OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Education Policy is 6. 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
Rubbing against data infrastructure(s): methodological explorations on working with(in) the impossibility of exteriority	18
Affective ideology and education policy: implications for critical policy research and practice	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
Theorising social and emotional wellbeing in schools: a framework for analysing educational policy	12
Discipline lessons from American faith-based autonomous schools: a narrative of power and ‘mini-public’ ideology	12
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
Exiting Detroit for school: inequitable choice sets and school quality	11
‘We have to be really careful’: policy intermediaries preventing violent extremism in an era of risk	10
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
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
From performative to professional accountability: re-imagining ‘the field of judgment’ through teacher professional development	9

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
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
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
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
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
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