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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Gaming’ in the English primary school: ‘do whatever you need to do to make your data look good’	37
Special issue introduction: education and the law: critical perspectives on juridification, education governance and social justice	34
‘I am done with that now.’ Sense of alienations in Finnish academia	31
Professional learning communities under test-based accountability: evidence from an Israeli intervention programme	26
Who can I be now? The complexity of students in policy enactment	25
Community educational pacts in Italy: an interpretation of UNESCO’s new social contract for education?	21
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education: explaining variation in teachers’ implementation of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness	20
Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire straits, educational reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gom	19
Reframing educational governance and its crisis through the ‘totally pedagogised society’	18
A political sociology of education policy	16
Policy networks and venture philanthropy: a network ethnography of ‘Teach for Australia’	15
A feminist critical heuristic for educational policy analysis: U.S. social emotional learning policy	14
The ‘Double-Reduction’ Education Policy in China: Three Prevailing Narratives	13
The pedagogics of language learning policy: Dussel, decoloniality, and the case of Pennsylvania	13
Hybrid network governance: methodologies of studying online and offline networking in global climate education policy	13
On the uses and use of NAPLAN: the hidden effects of test-based data-centric accountabilities	13
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	12
The pictorial turn that wasn’t (yet?): visuals and the study of education policy and governance	12
Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking	11
Federations of academic departments: performance-based funding and academic field-level expenditures at Russell group universities	11
Commoning education, challenging the state: the radical instability of Bachilleratos Populares in Buenos Aires	10
Rethinking educational federalism: using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina	10
The psychological complex in contemporary education policy	10
Power, authority and expertise: policy making about relationships and sex education in English primary schools	9

Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice	9
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	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
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: the development and application of a public-private index	8
“Inclusion has gone too far”: how a slogan became policy in Swedish education	8
Local pathways to sustainability education policies: a Comparative case study of three large school districts in the USA	8
Teacher positioning in educational ICT policies: implications for digital teacher identity development in under-resourced contexts	7
Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities	6
Working-class student-hood and ‘job-readiness’: Affective relations of class, gender and employability policy in higher education	6
Illusionary, silencing and civilising – (un)democratic practices in school governance	6
Educational equity in a global context: cases and conversations in educational ethics	6
Comparing two transfer spaces over time and against a global script: the case of school-autonomy-with-accountability	6
Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships	6
‘Embers, and fragments’: social haunting in youth work, impact measurement and policy networks	6
Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs	5
STEM, social mobility and equality: avenues for widening access	5
Resisting regulation: revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru	5
Keywords in education policy research: a conceptual toolbox	5
Crisis policy enactment: primary school leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England	5
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers	5
Policy implications of collective agency for inclusion: evidence from the Welsh context	5
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation	5
The ‘performative’ university: theoretical and personal reflections	5
Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement	4
The policy simulacrum: text, discourse and the hyperreal	4
Accountability with Chinese characteristics: exploring foreign teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform in international schools in China	4
What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education	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
(Re-)framing the teaching profession by reforming teacher education and careers in Chile	4
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	4
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership	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
Policy tug of war: EBacc, progress 8 and modern foreign languages in England	4
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
A decade of the Superintendence of education in Chile: emerging juridification influence on principals’ professionalism	3
The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught between work and family in academia	3
Private actors in education put to the test: justification work and orders of worth	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
What is the problem represented to be in China’s world-class university policy? A poststructural analysis	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
Understanding school segregation through micro-changes: evidence from upper secondary education in Stockholm	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
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
Race in education policy: school safety and the discursive legitimation of disproportionate punishment	3
Behind the scenes: an analysis of policy networks in the contemporary Israeli education landscape	2
Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos	2
Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils	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
Performance agreement through the lens of resource dependence theory	2
Unimaginable policies: from savage market orthodoxy to free HE in Chile	2
Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration	2
Understanding implicit reference societies in education policy	2
Disentangling the binomial change/inertia to the Chilean educational policy in the post-dictatorship era (1990–2022). A normative policy instrument perspective	2
Problematising the educational leader policy in Australian early childhood education and care	2
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools	2
The affective milieu of school market competition: using affect and governmentality to study market competition	2
The making of the standard pupil through national final assessment criteria?	2
Juridification through rights: how the European Court of Human Rights shapes higher education	2
Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’	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
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
History teachers as curriculum-makers in policy and practice: quantitative insights from England and Scotland	1
Global-national networks in education policy: Primary education, social enterprises and ‘Teach for Bangladesh’ Global-national networks in education policy: Primary education, social en	1
Anticipating disruption: artificial intelligence and minor experiments in education policy	1
Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem	1
Perverse impacts of competitive funding: public school principals as revenue generators in the grant economy	1
Precariously employed early career teachers and induction policies: a critical policy study	1
Resolving dilemmas: Swedish special educators and subject teachers’ perspectives on their enactment of inclusive education	1
Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage	1
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies	1
Ethnic segregation in schools: a study of non-decision making	1
What may be: policy enactment in education, a new conceptual framework with actor-network theory	1
‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy	1
Governing through ambiguity in the normalizing society: The lesson from Chinese transnational higher education regulation	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
Physically active learning in education discourses: problem representations and subject positions in Norwegian policies	1
Early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	1
Remediating deficits? Problem representations in Norwegian policies for newly qualified teachers	1
Anatomy of policy failure? Implications of the Australian Disability Royal Commission Inquiry for inclusive education	1
Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals’ recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools	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
Who takes initiative? The rise of education policy networks and the shifting balance of initiative-taking amongst education stakeholders in Israel	1
Contrasting approaches to educational equality: An intersectional perspective on educational policies in Belgium	1
Beyond neoliberal policy ideologies: tracing characteristics of social democratic ideologies in contemporary Danish education policy	1
Market mirages and the state’s role in professional learning: the case of English mathematics education	1
Uncommon or too common? The discursive diffusion and transformation of charter edupreneurial policy ideas	1
Teaching in England Post-1988	1
‘What works’ depends: teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context in international large-scale surveys	1