OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	38
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	30
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	28
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	27
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	27
Shadow education in the Middle East Shadow education in the Middle East , by Mark Bray and Anas Hajar, London, Routledge, 2022, 122 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 97810323298	22
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	22
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	21
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	21
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	20
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	20
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	17
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	17
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	17
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	17
Correction	16
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	16
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	15
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	15
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	15
Comparative education and its discontents	15
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	14
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	14
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	14
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	14

Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	14
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	13
Editorial	13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	13
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	11
Comparative education as a political project	11
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	10
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	10
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	10
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	10
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	9
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	8
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education	8
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	7
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	7
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	7
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Education and social justice in Japan	6
Comparative education: and now?	6
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	6
Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China	5
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	5
Comparative education and international relations	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Correction	5
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	4
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	4
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	4

Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	4
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	3
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	3
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	3
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	3
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
Normalising university graduate unemployment in China: governing through employability and moral exemplarism	2
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	2
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	2
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education: Conducting empirically based research	2
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	2
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	2
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China	2