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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	78
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages	58
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia	40
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED	37
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city	32
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	27
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-19	24
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools	23
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling	23
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy	19
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	17
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	17
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives	17
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State	16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives	16
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business	15
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	12
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals	12
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom	11
Doctoral theses	11
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care	11
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education	10
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?	10

Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities	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
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy	10
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study	10
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making	9
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves	9
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China	9
From robots who teach to synthetic politics	9
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act	9
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status	9
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus	9
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China	8
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany	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
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice	8
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability	8
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?	7
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy	7
Doctoral theses	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
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy	7
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century	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	6
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation	6
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement	6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college	6
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism	6
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education	6
Doctoral theses	6
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance	6
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation	6
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models	6
Challenging the skills fetish	6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation	6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study	6
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities	5
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class	5
Announcement of doctoral theses	5
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations	5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative	5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Doctoral theses	5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition	5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education	5

Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’	4
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice	4
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy	4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick	4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust	4
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland	4
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care	4
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities	4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics	4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices	4
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting	4
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study	4
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations	4
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID	4
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities	4
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices	4
Doctoral theses	4
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality	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