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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	41
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	38
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	37
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	32
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	27
Exploring school absences for children in care in England: systemic pressures, local challenges and admissions resistance	25
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	23
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	19
A political sociology of education policy	18
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	16
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	16
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	16
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	16
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	15
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	15
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	14
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	14
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	13
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	12
Time in education policy transfer. The seven temporalities of global school reform	12
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
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	11
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	11
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	10

Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	10
Teacher-led issue networks in Swedish ed-tech policymaking – the case of generative AI	9
Analyzing school leadership policy reform in Lebanon	9
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
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	7
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	7
Neurofarming HE: how to think, feel and act in the Ne(ur)oliberal university	7
Street-Level Bureaucracy in health promoting schools: a cross case analysis through Bourdieu’s capital theory	7
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher education	7
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	7
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO	6
Information and attitudes about a counter-cultural educational policy: a mixed study on school choice in Chile	6
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
Rootedness, continuity and connection: the value of place in discussions of social mobility	5
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	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
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations	5
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
Pursuing social justice through education policy programmes: capturing subtleties with a modified welfare regime analysis	5
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice	5
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	4
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	4
Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and imagining pluralism Metrics, standards and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and i	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	4
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	4
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	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
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	3
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	3
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	3
‘Clusters’ and ‘place-based approaches’: on the problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in senior secondary schooling	3
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	3
The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers	3
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3

A decade of the Superintendence of education in Chile: emerging juridification influence on principals’ professionalism	3
Little-p policy production: exploring policy making in schools through the analytic of policy enactment	3
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	3
Revisiting Hargreaves 30 years on: justice research, symbolic control and the pedagogic politics of recognition	3
Policy as cultural artefact: value attributed to student voice in the field of Victorian policy production	3
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	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
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	3
The rise of law in education - exploring three drivers of juridification in the context of a changing welfare state	3
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	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
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	3
Problematising the educational leader policy in Australian early childhood education and care	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
‘Happy land’ versus ‘across the river’: spatial imaginaries and school choice in a segregated city	2
Education policy for the common (good): reshaping education, societies, and citizenship	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	2
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: policy enactment and partnership building during times of crisis	2
Problems and possibilities of neoliberal education reforms: accountability, high-stakes testing, and inequality	2
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	2
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch: school autonomy as scalar politics	2
The construction of neoliberal subjects through China’s English language education policies	2
After school? Are we conscripts of modernity?; a postscript to Against School ¹	2
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Forces shaping educational policy: institutionalizing Forest School as a case of grassroots-to-state dynamics	2
The affective milieu of school market competition: using affect and governmentality to study market competition	2
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
The shifting meanings of wellbeing in Australian schooling policy	2
‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy	1
Physically active learning in education discourses: problem representations and subject positions in Norwegian policies	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	1
Teacher competence discourses: exposing, controlling, and punishing the ‘bad’ teacher	1
Private English tutors’ agency amid China’s ‘double reduction’ policy: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	1
Technologies of participation: designing consensus in the Better and Fairer Schools national review process	1
Unimaginable policies: from savage market orthodoxy to free HE in Chile	1
Anticipating disruption: artificial intelligence and minor experiments in education policy	1
Uncommon or too common? The discursive diffusion and transformation of charter edupreneurial policy ideas	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	1
Perverse impacts of competitive funding: public school principals as revenue generators in the grant economy	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	1
Review of ‘The culture trap, by Dr. Derron Wallace’ Review of ‘The culture trap, by Dr. Derron Wallace’ , by Veronica Poku, United States of America, Oxford University P	1
The making of the standard pupil through national final assessment criteria?	1
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	1
Anatomy of policy failure? Implications of the Australian Disability Royal Commission Inquiry for inclusive education	1
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	1
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	1
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	1
Precariously employed early career teachers and induction policies: a critical policy study	1
Fragile legitimacy of multi-academy trusts in England: the case for a clear set of indicators to engender trust in the academised school system	1
Remediating deficits? Problem representations in Norwegian policies for newly qualified teachers	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	1
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	1
Teaching in England Post-1988	1