Jan Nespor

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Jan Nespor is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Nespor has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Education and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Jan Nespor's work include Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (12 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 papers) and Children's Rights and Participation (5 papers). Jan Nespor is often cited by papers focused on Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (12 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 papers) and Children's Rights and Participation (5 papers). Jan Nespor collaborates with scholars based in United States. Jan Nespor's co-authors include David Hicks, Mari Haneda, James W. Garrison, Anna‐Mária Fall, Rick Voithofer and Margaret Eisenhart and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher and Harvard Educational Review.

In The Last Decade

Jan Nespor

50 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching
    1987 1.3k citations Jan Nespor Journal of Curriculum Studies profile →

Peers

Jan Nespor
Pamela L. Grossman United States
Daniel P. Liston United States
Maurice Galton United Kingdom
Michael G. Fullan Canada
Na’ilah Suad Nasir United States
Gordon Stobart United Kingdom
James Calderhead United Kingdom
Ken Zeichner United States
Sharon Feiman‐Nemser United States
Jos Kessels Netherlands
Pamela L. Grossman United States
Jan Nespor
Citations per year, relative to Jan Nespor Jan Nespor (= 1×) peers Pamela L. Grossman

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Nespor

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Nespor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Nespor

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan Nespor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan Nespor based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jan Nespor. Jan Nespor is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nespor, Jan, et al.. (2022). Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 44(5). 768–781. 1 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2018). Cyber schooling and the accumulation of school time. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 27(3). 325–341. 20 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2016). Future imaginaries of urban school reform. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 24. 2–2. 6 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2014). Discursive geographies. Journal of Language and Politics. 13(3). 490–511. 4 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2014). Knowledge In Motion. 6 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2014). Schooling for the long-term: elite education and temporal accumulation. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. 17(S3). 27–42. 3 indexed citations
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Haneda, Mari & Jan Nespor. (2013). Strangers and Professionals: Positioning Discourse in ESL Teachers’ Work. The Urban Review. 45(3). 251–272. 7 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan, et al.. (2009). Ethics, Problem Framing, and Training in Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. 15(6). 996–1012. 4 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2004). Educational scale-making. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 12(3). 309–326. 53 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2002). Studying the spatialities of schooling. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 10(3). 483–491. 15 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (2000). School field trips and the curriculum of public spaces. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 32(1). 25–43. 39 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1998). The Meanings of Research: Kids as Subjects and Kids as Inquirers. Qualitative Inquiry. 4(3). 369–388. 22 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1997). Tangled Up in School: Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process. 208 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1994). Knowledge In Motion: Space, Time And Curriculum In Undergraduate Physics And Management. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 225 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1994). Knowledge in Motion: Space, Time and Curriculum in Undergraduate Physics and Management. Knowledge, Identity and School Life Series: 2.. 11 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan, et al.. (1991). The Rhetorical Construction of "the Teacher". Harvard Educational Review. 61(4). 417–434. 14 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1990). Curriculum and conversions of capital in the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 22(3). 217–232. 15 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1987). The Construction of School Knowledge: A Case Study. Journal of Education. 169(2). 34–54. 15 indexed citations
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Nespor, Jan. (1987). The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 19(4). 317–328. 1329 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nespor, Jan. (1986). Theoretical Note: On Students' Experiences Across the Grade Levels. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 17(4). 203–216. 2 indexed citations

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