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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	65
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	53
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	37
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	32
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university	30
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	26
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	25
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair	22
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	21
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”	20
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	20
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling	17
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives	16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	16
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses	15
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	15
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State	15
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	14
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?	14
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	14
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	12
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	11
Doctoral theses	11
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	11

Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	10
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education	10
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England	10
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	9
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	9
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	9
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	9
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	8
School socioeconomic-background effects are generally small: a response to Sciffer, Perry, and McConney	8
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea	8
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism	8
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach	8
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	8
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	8
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	8
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	8
‘I’m not sure where home is’: narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education	8
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	8
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	8
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North	7
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	7
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	7
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	7
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life	7
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university	7
Doctoral theses	7
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	7
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century	7
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	7
School differences on whether and where students apply to university	7
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation	6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	6
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	6
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	6
Challenging the skills fetish	6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	6
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
Doctoral theses	6
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Doctoral theses	5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	5
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy	5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	5
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care	5
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5

Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	5
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations	5
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities	5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	4
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities	4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates	4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes	4
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality	4
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences	4
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	4
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland	4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	4
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	4
Doctoral theses	4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	4
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice	4
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting	4
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices	4
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education	4