital and the reshaping of privileged-caste logics in Indian private schools	5
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	5
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	5