Jan Nespor
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
71
Citations
3,911
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
44
Publishing since 1983
Jan Nespor studies education policy and the changing nature of teachers' work, with attention to how technology, virtual schooling, and market-driven reforms reshape teaching practice and school accountability. His work also examines how educational institutions and policy actors use qualitative research methods, and increasingly explores how environmental factors like extreme heat affect teachers. This research is qualitative and sociological in orientation, often drawing on interviews and case studies of schools and policy processes.
Publication output has been low and irregular over the last decade, averaging roughly one publication per year with several gaps, including no recorded output in multiple recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- “It feels like someone is choking me, and I am sweating buckets:” teachers’ experiences of climate change and extreme heat in Punjab, Pakistan
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · 2026
- Mundane technologies of educational policy consultancy: Presentations and interpretive control
Education Policy Analysis Archives · 2023
- Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling
Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education · 2022
- Time Regimes and Transformations of Teachers' Work
Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting · 2020
- Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today. Ilana Gershon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Anthropology of Work Review · 2019
- Cyber schooling and the accumulation of school time
Pedagogy Culture and Society · 2018
- Occupational Erasure and the Work of Invisible Teaching
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018) · 2018
- Markets and Violence: Qualitative Research and the Neoliberal Future
Qualitative Inquiry · 2017
- Elite Business Schools and the Uses of Visibility
Palgrave studies in global higher education · 2017
- Future imaginaries of urban school reform
Education Policy Analysis Archives · 2016
- Future imaginaries of urban school reform
Education Policy Analysis Archives · 2016
- “Failure” Irrelevant: Virtual Schools and Accountability-Immunity
Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 2016
- Education Policy Analysis Archives×3
- Pedagogy Culture and Society×1
- Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education×1
- Qualitative Inquiry×1
- Palgrave studies in global higher education×1
- Alexander Cuenca
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Jesse Goodman
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Kathryn M. Obenchain
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Brad M. Maguth
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Chrystal S. Johnson
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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