This article draws on qualitative data from the ‘Becoming Citizens of “Post-secular” Britain’ study to examine different ways in which religion becomes interwoven in affective citizenship in school...

Schools play a pivotal role in guiding students to become certain types of people. International schools strive to educate global citizens who are adaptable and culturally curious. As part of this ...

Choir schools in the UK are educational institutions that, alongside standard education provision, train young choristers to provide music for an attached religious institution, usually a cathedral...

This article looks at how institutional peer leadership roles in higher education reproduce social class inequalities. Through an ethnographic case study of Southern African Development Community (...

The persistent popularity of faith schools has been understood primarily through the prism of race and class, with less attention paid to the importance of religion and religious prejudice. Data fr...

Algorithmic tools promise solutions to educational challenges by automating core teaching tasks. This shift disrupts the traditional role of teachers and the distribution of agency between humans a...

No-excuses charter schools are a prominent urban education reform model in the United States. Although these schools have had success in getting students to college, the degree to which they prepar...

This article applies Foucault’s theories of surveillance, disciplinary power, and normalisation to examine the shifting power dynamics in AI-mediated education. Drawing on qualitative responses fro...

This article investigates how social inequality is reproduced through the recontextualization of mathematics pedagogy, using Dowling’s social activity method as an analytical framework. The study i...

Teacher-student interactions (TSIs) are crucial in shaping student learning attitudes and outcomes. Current literature primarily focuses on within-subject TSI effects, neglecting potential cross-su...

As the UN’s specialised agency for education and custodian of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2021), UNESCO has released a number of policy documents on AI in education...

In creative higher education (HE) undergraduate courses in the UK, women students are over-represented by a proportion of two-to-one. However, music HE shows almost the reverse gender balance, with...

This study examines how U.S. immigrant parents’ gender and age at arrival influence their parenting practices. Drawing on life course theory and classical assimilation theory, this research argues ...

Class-based parenting approaches assume that children in working-class environments participate less in extracurricular activities than those in affluent areas. However, there is a mediating role p...

This mixed-methods study is the first to examine schoolteachers’ perceptions and experiences of fee-based private tutoring in Kazakhstan. Data from 952 teachers using a close-ended questionnaire an...

This study investigates the relationship between parental social class and young people’s school examinations in England. This study uses a specialist data resource from the UK Household Longitudin...

This article addresses the significance of degrowth for education as a social institution and field of practice in the context of the climate crisis and need to develop a powerful climate justice m...

Among the factors that encourage the quality of education internationally, the social status of teachers is attracting particular attention. To date, the scientific literature has insisted that tea...

This qualitative study examines the home digital literacy practices of Aboriginal and Mainstream elementary-age children in Australia, highlighting how socio-economic and cultural factors influence...

This research examined cross-border Hong Kong students’ access to and accumulation of campus-based social capital (CBSC), and its influences upon their university navigation and persistence. The da...

In the last decades, the field of applied linguistics has called for an expanded knowledge on language learning in different learner groups and contexts, including forced migrants and low-literate ...

Over the past decade, dissatisfied with mainstream education, some Chinese middle-class parents have migrated to Dali in search of lifestyle changes and alternative education for their children. Bu...

This article explores the often-ignored embodied dimension of rurality and its role in shaping students’ transitions into higher education. Drawing on a ‘figured worlds’ framework, this narrative s...

Based on the life and educational histories of sixteen high-achieving, working-class girls applying to high-tariff universities, this paper rekindles debates about the role of agency within the dec...

Since the 1940s research has suggested that higher education has a liberalizing influence on sociopolitical orientation, although none has demonstrated how this might occur. In the U.S. there is an...

Since the 1940s research has suggested that higher education has a liberalizing influence on sociopolitical orientation, although none has demonstrated how this might occur. In the U.S. there is an...

Based on the life and educational histories of sixteen high-achieving, working-class girls applying to high-tariff universities, this paper rekindles debates about the role of agency within the dec...

This paper uses the critical realist concept of human reflexivity to dev­elop a theoretical critique of the notion of ‘skills’ in current policy discourses, particularly in vocational education. We...

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Explore the article collection: British Journal of Sociology of Education Best Early Career Article: Shortlisted Papers. Published in British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Racism is pervasive within the lives of racially minoritised pre-service teachers in England, but little work has explored how perceptions about language feature here. Based on interviews and works...

This article examines how shadow education is changing with digital platforms. Using the case of Egyptian education, it argues that digital learning platforms and social media platforms are profoun...

This article underscores the importance of contextualization when analysing values education. The interplay between societal values and those imparted within an educational context significantly af...