OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review of 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	54
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	46
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	36
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	30
What do we know about teacher education for difficult topics? A systematic review	28
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	28
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	25
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	20
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	20
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	19
Emerging horizons for social justice in assessment: can assessment move beyond competence, competition, content and control?	17
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	17
Competing interests of stakeholders in a policy-driven test: a sociological analysis	16
Open-plan schooling and everyday utopias: Australia and Denmark in the 1970s	16
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette	15
The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark	14
Untangling the sociomateriality of the classroom: biographies of school spaces (c. 1960–2014)	14
Participant reflexivity and the complexity inherent to navigating ethical quandaries	14
Failing at the basics: disabled university students’ views on enhancing classroom inclusion	13
The spaces and places of schooling: historical perspectives	12
The marginalised few: reflections from the lived experiences of forced displaced academics in Turkish academia	12
Knowledgeable but not specialist: Virtual School Heads’ experiences of supporting autistic children in care	11
Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity	11
Raymond Williams and the new industrial trainers: a critique and a proposal	10

Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	10
Trends in educational stratification during China’s Great Transformation	10
Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse in Wales	10
Education, truth and subjectivity: Revisiting Kierkegaard	10
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
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
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	8
The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body	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
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
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	6
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	6
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
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	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
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	6
‘Back to the future’: Thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Alec Clegg (1909–1986) on the promise of education	5
Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: the case of Scotland	5
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	5
Whose children are they? Using Kymlicka on multiculturalism to evaluate rights and freedom in Christian home education	5
School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence	5
Effects of a positive education programme on secondary school students’ mental health and wellbeing; challenges of the school context	5
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	5
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	5
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following Covid-19 examination cancellations	5
Anxiety and performance during tests: the roles of coping and updating	5
The pedagogy of latrines. A kaleidoscopic look at the history of school bathrooms in Argentina, 1880-1930	5
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	5
Virtue as a response to pandemic and crisis	4
Youth education decisions and occupational misalignment and mismatch: evidence from a representative cohort study of Australian youth	4
Indigenous heritage as an educational resource in primary education	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
‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’ : the ‘low value’ arts degree and the neoliberal university	4
Adolescents in transition: experiences and appraisals of immigrant students in school education	4
Redefining student voice: applying the lens of critical pragmatism	4
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review	3
Mary and David Medd’s work: domesticity in postwar British school design (1949–72)	3
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	3
On silent feet: the library and the child	3
The pronunciation of students’ names in higher education: identity work by academics and professional services staff	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Examining the factors influencing mathematics academic achievement in mainland China: A multilevel analysis	3
Conceptualising small rural school-community relationships within a divided society: people, meanings, practices and spaces	3

Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics	3
A capability approach to understanding academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs in Ireland	3
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	3
Bridging the gap: educational aspirations and expectations in Latin American intermediate territories	2
Excluded lives: a ‘home-international’ comparison of school exclusion	2
‘We want to, but we can’t’: pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach primary physical education	2
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing	2
The role of teachers’ implicit social goals in pedagogical reforms in Tanzania	2
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	2
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	2
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation	2
Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: matters of relationality and context	2
Inequalities in late adolescents’ educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic	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
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	2
Teaching and learning: what matters for intervention	2
Pedagogical practice and students’ perceptions of fully online flipped instruction during COVID-19	2
Who are the children we teach? Considering identities, place and time-space in education	2
The social practice approach: a pathway to improved academic achievement in adult basic literacy	2
Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education	2
Contemporary education and guiding pedagogical principals: the prospects for an embodied and intersubjective interpretation of phenomenology	2
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	2
The costs of school exclusion: a case study analysis of England, Wales and Scotland	2
Early school leaving, number of siblings and birth order in Spain	2
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy	2
Insights on student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching: Jewish studies teachers, pedagogy and community	2
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	2
The Sisyphean continuum: countering the racial-colonial challenges of Indigenous education	2
School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents’ post-school destinations	2