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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	37
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	34
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	31
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	27
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	22
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	21
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	19
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	18
A political sociology of education policy	15
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	15
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	14
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	13
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	13
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	13
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	13
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	12
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	12
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	12
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	11
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	10
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	10
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	10
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	10
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	10
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	9

Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	9
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	9
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	9
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	8
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	7
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	7
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	6
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	6
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Equity audits and school resource allocation: Applying critical resource theory to increase equal opportunity in schools	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	5
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	5
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	4
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4
STEM, social mobility and equality: avenues for widening access	4
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	4
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	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
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement	3
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	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
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	3
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	3
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	3
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	3
A decade of the Superintendence of education in Chile: emerging juridification influence on principals’ professionalism	3
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	3
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	3
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	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
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	3

Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
Problems and possibilities of neoliberal education reforms: accountability, high-stakes testing, and inequality	2
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	2
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	2
The rise of law in education - exploring three drivers of juridification in the context of a changing welfare state	2
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	2
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	2
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	2
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: policy enactment and partnership building during times of crisis	2
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	2
Problematising the educational leader policy in Australian early childhood education and care	2
The affective milieu of school market competition: using affect and governmentality to study market competition	2
The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught between work and family in academia	2
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	2
Teaching in England Post-1988	1
‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy	1
Precariously employed early career teachers and induction policies: a critical policy study	1
Early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	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
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	1
Teacher competence discourses: exposing, controlling, and punishing the ‘bad’ teacher	1
Private English tutors’ agency amid China’s ‘double reduction’ policy: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	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
Physically active learning in education discourses: problem representations and subject positions in Norwegian policies	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	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
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	1
The making of the standard pupil through national final assessment criteria?	1
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
Beyond neoliberal policy ideologies: tracing characteristics of social democratic ideologies in contemporary Danish education policy	1
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	1
Uncommon or too common? The discursive diffusion and transformation of charter edupreneurial policy ideas	1
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	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
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	1
Unimaginable policies: from savage market orthodoxy to free HE in Chile	1