OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review of 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	50
Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national evaluation of Children’s Centres in England	45
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	34
Using GIS to analyse early years provision in Northern Ireland – adding another year of segregated education?	31
Senior-secondary vocational tracking and socio-economic inequality in student educational performance: evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey	29
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	27
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	25
What do we know about teacher education for difficult topics? A systematic review	24
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	20
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	18
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	17
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	17
Emerging horizons for social justice in assessment: can assessment move beyond competence, competition, content and control?	16
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette	15
Open-plan schooling and everyday utopias: Australia and Denmark in the 1970s	15
Competing interests of stakeholders in a policy-driven test: a sociological analysis	15
Participant reflexivity and the complexity inherent to navigating ethical quandaries	14
Failing at the basics: disabled university students’ views on enhancing classroom inclusion	12
The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark	12
Untangling the sociomateriality of the classroom: biographies of school spaces (c. 1960–2014)	12
Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity	11
Knowledgeable but not specialist: Virtual School Heads’ experiences of supporting autistic children in care	11
The spaces and places of schooling: historical perspectives	11
The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body	10
The marginalised few: reflections from the lived experiences of forced displaced academics in Turkish academia	10

Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse in Wales	10
Trends in educational stratification during China’s Great Transformation	10
Raymond Williams and the new industrial trainers: a critique and a proposal	10
Education, truth and subjectivity: Revisiting Kierkegaard	10
Colour-evasive racial ideologies underpinning the hidden curriculum of a majority-minority occupational therapy school in London, England: an analysis of minoritised undergraduate students’ experience	9
The emerging intersection: the role of architecture in promoting inclusive education	9
‘Start-up’ capital: cultivating the elite child in an elite international kindergarten in Shenzhen, China	9
Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	8
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections	8
Agenda-setting for education reform: the case of the Vision Statement for the Future of Scottish Education	8
Social sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care through play, responsiveness and inclusion: teachers’ responses to children’s non-verbal initiatives in play	8
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	8
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention	7
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter	7
Redefining the meaning of teaching in the era of (post-) performativity: the voices of Singaporean teachers	6
Tensions between decolonisation and social justice in education: seeking pathways beyond incommensurability	6
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	6
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	6
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	6
Interconnected learning between university and the workplace: a socio-cultural perspective of graduate employability in the UK	6
Shifting power relations in innovative learning environments: implications for initial teacher education and practicum	6
‘Back to the future’: Thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Alec Clegg (1909–1986) on the promise of education	5
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	5
School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence	5
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	5
Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: the case of Scotland	5
The pedagogy of latrines. A kaleidoscopic look at the history of school bathrooms in Argentina, 1880-1930	5
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	5
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following Covid-19 examination cancellations	5
Whose children are they? Using Kymlicka on multiculturalism to evaluate rights and freedom in Christian home education	5
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	5
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	5
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review	4
Youth education decisions and occupational misalignment and mismatch: evidence from a representative cohort study of Australian youth	4
Anxiety and performance during tests: the roles of coping and updating	4
Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children	4
Financial sustainability in a marketised and partially autonomous environment: the case of small new public universities in England	4
Effects of a positive education programme on secondary school students’ mental health and wellbeing; challenges of the school context	4
‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’ : the ‘low value’ arts degree and the neoliberal university	4
Redefining student voice: applying the lens of critical pragmatism	4
Indigenous heritage as an educational resource in primary education	4
Virtue as a response to pandemic and crisis	4
Mary and David Medd’s work: domesticity in postwar British school design (1949–72)	3
The pronunciation of students’ names in higher education: identity work by academics and professional services staff	3
On silent feet: the library and the child	3
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	3
Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics	3
Gender differences in students’ perceptions of teacher and peer feedback in mathematics: lessons from Denmark	3
Conceptualising small rural school-community relationships within a divided society: people, meanings, practices and spaces	3
When the ‘mindfulness wars’ enter the classroom: making sense of the critique of school-based mindfulness	3

Adolescents in transition: experiences and appraisals of immigrant students in school education	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing	3
Teaching and learning: what matters for intervention	2
Early school leaving, number of siblings and birth order in Spain	2
The social practice approach: a pathway to improved academic achievement in adult basic literacy	2
Excluded lives: a ‘home-international’ comparison of school exclusion	2
A capability approach to understanding academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs in Ireland	2
Examining the factors influencing mathematics academic achievement in mainland China: A multilevel analysis	2
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	2
Bridging the gap: educational aspirations and expectations in Latin American intermediate territories	2
School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents’ post-school destinations	2
Who are the children we teach? Considering identities, place and time-space in education	2
Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education	2
The role of teachers’ implicit social goals in pedagogical reforms in Tanzania	2
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	2
‘We want to, but we can’t’: pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach primary physical education	2
The Sisyphean continuum: countering the racial-colonial challenges of Indigenous education	2
Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: matters of relationality and context	2
Breaks in the chain: using theories of social practice to interrogate professionals’ experiences of administering Pupil Premium Plus to support looked after children	2
Insights on student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching: Jewish studies teachers, pedagogy and community	2
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	2
Inequalities in late adolescents’ educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy	2
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	2
Pedagogical practice and students’ perceptions of fully online flipped instruction during COVID-19	2
The costs of school exclusion: a case study analysis of England, Wales and Scotland	2
Analysing English year-one mathematics textbooks through the lens of foundational number sense: A cautionary tale for importers of overseas-authored materials	1
The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation?	1
From subject choice to career path: Female STEM graduates in the UK labour market	1
Systematic review synthesising the effects of study abroad experience on the development of language fluency	1
Typologising the corporatisation of parent roles in the ‘modern’ governance of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in subordinated communities	1
Effects of a professional development programme on teachers’ classroom practices in Colombia	1
International development higher education: Looking from the past, looking to the future	1
Test anxiety: Is it associated with performance in high-stakes examinations?	1
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools	1
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation	1
Inside mathematics learning inequality: an analysis of Young Lives Survey data, India	1
Contemporary education and guiding pedagogical principals: the prospects for an embodied and intersubjective interpretation of phenomenology	1
Improving but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy	1
What does success mean to you? Negotiating individual definitions of educational success within an examination-dominated regime of truth	1
How an educational experiment creates motivating conditions for children to role-play a child-initiated PlayWorld	1
Student voice and teacher voice in educational research: a systematic review of 25 years of literature from 1995–2020	1
What is global higher education?	1
Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea oftianxia	1
‘Alternative’ education provision: a mapping and critique	1
What makes care-experienced young people ‘survivors’ in education: evidence from China	1
Personalising assessment in the service of equity	1
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	1
Perceptions and pedagogical considerations in professional development training for integration of an early literacy program in Kenya	1
Roland Barthes and the death of the teacher	1
Socio-economic inequality and education	1
Students’ agency for critical interculturalism: from intercultural responsibility to informal leadership	1
University students’ interpretations of study-related peer sociality	1
Psychosocial disorder or rational action? Contrasting professional and pupil narratives of school exclusion	1
Assessment literacy and critical consciousness	1
Educator views regarding young people’s aspirations in peripheral coastal communities in England: a Q study	1
‘Shi men’ as key doctoral practice: understanding international doctoral students’ learning communities and research culture in China	1
Statistically guided grading judgements: contextualisation or contamination?	1
Foreword to the fiftieth volume	1
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	1
The role of education in a democracy: continuing the debate	1
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru: a biosocial pedagogy	1