OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Education Policy is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The business of teaching: becoming a teacher in a market of schools	35
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on a Growing Network	29
Neuroliberalism in global education policy: towards a critical framework of neuroliberal governance in education	27
‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy	24
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	23
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	19
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	18
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social	17
Indigenous schooling in the modern world. Education, knowledge and liberation for all citizens	17
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	15
Pacific inclusive education model: addressing dichotomies to ensure positive outcomes	14
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	13
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	13
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	13
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	12
Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem	11
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	11
Ritual and rhetoric of gender policies at the Indian Institutes of Technology	11
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	11
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	9
Anticipating disruption: artificial intelligence and minor experiments in education policy	9
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	9
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	9
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	8
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	8

The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	8
The ‘web of conditions’ governing England’s climate change education policy landscape	8
When gender meets quality assurance in higher education: policy innovation, conditions of possibility, and instrument co-optation	7
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	7
‘Layers of recontextualisation’: exploring the forces shaping global inclusive education policy in Pakistan	7
‘Education without limits’: The digital resettlement of post-secondary education and training in Singapore in the COVID-19 era	7
Disabling experiences and inclusive school: reframing the debate in Portugal	7
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	7
Exclusionary tactics in English secondary education: an analysis of fair access protocols	6
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	6
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	6
The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers	5
Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy	5
Review of Cruel care: a history of children at our borders by Jordana Silverstein	5
A sinister side of student voice: surveillance, suspicion, and stigma	5
A search for common ground: conversations about the toughest questions in K-12 education	5
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	5
Public education, neoliberalism, and teachers: New York, Mexico City, Toronto	5
The Global Education Industry in a Microcosm: Public- Private Networks in German Public Schooling	4
Global-national networks in education policy: Primary education, social enterprises and ‘Teach for Bangladesh’ Global-national networks in education policy: Primary education, social en	4
Falling short of university admission in Brazil: responses from cursinhos populares social movements	4
A political sociology of education policy	4
Loosely Defined: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Discursive Contestation in Post-Brown Education Reform	4
Public sociology: between Utopia and Anti-Utopia	4
The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms , edited	4
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	4
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	4
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	4
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	4
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	4
Guns better than education: political economy of defence, radical education policies, textbooks, and teachers’ outlook in Pakistan	4