Becky Francis

Research.com Recognitions

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Best Publications

• Boys, Girls and Achievement: Addressing the Classroom Issues

  Becky Francis

  854
  Citations

• Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary Key Debates

  Becky Francis;Christine Skelton

  643
  Citations

• Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement: Race, Gender, Class and 'Success'

  Louise Archer;Becky Francis

  528
  Citations

• Lads, Lasses and (New) Labour: 14-16-year-old students' responses to the 'laddish behaviour and boys' underachievement' debate

  Becky Francis

  310
  Citations

• The Gendered Subject: Students' subject preferences and discussions of gender and subject ability

  Becky Francis

  270
  Citations

• Heroes or zeroes? The discursive positioning of ‘underachieving boys’ in English neo‐liberal education policy

  Becky Francis

  257
  Citations

• Men Teachers and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity in the Classroom

  Becky Francis;Christine Skelton

  254
  Citations

• British—Chinese pupils' and parents' constructions of the value of education

  Becky Francis;Louise Archer

  244
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• Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England: a discourse analytic account

  Becky Francis;Louise Archer;Jeremy Hodgen;David Pepper

  229
  Citations

• Re/theorising gender: female masculinity and male femininity in the classroom?

  Becky Francis

  229
  Citations

• Reassessing gender and achievement

  Becky Francis;Christine Skelton

  223
  Citations

• Is the Future Really Female? The Impact and Implications of Gender for 14-16 Year Olds' Career Choices

  Becky Francis

  218
  Citations

• Language as capital, or language as identity? Chinese complementary school pupils' perspectives on the purposes and benefits of complementary schools

  Becky Francis;Louise Archer;Ada Mau

  212
  Citations

• Challenging Classes? Exploring the Role of Social Class within the Identities and Achievement of British Chinese Pupils

  Louise Archer;Becky Francis

  211
  Citations

• Power Plays: Primary School Children’s Constructions of Gender, Power and Adult Work

  Becky Francis

  208
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• The simultaneous production of educational achievement and popularity: how do some pupils accomplish it?

  Becky Francis;Christine Skelton;Barbara Read

  189
  Citations

• Modernist Reductionism or Post-structuralist Relativism: Can we move on? An Evaluation of the Arguments in Relation to Feminist Educational Research

  Becky Francis

  180
  Citations

• The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education

  Christine Skelton;Becky Francis;Lisa Smulyan

  176
  Citations

• Investigating Gender: Contemporary Perspectives in Education

  Becky Francis;Christine Skelton

  168
  Citations

• Towards social justice in education: contradictions and dilemmas

  Becky Francis;Martin Mills;Ruth Lupton

  147
  Citations

• Does the gender of the teacher really matter? Seven‐ to eight‐year‐olds’ accounts of their interactions with their teachers

  Bruce Carrington;Becky Francis;Merryn Hutchings;Christine Skelton

  140
  Citations