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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	42
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care	33
Empire, civil society, and the beginnings of colonial education in India	29
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA: Challenging OECD’s Educational Order	20
Migration for school choice: urbanisation and rural social stratification in China	19
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	19
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	18
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	16
The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation	16
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	14
Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030 Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the fac	14
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	14
Comparison and explanation: a long saga	14
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	13
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	13
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	13
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	12
Professor John Keith Philip Watson (1939–2024)	12
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	12
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	12
Where you place the stakes matter: examining the relationship between test-based accountability and shadow education	12
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	11
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	11
‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices	11
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	11

Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	10
Culture and education: looking back to culture through education	10
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	10
Romancing the public school: attachment, publicness and privatisation	10
The promises and expectations of ILSAs regarding policymaking: lessons from Latin America	10
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	9
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	9
‘Femininity’ and the history of women’s education: shifting the frame	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	8
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	8
Happiness education: holistic learning for sustainable well-being	8
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	7
Empowerment from what? Teacher ‘citizenship talk’ practices for migrant children in China	7
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	7
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education: new approaches for challenging times	7
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	7
The global education policy field: theorization and problematization	7
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	7
Time-worn pebbles or unpolished gemstones? (Un)usable pasts and possible futures of comparative education	6
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: findings and policy implications from an international comparative study in early childhood education	6
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	6
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	6
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan: competencies, subjects, and the ambiguities of PISA	6
Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resource: self-reflective inquiry into the onto-epistemic foundations of global education policy research	5
The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu	5
Comparative Education: A Field in Discussion Comparative Education: A Field in Discussion , by David A. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2022, 266 pp., $72 (paperback), $180 (hard	5
Taiwanese multiculturalism and the political appropriation of new immigrants’ languages	5
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	5
Understanding campus-based intercultural social capital for minority university students in Hong Kong	5
Unthinking critique: when will ‘critical’ global education policy scholarship emerge from Marx’s shadow?	5
Hybrid knowledge systems: an alternative pathway to decolonising higher education in Africa	5
The metrification of teaching: student evaluation of teaching in the United States, Germany and Colombia	4
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	4
Internal orientalism on Taiwan: the ROC's Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and its portrayal of Tibetan Buddhism	4
Correction	4
Comparative education and intercultural education: relations and revisions	4
The same and the change: a topology of a Sino–French joint programme	4
Confucianism in multicultural China: ‘official knowledge’ vs marginalised views	4
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	4
Education and intercultural identity: a dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera	4
Maintaining the legitimacy of school choice in the segregated schooling environment of Amsterdam	4
Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty	4
Unsettling the university: confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education	4
In response to Acker: black and African feminist theories on gender and education	4
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	3
Babygirl, You've Got This! Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System	3
Overeducation and overskilling in Latin America: evidence from PIAAC	3

An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	3
School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions	3
International handbook on education development in Asia Pacific	3
Scientification or political legitimation? Tracing the concepts of evidence and context in Nordic school reforms	3
Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education	2
Relationality and learning in Oceania: Contextualizing education for development	2
Educational reconstruction and the promotion of local identity: Okinawa in the American occupation 1945–1972	2
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	2
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	2
What happened to the Soviet university?	2
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	2
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	2
Introducing the special issue on ‘Comparative studies in early childhood education: past, present and future’	2
Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law	2
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?	2
Institutionalist perspectives on the dynamics of post-conflict education reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	2
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	2
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	1
Meddling with school choice: comparing education policy interventions and their impact on school segregation	1
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	1
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	1
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda	1
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	1
Education and social justice in Japan	1
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	1
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously	1
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	1
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	1
Contradictory rationales behind national education export: tracing the policy formation processes of EDU-Port Japan	1
Comparative education: and now?	1
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	1
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	1
‘Your rent is due, higher education’: beyond apologies and towards reparations	1
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	1
The OECD’s ‘Well-being 2030’ agenda: how PISA's affective turn gets lost in translation	1
Correction	1