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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Test-based accountability in the Norwegian context: exploring drivers, expectations and strategies	29
From an age of measurement to an evidence era? Policy-making in teacher education in England	24
Repackaging authority: artificial intelligence, automated governance and education trade shows	23
From democracy to managerialism: foundation universities as the embodiment of Finnish university policies	22
Place-based governance and leadership in decentralised school systems: evidence from England	21
Affective ideology and education policy: implications for critical policy research and practice	18
Rubbing against data infrastructure(s): methodological explorations on working with(in) the impossibility of exteriority	18
‘Not (yet) ready for the mainstream’ – newly arrived migrant students in a separate educational program	16
The OECD Learning Compass 2030 and the future of disciplinary learning: a Bernsteinian critique	15
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	14
‘Education without limits’: The digital resettlement of post-secondary education and training in Singapore in the COVID-19 era	13
The epistemic culture of the OECD and its agenda for higher education	13
Discipline lessons from American faith-based autonomous schools: a narrative of power and ‘mini-public’ ideology	12
Theorising social and emotional wellbeing in schools: a framework for analysing educational policy	12
Exiting Detroit for school: inequitable choice sets and school quality	11
The ‘web of conditions’ governing England’s climate change education policy landscape	11
The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance	11
Experiences of arbitrary management among Finnish academics in an era of academic capitalism	10
“This is civil disobedience. I’ll continue.”: the racialization of school board meeting rules	10
Winning the war by losing the battle? The marketization of the expanding preschool sector in Sweden	10
‘We have to be really careful’: policy intermediaries preventing violent extremism in an era of risk	10
From performative to professional accountability: re-imagining ‘the field of judgment’ through teacher professional development	9
What moves us also moves policy: the role of affect in mobilizing education policy on sustainability	9
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	9
A conceptual framework for understanding juridification of and in education	9

Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	8
Whither employment protections? Deregulation and the flexibilisation of the teaching workforce in the state-funded sector	8
1996: the OECD policy-making assemblage	8
Data infrastructures as sites of preclusion and omission: the representation of students and schooling	8
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument	8
Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China	7
‘Lack of quality’ in Swedish adult education: a policy study	7
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	7
Topological genealogy: a methodology to research transnational digital governance in/through/as change	7
Actantial construction of career guidance in parliament of Finland’s education policy debates 1967–2020	7
Practitioner advocates in Japan: bringing in knowledge of practice for policy translation	7
‘The very best generation of teachers ever’: teachers in post-2010 ministerial speeches	7
Reframing community (dis)engagement: the discursive connection between undemocratic policy enactment, minoritized communities and resistance	7
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	7
The ‘production’ of education: the turn from equity to efficiency in U.S. federal education policy	7
Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy	7
Seeing families as policy actors: exploring higher-order thinking reforms in Singapore through low-income families’ perspectives	6
Democracy and teachers: the im/possibilities for pluralisation in evidence-based practice	6
Externalisations in the Portuguese parliament: analysing power struggles and (de-)legitimation with Multiple Streams Approach	6
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	6
Tensions between policy aspirations and enactment: assessment and inclusion for refugee background students	6
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	6
Situating subjectivities in the macrosocial policy context: critical/queer multifocal policy research	6
Policy rhetorics and responsibilization in the formation of early childhood Educational Leaders in Australia	6
Pursuing quality in early childhood education with a government-regulated voucher: views of parents and service providers in Hong Kong	6
Taking education to account? The limits of law in institutional and professional practice	6
Discourse, legitimacy, and bottom-to-bottom change: haredi activism to promote secular education in New-York Hasidic Schools	6
The nuts and bolts of quality assurance in Ethiopian higher education: practices, pitfalls, and prospects	6
Narratives of academic staff involvement in Athena SWAN and race equality charter marks in UK higher education institutions	6
Paradise lost or created? How higher-education staff perceive the impact of policy on students	5
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	5
The Model Of Becoming Aware: disabled subjectivities, policy enactment and new exclusions in higher education	5
Constructions of professionalism and the democratic mandate in education A discourse analysis of Norwegian public policy documents	5
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	5
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	4
Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’	4
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	4
More than meets the eye: uncovering the evolution of the OECD’s institutional priorities in education	4
Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem	4
Performativity, managerial professionalism and the purpose of professional development: a South African case study	3
Making space for ‘learning’: appropriating new learning agendas in early childhood education and care	3
A methodological approach to the analysis of PISA microblogs: social media during the release of the PISA 2015 results	3
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	3
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	3
Discursive burdens: negotiating difference in an education movement	3
Widening participation policy as practice: category work and local policy appropriations at student support units	3
‘What works’ depends: teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context in international large-scale surveys	3
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	3
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	3
The Global Education Industry in a Microcosm: Public- Private Networks in German Public Schooling	3

Private actors in policy processes. entrepreneurs, edupreneurs and policyneurs	3
Coercion and consent for the U.S. education market: community engagement policy under racialized fiscal surveillance	3
How teachers see policy: school context, teacher inquiry, and policy visibility	3
A sinister side of student voice: surveillance, suspicion, and stigma	3
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	3
Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	2
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	2
Theorizing ‘affective infrastructure’ in education policy: articulating new political imaginaries for a more equitable future	2
Deliberation and decisionism in educational policymaking: How Nepali educational policymakers negotiate with foreign aid agencies	2
Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	2
The peacebuilding potential of technical and vocational education and training programmes in post-conflict Sierra Leone	2
Troubled spaces: negotiating school–community boundaries in northern Nigeria	2
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	2
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	2
The Emergence and Policy (mis)Alignment of Teach For Taiwan	2
Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy	2
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	2
Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice	2
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	2
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	2