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RT @nesekarahasan: Exciting news! 📚 Our manuscript w/ @aysegulcan87 "Between luck and stigma: gendered experiences of precarity in higher….

and "Sociology for Physical Education and Sports Coaching" by @richardlight11 & Steve Georgakis is reviewed by Oki Candra

And finally, two book reviews: Mikael Holmqvist's "Elite business schools: education and consecration in neoliberal society" by Retno Dwiyanti;

In "When class and race collapse: theoretically distinguishing between college students’ intersectional positions and their status groups" David Shuang Song and colleagues pay attention to marginalisation and group-making in a private US university

In "Working with constructs of inclusion for understanding teachers’ literacy practices and their impact on student learning" Sofia Koutsiouri and Antigone Sarakinioti use Bernstein to examine literacy practices in underprivileged schools in Athens

Who deserves help and who is bad? Race and class in ‘doing’ school exclusion by @RomaJT analyses a Pupil Referral Unit and highlights school exclusion as part of a wider global context of inequity and punishment in education:

Next, "Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy", a critical examination of race-focused staff forums in UK universities - perceived as performative but also a welcome respite for racialised staff- by @mannymadriaga and @critical_ben

cisheteronormativity impacts sexuality education in Cape Town:

Time for a round-up of the latest published articles. First, in ‘I haven’t gotten my head around that’: cisheterosexual school-attending youths’ accounts of how cisheteronormativity features in their sexuality education curriculum, @DennisafrancisA examines how persisting 1/2.

📢The journal is growing and we are looking for new editorial board members📢Follow the link for a role description and how to apply:

And the latest article is a comparative study of international schools in São Paulo, Lisbon and Maputo by Anne Schippling and Pedro Abrantes .

Always great to read Pere Ayling @AylingPere, who here focuses on elite education consumption as a strategy of distinction for Nigerian parents .

Then, using Bourdieu, Marie-Pierre Moreau @mpsmoreau, @KateHoskins10 and @EllenKMcHugh look at the role of supervisors as gate-keepers in early academic careers.

Several excellent articles were recently published in ISSE, and several of particular interest to researchers in international education. Minghui Hou @HHou0130 and colleagues examines international school alumni's transitions to HE

New book review: "The sociology of assessment: comparative and policy perspectives" by Patricia Broadfoot; reviewed by @RosidBahar, Sudji Munadi and R. Rosnawati

Good news: ISSE has just been added to the Web of Science ‘Education & Educational Research’ category for 2024!.

The ISSE Paper of the Year 2023: "Outsourced concerted cultivation: international schooling and educational consulting in China" by Ying Ma and Ewan Wright is available here 👏👏👏

Latest book reviews and more articles here: We look forward to your article submissions.

"Westernization or internationalization? Academic expectations and challenges faced by international postgraduates in China" by Bin Zhao & Shuiyun Liu