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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	41
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	37
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	36
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	31
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	25
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	25
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	23
A political sociology of education policy	19
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	17
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	16
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	15
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	15
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	15
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	15
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	13
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	13
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	13
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	12
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	12
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	11
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	11
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	11
Analyzing school leadership policy reform in Lebanon	10
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	10

Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	8
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher education	7
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	7
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	7
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	7
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	7
Neurofarming HE: how to think, feel and act in the Ne(ur)oliberal university	7
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Street-Level Bureaucracy in health promoting schools: a cross case analysis through Bourdieu’s capital theory	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Information and attitudes about a counter-cultural educational policy: a mixed study on school choice in Chile	6
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO	6
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	6
Equity audits and school resource allocation: Applying critical resource theory to increase equal opportunity in schools	5
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	5
Pursuing social justice through education policy programmes: capturing subtleties with a modified welfare regime analysis	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	5
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice	5
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and imagining pluralism Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and i	4
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	4
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	4
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	4
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement	4
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations	4
Affective philanthropy and the im/possibility of governance: the LEGO Foundation’s involvement in public education	4
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	4
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	3
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	3
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	3
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3
Policy as cultural artefact: value attributed to student voice in the field of Victorian policy production	3
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	3
Revisiting Hargreaves 30 years on: justice research, symbolic control and the pedagogic politics of recognition	3
The rise of law in education - exploring three drivers of juridification in the context of a changing welfare state	3
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	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
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	3
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	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
‘Clusters’ and ‘place-based approaches’: on the problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in senior secondary schooling	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
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	3
A decade of the Superintendence of education in Chile: emerging juridification influence on principals’ professionalism	3
Little-p policy production: exploring policy making in schools through the analytic of policy enactment	3
‘Happy land’ versus ‘across the river’: spatial imaginaries and school choice in a segregated city	2
Problems and possibilities of neoliberal education reforms: accountability, high-stakes testing, and inequality	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
Problematising the educational leader policy in Australian early childhood education and care	2
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch: school autonomy as scalar politics	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
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
Forces shaping educational policy: institutionalizing Forest School as a case of grassroots-to-state dynamics	2
The shifting meanings of wellbeing in Australian schooling policy	2
The construction of neoliberal subjects through China’s English language education policies	2
The affective milieu of school market competition: using affect and governmentality to study market competition	2
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Education policy for the common (good): reshaping education, societies, and citizenship	2
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Perverse impacts of competitive funding: public school principals as revenue generators in the grant economy	1
Uncommon or too common? The discursive diffusion and transformation of charter edupreneurial policy ideas	1
Teacher competence discourses: exposing, controlling, and punishing the ‘bad’ teacher	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	1
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	1
Teaching in England Post-1988	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
Precariously employed early career teachers and induction policies: a critical policy study	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	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
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	1
Unimaginable policies: from savage market orthodoxy to free HE in Chile	1
Remediating deficits? Problem representations in Norwegian policies for newly qualified teachers	1
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	1
Beyond neoliberal policy ideologies: tracing characteristics of social democratic ideologies in contemporary Danish 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
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	1
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	1
Private English tutors’ agency amid China’s ‘double reduction’ policy: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Anatomy of policy failure? Implications of the Australian Disability Royal Commission Inquiry for inclusive education	1
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	1
The making of the standard pupil through national final assessment criteria?	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	1
Physically active learning in education discourses: problem representations and subject positions in Norwegian policies	1