OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Education Policy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	39
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	31
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	29
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	24
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	21
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	20
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	20
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	20
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	19
A political sociology of education policy	18
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	16
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	15
School reform in an era of standardization. Authentic accountabilities	14
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	14
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	14
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016	13
Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	12
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	11
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	11
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	11
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	10
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	10
Ability, inequality and post-pandemic schools. Rethinking contemporary myths of meritocracy	9

Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	8
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	8
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	8
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	8
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	8
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	7
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	7
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	7
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	7
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	7
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	6
Effects of spatial competition on public educational efficiency: an analysis for the Chilean Metropolitan Region	6
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	5
STEM, social mobility and equality: avenues for widening access	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	5
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	5
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	4
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	4
Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and imagining pluralism Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and i	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
En/countering the doings of standards in early childhood education: drawing on Actor-Network Theory to trace enactments of and resistances to emerging sociomaterial policy assemblages	4
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	3
The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms , edited	3
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	3
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	3
Little-p policy production: exploring policy making in schools through the analytic of policy enactment	3
The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers	3
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	3
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	3
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	2
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	2
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	2
Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	2
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	2

Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	2
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	2
The rise of law in education - exploring three drivers of juridification in the context of a changing welfare state	2
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: policy enactment and partnership building during times of crisis	2
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	2
The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught between work and family in academia	2
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	2
‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy	1
Fragile legitimacy of multi-academy trusts in England: the case for a clear set of indicators to engender trust in the academised school system	1
Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’	1
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	1
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	1
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	1
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	1
Early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	1
Anticipating disruption: artificial intelligence and minor experiments in education policy	1
Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	1
Perverse impacts of competitive funding: public school principals as revenue generators in the grant economy	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
Remediating deficits? Problem representations in Norwegian policies for newly qualified teachers	1
Anatomy of policy failure? Implications of the Australian Disability Royal Commission Inquiry for inclusive education	1
Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy	1
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	1
Teaching in England Post-1988	1
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	1
Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem	1
Uncommon or too common? The discursive diffusion and transformation of charter edupreneurial policy ideas	1
Review of ‘The culture trap, by Dr. Derron Wallace’ Review of ‘The culture trap, by Dr. Derron Wallace’ , by Veronica Poku, United States of America, Oxford University P	1
Private English tutors’ agency amid China’s ‘double reduction’ policy: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
The making of the standard pupil through national final assessment criteria?	1
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	1
‘What works’ depends: teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context in international large-scale surveys	1