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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	49
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	33
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	31
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	30
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	23
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	22
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	20
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	20
Against School: Thinking Education Differently	19
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	19
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in education,	19
‘I won’t remain here’: socially advantaged students and vocational education in China’s institutional tracking context	18
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	18
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France	17
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	16
‘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	16
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	15
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	15
Doctoral theses	15
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	15
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	14
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	13
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada	13
Governing the desire: power, paradox and professionalism in further education	13
Between reflexivity and habitus: transnational academic mobility among Chinese-trained postdoctoral researchers in the United States	13

En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	13
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	13
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	13
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	12
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	12
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	12
The ‘grammar’ of justice: how do governing boards advance social justice for racially minoritised learners?	11
Reconstructing GenAI in education: a social systems theory approach	11
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	11
Diluting exclusivity? The prevalence and distribution of bursaries and scholarships for Britain’s private schools	11
Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education	11
Relational care at work: educators’ practices and discourses of care across social inequalities	11
Navigating structure and agency: disadvantaged Chinese students’ motivations for international education mobility	11
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	10
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	10
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	10
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	10
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	10
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	9
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	9
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	9
Toward a sociology of education and artificial intelligence	9
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	9
Symbolic haunting: first-generation university students’ limited sense of entitlement	8
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom	8
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	8
Roots and leaves: rethinking the relationship between habitus and identity	8
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses	8
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	8
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia	8
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	7
Conservative peripheral societies and the acquisition of higher education: multidimensional marginality	7
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	7
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	7
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	7
Translanguaging knowledge mobilised for theorising: a case study of Chinese bilingual postgraduate researchers in Australia	7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	7
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	7
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	6
Announcement of doctoral theses	6
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences	6
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	6
The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities	6
Doctoral theses	6
Mapping overseas education through local lens: valuation, merit, and hierarchy in Chinese students’ college applications	6
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	6
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	6

Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	6
What makes bullying complicated - teachers’ perceptions of bullying-related issues in school	6
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	6
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	5
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	5
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	5
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	5
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	5
The UK field of higher education institutions and its homologies: class, gender and race	5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China	5
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	5
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	5
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	5
Stratified support: shadow education and maths achievement in East Asia’s six top-performing jurisdictions	5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	5
Post-schooling the elite: spaceX, cognitive platforming and educational abstraction	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
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	5
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	5
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations	5
Understanding racialised elements of habitus of working-class women on an access to higher education course	5