Showing papers in "British Journal of Sociology of Education in 2020"
TL;DR: Friedman and Laurison as mentioned in this paper close their compelling book with a simple set of statements: “In contemporary Britain it quite literally pays to be privileged. Even when individuals from working-c...
Abstract: Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison close their compelling book with a simple set of statements: “In contemporary Britain it quite literally pays to be privileged. Even when individuals from working-c...
67 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a small number of working-class individuals and propose a method to represent social justice and explain away class inequality using a small subset of working class individuals.
Abstract: Meritocracy is used by governments in many societies as an ‘effective’ way to represent social justice and legitimise – explain away – class inequality. By focusing on a small number of working-cla...
34 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment and that during adolescence, friends increasingly function as significant others and can affect the development of these expectations.
Abstract: Educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment. Throughout adolescence, friends increasingly function as ‘significant others’ and, thus, can affect the development of these ...
27 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined Chinese international doctoral students' academic socialization into TESOL discourses and communities, rooted in the academic discourse socialization theory, and complemented by the social mobility theory.
Abstract: This study examines Chinese international doctoral students’ academic socialization into TESOL discourses and communities. Rooted in the academic discourse socialization theory, complemented by the...
26 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored how one cohort of first-in-family students narrated their movement into and through university, proposed as a form of boundary crossing, and found that these metaphors emerged from the stor...
Abstract: This article explores how one cohort of first-in-family students narrated their movement into and through university, proposed as a form of boundary crossing. These metaphors emerged from the stori...
26 citations
TL;DR: Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in the globalization of education.
Abstract: Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in ...
24 citations
TL;DR: The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Fo...
23 citations
TL;DR: This article developed the concept of cosmopolitan nationalism and suggested ways sociologists of education might draw on it in their future work, and showed how it can be used in their own work.
Abstract: In this essay we develop the concept of ‘cosmopolitan nationalism’, offering a working definition and suggesting ways sociologists of education might draw on it in their future work. We show how it...
23 citations
TL;DR: The acquisition of cultural capital can only be understood in the light of the formation of habitus, including the socialisation process, and in the context of the field in which any such c... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The acquisition of cultural capital can only be understood in the light of the formation of habitus, including the socialisation process, and in the context of the field in which any such c...
23 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how white privilege and a hierarchy of oppression have resulted in competing identities in which gender has been given greater importance compared to race, and argue that the so...
Abstract: This article explores how White privilege and a hierarchy of oppression have resulted in competing identities in which gender has been given greater importance compared to race. I argue that the so...
23 citations
TL;DR: The authors consider the sociology of education as a modern human science and suggest that SOE is mired in a set of unreflexive, redemptive, Enlightment rationalities.
Abstract: This paper considers the sociology of education (SOE) as a modern human science. It suggests that the SOE is mired in a set of unreflexive, redemptive, Enlightment rationalities, and explores the m...
TL;DR: This article explored 5th and 6th grade pupils' reflections on why they may refrain from intervening in bullying, despite understanding that bullying is wrong, based on focus-driven focus learning.
Abstract: The article explores 5th and 6th grade pupils’ reflections on why pupils may refrain from intervening in bullying, despite understanding that bullying is wrong. The findings are based on focus grou...
TL;DR: The heterogeneity of the contemporary Indian middle-class has been discussed widely as mentioned in this paper, however, the effect of its internal differences on the distribution of educational resources needs to be examined, as well as the impact of the internal differences in education resources.
Abstract: The heterogeneity of the contemporary Indian middle-class has been discussed widely. However, the effect of its internal differences on the distribution of educational resources needs to be examine...
TL;DR: The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity as discussed by the authors, and public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educa...
Abstract: The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educ...
TL;DR: A prominent explanation of intergenerational educational inequality is Bourdieu's cultural reproduction theory as mentioned in this paper, and previous studies have frequently shown that children's cultural capital relativizes with their parents' cultural capital.
Abstract: A prominent explanation of intergenerational educational inequality is Bourdieu’s cultural reproduction theory. Indeed, previous studies have frequently shown that children’s cultural capital relat...
TL;DR: This article explored the way policies are framed by academic performance and health as a reason for providing school meals, and found that academic performance was not the only reason for improving school meals.
Abstract: Policy makers in the UK are trying to improve school meals, by focusing on eating well. This article explores the way policies are framed by academic performance and health as a reason for providin...
TL;DR: The authors argue that occupations are strong determinants of which skills, skills, or certifications, should be acquired to obtain a job, and that credentials are a good indicator of skills, knowledge, and ability.
Abstract: An ongoing debate is centred around the question of how we can understand the value of university credentials in accessing jobs. We know that occupations are strong determinants of which skills, kn...
TL;DR: In this article, school socio-economic compositional effects have been influential in educational research predicting a range of outcomes and influencing public policy, however, some recent studies have challen...
Abstract: School socio-economic compositional (SEC) effects have been influential in educational research predicting a range of outcomes and influencing public policy. However, some recent studies have chall...
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for conceptualizing transitions from Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs to Higher Education (HE), by bringing together Bourdieu and Bernstein, is presented.
Abstract: In this paper we provide a framework for conceptualising transitions from Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes to Higher Education (HE), by bringing together Bourdieu’s and Bernstein’...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore lecturers' concerns or anxieties as to whether they may be interpreted as less legitimate than permanent staff; and the emotional labour involved in the work done to "cover" for the difficulties that a lecturer's contract status causes for the quality of their teaching content and organisation.
Abstract: This paper is based on findings from an email interview study with 20 academics (17 women, 3 men) in the UK on short-term, insecure or ‘casualised’ contracts. The paper focuses on their perceptions of the effect their contract status has on the lecturer/student relationship: particularly in regard to student perceptions of their legitimacy and status. Using a poststructuralist theoretical lens, we explore lecturers’ concerns or anxieties as to whether they may be interpreted as less legitimate than permanent staff; and the emotional labour involved in the work done to ‘cover’ for the difficulties that a lecturer’s contract status causes for the quality of their teaching content and organisation. We also explore the considerations of some participants to voluntarily ‘disclose’ their status to students and the possibilities of such acts as a form of resistance to dominant discourses of the legitimate academic.
TL;DR: For many Indigenous parents in Canada legacies of residential schooling have been re-traumatized by residential schooling, and positive and trusting family/school relationships support academic achievement as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Education research demonstrates that positive and trusting family/school relationships support academic achievement but for many Indigenous parents in Canada legacies of residential schooling have ...
TL;DR: This paper explored the complexity of school resistance by Chinese rural migrant children, which may contribute to their educational failure, as well as the school conditions informin the school resistance, and found that their resistance may also contribute to the educational failure.
Abstract: This study explores the complexity of school resistance by Chinese rural migrant children (RMC), which may contribute to their educational failure, as well as the school conditions informin...
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a neoliberal discourse of teaching excellence has the effect of working professionals working in a "neoliberal" higher education setting, and that teaching practice is negatively affected by this discourse.
Abstract: This article reflects upon the neoliberalisation of higher education and its effects on teaching practice. It is argued that a neoliberal discourse of teaching excellence has the effect of working ...
TL;DR: In this paper, performance-based research funding aims to support the most deserving academic institutions and researchers, however, overcoming entrenched assumptions about quality is a persiste e... and the challenge of finding the most worthy academic institution and researchers is a persistent challenge.
Abstract: Globally, performance-based research funding aims to support the most deserving academic institutions and researchers. However, overcoming entrenched assumptions about quality is a persiste...
TL;DR: In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided as discussed by the authors, but private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial supp...
Abstract: In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial supp...
TL;DR: Previous studies of citizenship preparation in upper secondary school, including studies on vocational programs, have primarily focused on general subjects as discussed by the authors, and have focused on the potential and actual roles of vocation.
Abstract: Previous studies of citizenship preparation in upper secondary school, including studies on vocational programmes, have primarily focused on general subjects. Potential and actual roles of vocation ...
TL;DR: The authors consider whether societal changes are making space for some working-class boys to go against the grain and foster positive reader identities, drawing on interviews with 30 Australian boys. But they do not consider the role of gender stereotypes.
Abstract: This paper considers whether societal changes are making space for some working-class boys to go against the grain and foster positive reader identities. Drawing on interviews with 30 Australian bo...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set out discursive issues surrounding bullying and harassment against teachers and pointed out that the problematic phenomenon of teachers being bullied by students does not have the discursive policy for dealing with it.
Abstract: This article sets out discursive issues surrounding bullying and harassment against teachers. This problematic phenomenon of teachers being bullied by students does not have the discursive policy f...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe their personal reflections on a career in sociology of education, entwined with a history of the field of education and the history of social sciences.
Abstract: This paper attempts to work on a number of different levels. Firstly, it comprises my personal reflections on a career in sociology of education. These reflections are entwined with a history of th...
TL;DR: In this paper, the core theme of this article is the emerging tension between the egalitarian discourse that increases the general aspiration of people to become more educated and actual admission constraints, and the difficulty of admission constraints.
Abstract: The core theme of this article is the emerging tension between the egalitarian discourse that increases the general aspiration of people to become more educated and actual admission constraints. A ...