OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Education Policy 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	43
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	40
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	28
Exploring school absences for children in care in England: systemic pressures, local challenges and admissions resistance	27
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	24
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	23
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	22
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	21
A political sociology of education policy	19
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	17
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	17
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	16
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	15
Calling out policy bullshit: an index for assessing evidence claims in education	14
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	14
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	13
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	13
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	13
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	13
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	12
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	12
Time in education policy transfer. The seven temporalities of global school reform	12
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
Constructing the ‘reflective’ and ‘difficult’ teacher: pragmatic policy discourses in China and France (2000–2023)	11
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	9

Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	9
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	9
Visible yet fuzzy: new adventures in (post)panopticism under England’s 2019 Education Inspection Framework	9
Analyzing school leadership policy reform in Lebanon	9
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	8
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	8
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	8
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	8
The invisible re-segregation of immigrant students at Chilean high schools	8
Neurofarming HE: how to think, feel and act in the Ne(ur)oliberal university	7
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	7
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher education	7
Street-Level Bureaucracy in health promoting schools: a cross case analysis through Bourdieu’s capital theory	7
Information and attitudes about a counter-cultural educational policy: a mixed study on school choice in Chile	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
‘Piecing things together as best we can’: PreK teacher enactment of hybrid policies during COVID-19	6
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	6
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO	6
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
Equity audits and school resource allocation: Applying critical resource theory to increase equal opportunity in schools	5
Affective philanthropy and the im/possibility of governance: the LEGO Foundation’s involvement in public education	5
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations	5
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Pursuing social justice through education policy programmes: capturing subtleties with a modified welfare regime analysis	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
Education in Spite of Policy	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	4
Unraveling the vicious cycle: suspension and academic performance in Indiana	4
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	4
Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement	4
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	4
Autism and educational governance: diagnostic regimes in England and Wales	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	4
The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers	3
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	3

A decade of the Superintendence of education in Chile: emerging juridification influence on principals’ professionalism	3
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	3
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	3
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	3
Little-p policy production: exploring policy making in schools through the analytic of policy enactment	3
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	3
Policy as cultural artefact: value attributed to student voice in the field of Victorian policy production	3
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	3
The rise of law in education - exploring three drivers of juridification in the context of a changing welfare state	3
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	3
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	3
The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms , edited	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
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3
English for all? Examining the urban bias of a bilingual education programme in Spain	3
Revisiting Hargreaves 30 years on: justice research, symbolic control and the pedagogic politics of recognition	3
The culturally nourishing schooling project and indigenous resurgence: the possible and the promise for indigenous education	3
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	3
The construction of neoliberal subjects through China’s English language education policies	2
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
After school? Are we conscripts of modernity?; a postscript to Against School ¹	2
‘Happy land’ versus ‘across the river’: spatial imaginaries and school choice in a segregated city	2
The affective milieu of school market competition: using affect and governmentality to study market competition	2
Education policy for the common (good): reshaping education, societies, and citizenship	2
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
Problems and possibilities of neoliberal education reforms: accountability, high-stakes testing, and inequality	2
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: policy enactment and partnership building during times of crisis	2
‘Clusters’ and ‘place-based approaches’: on the problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in senior secondary schooling	2
Problematising the educational leader policy in Australian early childhood education and care	2
The shifting meanings of wellbeing in Australian schooling policy	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Forces shaping educational policy: institutionalizing Forest School as a case of grassroots-to-state dynamics	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Participation and co-design in digital education research: navigating between instrumental and critical approaches	2
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch: school autonomy as scalar politics	2
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	2