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Overview

Scott Davies is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and focuses primarily on social sciences with a notable emphasis on education. Their body of work spans several interconnected subfields including education, sociology and political science, demography, political science and international relations, and developmental and educational psychology.

The research topics covered by their publications include education systems and policy, global educational reforms and inequalities, school choice and performance, parental involvement in education, higher education governance and development, Canadian identity and history, as well as youth substance use and school attendance.

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent papers in various scholarly venues. Notable publications include:

  • "COVID-19 school closures and educational achievement gaps in Canada: Lessons from Ontario summer learning research" (2021) in Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
  • "Can Digital Technology Bridge the Classroom Engagement Gap? Findings from a Qualitative Study of K-8 Classrooms in 10 Ontario School Boards" (2021) in Social Sciences
  • "Cultural capital-field connections for three populations of Chinese students: a theoretical framework for empirical research" (2024) in Chinese Sociological Review
  • "The evolving prism: the role of nationalism in Canadian higher education" (2021) in European Journal of Higher Education
  • "Does the early development instrument predict academic achievement in Ontario French schools?" (2021) in Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement

Their frequent coauthors include Janice Aurini, Perry Schlanger, Angran Li, Jessica Rizk, and Magdalena Janus.

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
  • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
  • Chinese Sociological Review
  • Social Sciences
  • European Journal of Higher Education

Overall, Scott Davies' research integrates interdisciplinary perspectives with a strong concentration on educational issues, social inequalities, governance in higher education, and cultural dynamics within Canadian and international contexts.

Best Publications

  • Fields of Study, College Selectivity, and Student Inequalities in Higher Education

    Scott Davies;Neil Guppy

  • Activism and Conservation Behavior in an Environmental Movement: The Contradictory Effects of Gender

    D. B. Tindall;Scott Davies;Céline Mauboulès

  • Globalization and Educational Reforms in Anglo-American Democracies

    Scott Davies;Neil Guppy

  • School Choice by Default? Understanding the Demand for Private Tutoring in Canada

    Scott Davies

  • Whatever Happened to Yesterday's Rebels? Longitudinal Effects of Youth Delinquency on Education and Employment

    Julian Tanner;Scott Davies;Bill O'Grady

  • The Three Generations of Cultural Capital Research: A Narrative Review:

    Scott Davies;Jessica Rizk

  • The Transformation of Private Tutoring: Education in a Franchise Form

    Janice Aurini;Scott Davies

  • The Schooled Society: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education

    Scott Davies;Neil Guppy

  • The stratification of universities: Structural inequality in Canada and the United States

    Scott Davies;David Zarifa

  • Using the Early Development Instrument to examine cognitive and non-cognitive school readiness and elementary student achievement

    Scott Davies;Magdalena Janus;Eric Duku;Ashley Gaskin

  • Choice without markets: homeschooling in the context of private education

    Janice Aurini;Scott Davies

  • New Public Management and New Professionalism across Nations and Contexts

    Kevin T. Leicht;Tony Walter;Ivan Sainsaulieu;Scott Davies

  • The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S.

    Scott Davies;Floyd M. Hammack

  • The Globalisation of School Choice

    Martin Forsey;Scott Davies;Geoffrey Walford

  • From Moral Duty to Cultural Rights: A Case Study of Political Framing in Education

    Scott Davies

  • Leaps of Faith: Shifting Currents in Critical Sociology of Education.

    Scott Davies

  • The long arm of the law: Effects of labeling on employment

    Scott Davies;Julian Tanner

  • Out of the Shadows: The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education

    Janice Aurini;Scott Davies;Julian Dierkes

  • The Impact of Sector on School Organizations: Institutional and Market Logics

    Scott Davies;Linda Quirke

  • The paradox of progressive education: A frame analysis

    Scott Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Tony Walter
Tony Walter University of Bath

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