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An Le, Dao Thanh Binh; Hockey, John – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper examines how critical thinking is perceived and transmitted in higher education (HE) classrooms using two Vietnamese undergraduate programmes as case studies. The analysis of semi-structured interviews with teachers, supervisors and institutional leaders from both programmes reveals transmission of critical thinking is impacted upon by…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Ayling, Pere – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle- and upper-class families are seeking to educate their children in the West. The rationale for this kind of social reproduction strategy is the acquisition of 'valuable' cultural and symbolic capitals which can be advantageous in the graduate job market of both their home country and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Advantaged, Academic Aspiration, Study Abroad
Papatsiba, Vassiliki; Cohen, Eliel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Globally, performance-based research funding aims to support the most deserving academic institutions and researchers. However, overcoming entrenched assumptions about quality is a persistent challenge for higher education research policies worldwide; traditionally powerful institutions tend to maintain dominance. Research impact as a performance…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Financial Support, Research, Higher Education
Crozier, Gill; Reay, Diane; Clayton, John – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Through the case-study experiences of 24 White and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) working-class students from three very different universities, we aim to illuminate the often hidden struggle for recognition and respect for classed, 'raced' and gendered ways of being in the university. We discuss how the students perceive their identities…
Descriptors: Working Class, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Bodin, Romuald; Orange, Sophie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory and using Durkheim's concepts of "social fact" and "regulation", this article examines the place held by public universities within the French higher education (HE) system, breaking with the purely bureaucratic vision prevailing in France today. By setting aside some of the main received ideas about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Dropout Rate, School Holding Power
Coate, Kelly; Howson, Camille Kandiko – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
The continued gender imbalance in senior positions in higher education is a problem that persists despite decades of feminist research and publications in the area, as well as interventions in many countries to promote the advancement of women. In this article we view the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the prestige economy, which…
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, College Faculty
Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Morgan, Clara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
While scholars have analyzed global higher education (HE) competition, they have largely failed to address how global spaces of equivalence are tied both to coloniality and to competition. Using the OECD's International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) as a case study and drawing on concepts from coloniality including…
Descriptors: Competition, International Education, Outcomes of Education, Political Influences
Raffe, David; Croxford, Linda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper asks whether the institutional hierarchies defined by "golden triangle", other Russell Group, other pre-1992 and post-1992 universities in England, and by ancient, old and new universities in Scotland, have become weaker since the 1990s. Using indicators constructed from Universities and Colleges Admissions Service data for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Stratification, Institutional Characteristics
Dyke, Martin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The paper makes a connection between transmission modes and constructivism in sociology and education, respectively. There are parallels between Archer's criticism of upward and downward conflation in social theory, and approaches to learning in education. In her 2012 book, Archer seeks to reconceptualise socialisation as relational reflexivity.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Theories, Socialization, Learning Theories
Busher, Hugh; James, Nalita; Piela, Anna; Palmer, Anna-Marie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
Adult learners on Access to Higher Education courses struggled with institutional and social structures to attend their courses, but transformed their identities as learners through them. Although asymmetrical power relationships dominated the intentional learning communities of their courses, their work was facilitated by collaborative cultures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Higher Education, Access to Education
Aldous, David C. R.; Sparkes, Andrew C.; Brown, David H. K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This paper explores the layered transitional experiences of a semi-professional athlete named Jack (a pseudonym) between the fields of professional sport and further and higher education. Our analysis is framed by the quadripartite framework of structuration and focuses on Jack's "in-situ" practices at his college and university in order…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Higher Education, Student Experience, Student Adjustment
Watson, Jo – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
Under-representation in UK higher education of students from less privileged social backgrounds is an enduring problem. While there are examples of productive participation, the pattern of collective trajectories of this group differs sharply from that of traditional entrants. The onus falls largely on students to adapt to established practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
McLean, Monica; Abbas, Andrea; Ashwin, Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper illustrates how critical use of Basil Bernstein's theory illuminates the mechanisms by which university knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy both reproduce and interrupt social inequalities. To this end, empirical examples are selected from the findings of the ESRC-funded project "Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in University First…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Social Theories, Higher Education, Educational Attainment
Clegg, Sue; Flint, Abbi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
This paper argues that the recent debate about plagiarism has taken on aspects of a moral panic, which reflects underlying anxieties about the state of higher education in the United Kingdom. In contrast to the moral absolutism of some commentators, we argue for the significance of posing the phenomenological question of "what is plagiarism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Debate, Plagiarism, Anxiety
Naidoo, Rajani – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper takes as its focus the concept of 'field', which has received relatively less attention than Bourdieu's other concepts such as 'cultural capital' and 'habitus' in the sociology of education. The development of the concept is outlined to present Bourdieu's understanding of higher education as a field consisting of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Sociology, Social Stratification, Case Studies