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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	84
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	61
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	42
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	41
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	40
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	34
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	28
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	25
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	24
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	24
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling	20
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	19
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives	18
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	17
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	17
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	16
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?	15
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses	15
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	14
Doctoral theses	13
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	12
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	12
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	11
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	11
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	11

Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	11
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	11
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	11
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education	11
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	11
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	10
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	10
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	10
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	10
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	10
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	9
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	9
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	9
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	9
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	9
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	9
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	9
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	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
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century	8
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life	8
Doctoral theses	8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	8
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	8
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	8
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation	7
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	7
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	7
Challenging the skills fetish	6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	6
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	6
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	6
Doctoral theses	6
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	6
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	5
Doctoral theses	5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	5
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy	5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	5

The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice	5
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations	5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	5
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities	5
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences	4
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality	4
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	4
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations	4
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care	4
From optimism to disillusionment: meritocratic beliefs of working-class and lower-middle-class students in elite universities	4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates	4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	4
Doctoral theses	4
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices	4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	4