OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Education Policy 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Not (yet) ready for the mainstream’ – newly arrived migrant students in a separate educational program	25
From democracy to managerialism: foundation universities as the embodiment of Finnish university policies	25
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	23
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	22
Affective ideology and education policy: implications for critical policy research and practice	20
The OECD Learning Compass 2030 and the future of disciplinary learning: a Bernsteinian critique	18
The ‘web of conditions’ governing England’s climate change education policy landscape	17
From performative to professional accountability: re-imagining ‘the field of judgment’ through teacher professional development	16
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	16
‘Education without limits’: The digital resettlement of post-secondary education and training in Singapore in the COVID-19 era	15
Topological genealogy: a methodology to research transnational digital governance in/through/as change	13
Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	13
Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy	13
The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance	13
Theorising social and emotional wellbeing in schools: a framework for analysing educational policy	13
1996: the OECD policy-making assemblage	13
Winning the war by losing the battle? The marketization of the expanding preschool sector in Sweden	13
‘We have to be really careful’: policy intermediaries preventing violent extremism in an era of risk	12
What moves us also moves policy: the role of affect in mobilizing education policy on sustainability	12
Data infrastructures as sites of preclusion and omission: the representation of students and schooling	11
Exiting Detroit for school: inequitable choice sets and school quality	11
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument	10
Experiences of arbitrary management among Finnish academics in an era of academic capitalism	10
Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China	9
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	9

Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	9
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	9
Narratives of academic staff involvement in Athena SWAN and race equality charter marks in UK higher education institutions	9
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	9
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	9
Democracy and teachers: the im/possibilities for pluralisation in evidence-based practice	8
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	8
Practitioner advocates in Japan: bringing in knowledge of practice for policy translation	8
Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem	8
Actantial construction of career guidance in parliament of Finland’s education policy debates 1967–2020	8
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	8
Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’	7
The nuts and bolts of quality assurance in Ethiopian higher education: practices, pitfalls, and prospects	7
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	7
‘The very best generation of teachers ever’: teachers in post-2010 ministerial speeches	7
Private actors in policy processes. entrepreneurs, edupreneurs and policyneurs	6
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	6
Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students	6
Discourse, legitimacy, and bottom-to-bottom change: haredi activism to promote secular education in New-York Hasidic Schools	6
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	5
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	5
Making space for ‘learning’: appropriating new learning agendas in early childhood education and care	5
A sinister side of student voice: surveillance, suspicion, and stigma	5
‘Academics without publications are just like imperial concubines without sons’: the ‘new times’ of Chinese higher education	5
The Model Of Becoming Aware: disabled subjectivities, policy enactment and new exclusions in higher education	5
More than meets the eye: uncovering the evolution of the OECD’s institutional priorities in education	4
Coercion and consent for the U.S. education market: community engagement policy under racialized fiscal surveillance	4
A methodological approach to the analysis of PISA microblogs: social media during the release of the PISA 2015 results	4
The Global Education Industry in a Microcosm: Public- Private Networks in German Public Schooling	4
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	4
Theorizing ‘affective infrastructure’ in education policy: articulating new political imaginaries for a more equitable future	4
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	4
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	4
Performativity, managerial professionalism and the purpose of professional development: a South African case study	4
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	4
How teachers see policy: school context, teacher inquiry, and policy visibility	4
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	4
‘What works’ depends: teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context in international large-scale surveys	3
Widening participation policy as practice: category work and local policy appropriations at student support units	3
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	3
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	3
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	2
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	2
A leap of faith: overcoming doubt to do good when policy is absurd	2
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	2
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	2
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016	2
Lost in translation: PISA experts, brokers, and marionettes	2
The Emergence and Policy (mis)Alignment of Teach For Taiwan	2
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	2

Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	2
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	2
From irreversible openness to protectionism: geopolitics and international research cooperation in the European Union	2
Education department policy constructions within highly political contexts: a critical policy study of multiculturalism	2
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	2
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	2
Inequitable teacher turnover and performance-based appraisal: a global trend?	2
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	2
Education policy and ‘free speech’ on race and faith equality at school	2
Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy	2
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	2
Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice	2
Privatising public schools via product pipelines: Teach For Australia, policy networks and profit	2
Comparisons, numbers and nations: exploring national policy responses to international data via a postfoundational imagining of the policymaker	2
Deliberation and decisionism in educational policymaking: How Nepali educational policymakers negotiate with foreign aid agencies	2
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	2
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	1
The Hurricane network: District takeover and neoliberal reconstruction in the emerging ‘global city’	1
Higher education actors’ responses to the Ukraine-Russia conflict: an analysis of geopolitical spatial imaginaries	1
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	1
Exclusionary tactics in English secondary education: an analysis of fair access protocols	1
Anticipating disruption: artificial intelligence and minor experiments in education policy	1
The enactment of policy inside an academic profession: Following impact into philosophy	1
Beyond epistemic exodus in educational studies: a response to Jordi Collet-Sabé and Stephen J. Ball	1
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	1
On the surface and below: a genealogical look at the waves of evaluation in early childhood education and care	1
Disabling experiences and inclusive school: reframing the debate in Portugal	1
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	1
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	1
Does public consultation affect policy formulation? Negotiation strategies between the administration and citizens	1
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	1
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	1
Public education, neoliberalism, and teachers: New York, Mexico City, Toronto	1
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	1
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	1