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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	37
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	30
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	27
Early childhood education and care in South America — a new curricular wave?	26
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	24
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	19
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	18
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	18
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	17
A political sociology of education policy	17
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	17
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	14
School reform in an era of standardization. Authentic accountabilities	14
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	14
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	14
When policy intermediaries produce knowledge: A Bourdieusian analysis of the Education Endowment Foundation’s influence in a multi-academy trust	12
A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong	11
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	11
Venture philanthropy in public schools in Australia: tracing policy mobility and policy networks	11
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016	11
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	9
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	9
Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	8
Ability, inequality and post-pandemic schools. Rethinking contemporary myths of meritocracy	8

Fashioning groups that inhabit society’s fringes: the work of Australian VET research into disadvantage	8
Teachers’ work under responsibilising policies: an analysis of educators’ views on China’s 2021 educational reforms	8
Conservative philanthropies and organizations shaping U.S. educational policy and practice	8
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	8
Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education	7
Examining paradoxes of access in disability law: a critical analysis of the least restrictive environment	7
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	7
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	7
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and education	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	6
Public education, neoliberalism, and teachers: New York, Mexico City, Toronto	6
Effects of spatial competition on public educational efficiency: an analysis for the Chilean Metropolitan Region	5
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	5
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	5
The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	4
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	4
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
Education department policy constructions within highly political contexts: a critical policy study of multiculturalism	4
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	4
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	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
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument	4
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	4
STEM, social mobility and equality: avenues for widening access	4
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	3
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	3
“Don’t take it personally”: the scandal of school and democracy	3
Governing teachers’ subjectivity in neoliberal times: the fabrication of the bonsai teacher	3
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	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
Educational disadvantage and policy: expanding the spaces of assessment	3
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	3
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	3
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	2
A methodological approach to the analysis of PISA microblogs: social media during the release of the PISA 2015 results	2
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: policy enactment and partnership building during times of crisis	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms The new digital education policy landscape: from education systems to platforms , edited	2
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	2
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene	2
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	2
Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China	2

SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy	2
Undiminishing school governance: investigating ‘governance maturity theory’ for school governing bodies	2
The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught between work and family in academia	2
Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education	2
The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers	2
Exploring the contribution of NGOs to European education governance through social network analysis	2
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
‘Education without limits’: The digital resettlement of post-secondary education and training in Singapore in the COVID-19 era	2
A search for common ground: conversations about the toughest questions in K-12 education	2
Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools	2
Practitioner advocates in Japan: bringing in knowledge of practice for policy translation	1
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	1
How teachers see policy: school context, teacher inquiry, and policy visibility	1
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	1
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	1
Teaching in England Post-1988	1
Remediating deficits? Problem representations in Norwegian policies for newly qualified teachers	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy	1
Private English tutors’ agency amid China’s ‘double reduction’ policy: a Bourdieusian perspective	1
Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy	1
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	1
‘What works’ depends: teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context in international large-scale surveys	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	1
Early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	1
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	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
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	1
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	1
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	1