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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	88
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	67
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	46
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	45
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	43
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	36
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	26
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	21
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	21
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	20
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	20
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France	17
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?	16
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	16
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	15
Doctoral theses	14
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	14
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	14
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	13
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	12
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	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	12

Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	12
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	11
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	11
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada	11
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	11
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	11
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	11
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	11
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	11
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	10
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	10
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	10
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	10
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	10
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	10
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	10
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	10
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	10
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life	9
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses	9
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	9
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	9
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	9
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	9
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom	9
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia	9
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century	9
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	8
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	8
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	8
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	8
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	7
Challenging the skills fetish	7
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	6
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	6
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	6
Doctoral theses	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	5
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice	5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	5
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	5
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	5
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China	5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences	5

Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	5
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	5
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	5
Doctoral theses	5
The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities	5
From optimism to disillusionment: meritocratic beliefs of working-class and lower-middle-class students in elite universities	4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	4
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality	4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices	4
Exceptional and decent people: mothering and school choice in the reproduction of social inequality	4
Conserving liberalism within values education	4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates	4
Before (e)valuating: student testing in History and Engineering	4
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations	4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	4
Stratified support: shadow education and maths achievement in East Asia’s six top-performing jurisdictions	4
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students	4
Enactment of moral education: Chinese teachers’ struggles and reflexivity in practice	4
Time in education policy transfer: the seven temporalities of global school reform	4
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences	4
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	4
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education	4
Doctoral theses	4
The Time Inheritors – How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China	4
The class-related educational strategies and national capital of Polish migrants in the UK (England)	4