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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Empire, civil society, and the beginnings of colonial education in India	31
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA: Challenging OECD’s Educational Order	25
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	24
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	18
Migration for school choice: urbanisation and rural social stratification in China	18
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	16
The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation	16
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	15
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	14
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	14
Comparison and explanation: a long saga	14
Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030 Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the fac	13
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	12
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	11
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	11
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	11
‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices	11
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	11
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	11
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	10
School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic	10
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	10
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	10
The promises and expectations of ILSAs regarding policymaking: lessons from Latin America	9
Romancing the public school: attachment, publicness and privatisation	9

Culture and education: looking back to culture through education	9
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care	9
Montessori for all? Indian experiments in ‘child education’, 1920s–1970s	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
‘Femininity’ and the history of women’s education: shifting the frame	8
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists	8
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	8
Unthinking critique: when will ‘critical’ global education policy scholarship emerge from Marx’s shadow?	7
Stretching spatial theories in comparative education: new approaches for challenging times	7
Shadow education in the Middle East Shadow education in the Middle East , by Mark Bray and Anas Hajar, London, Routledge, 2022, 122 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 97810323298	7
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	7
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	7
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	7
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	6
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	6
Understanding campus-based intercultural social capital for minority university students in Hong Kong	6
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	6
Empowerment from what? Teacher ‘citizenship talk’ practices for migrant children in China	6
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: findings and policy implications from an international comparative study in early childhood education	6
Taiwanese multiculturalism and the political appropriation of new immigrants’ languages	5
Happiness education: holistic learning for sustainable well-being	5
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	5
Time-worn pebbles or unpolished gemstones? (Un)usable pasts and possible futures of comparative education	5
The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu	5
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	5
The elusiveness of the common school in Austria. PISA, politics and the survival of selection in a conservative regime	5
School curriculum reform in contemporary Japan: competencies, subjects, and the ambiguities of PISA	5
Ethnophilosophy as intellectual resources: self-reflective inquiry into the onto-epistemic foundations of global education policy research	5
The global education policy field: theorization and problematization	5
Comparative Education: A Field in Discussion Comparative Education: A Field in Discussion , by David A. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2022, 266 pp., $72 (paperback), $180 (hard	4
Comparative education and intercultural education: relations and revisions	4
Correction	4
Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education	4
In response to Acker: black and African feminist theories on gender and education	4
Maintaining meritocratic mythologies: Teach For America and Ako Mātātupu: Teach First New Zealand	4
Education and intercultural identity: a dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera	4
Maintaining the legitimacy of school choice in the segregated schooling environment of Amsterdam	4
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	4
School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions	4
The same and the change: a topology of a Sino–French joint programme	4
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	4
The metrification of teaching: student evaluation of teaching in the United States, Germany and Colombia	4
Higher education in market-oriented socialist Vietnam: new players, discourses, and practices	4
Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law	4
Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty	4
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	4
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Internal orientalism on Taiwan: the ROC's Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and its portrayal of Tibetan Buddhism	3
Overeducation and overskilling in Latin America: evidence from PIAAC	3

PISA, policy and the OECD: respatialising global educational governance through PISA for schools	3
Confucianism in multicultural China: ‘official knowledge’ vs marginalised views	3
International handbook on education development in Asia Pacific	3
Comparative education: and now?	3
Scientification or political legitimation? Tracing the concepts of evidence and context in Nordic school reforms	3
Unsettling the university: confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	2
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	2
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	2
Education and social justice in Japan	2
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	2
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	2
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda	2
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions	2
Relationality and learning in Oceania: Contextualizing education for development	2
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	2
Educational reconstruction and the promotion of local identity: Okinawa in the American occupation 1945–1972	2
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?	2
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	2