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

Article	Citations
A historical perspective on the OECD’s ‘humanitarian turn’: PISA for Development and the Learning Framework 2030	36
The internationalisation of China’s higher education: soft power with ‘Chinese characteristics’	30
Providing a platform for ‘what works’: platform-based governance and the reshaping of teacher learning through the OECD’s PISA4U	25
The multiple meanings of ‘student-centred’ or ‘learner-centred’ education, and the case for a more flexible approach to defining it	24
Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics	21
How and why policy design matters: understanding the diverging effects of public-private partnerships in education	21
Introduction contextualising global flows of competency-based education: polysemy, hybridity and silences	20
Towards (comparative) educational research for a finite future	20
Blurring the boundaries. University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education	18
Outcome-based accountability regimes in OECD countries: a global policy model?	17
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?	17
Educational inequality and state-sponsored elite education: the case of the Dutch gymnasium	17
Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law	17
Transnational competence frameworks and national curriculum-making: the case of Sweden	16
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	14
Global rankings at a local cost? The strategic pursuit of status and the third mission	13
Translating PISA, translating the world	13
Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps	12
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	12
Parents, schools and the twenty-first-century state: comparative perspectives	12
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	12
Imagining globally competent learners: experts and education policy-making beyond the nation-state	11
Scholarship in times of crises: towards a trans-discipline of early childhood	10
Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India	10
Aligning policy ideas and power: the roots of thecompetitiveness framein European education policy	10

Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting	10
Moral priority or skill priority: a comparative analysis of key competencies frameworks in China and the United States	10
Global university rankings and Russia's quest for national sovereignty	9
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	9
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago	9
Comparative studies of early childhood education and care: beyond methodological nationalism	9
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	8
School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions	8
21st century skills in the United States: a late, partial and silent reform	8
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	8
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	8
Language of instruction: a question of disconnected capabilities	8
Contextualising the achievement gap: assessing educational achievement, inequality, and disadvantage in high-Income countries	8
The autonomy of higher education in Finland and Sweden: global management trends meet national political culture and governance models	7
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore	7
Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education	7
Some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research	7
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda	7
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	7
Comparative education as a political project	6
What kind of citizens? Constructing ‘Young Europeans’ through loud borrowing in curriculum policy-making in Kosovo	6
The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu	6
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	6
Framing Vietnamese scholars’ negotiation of knowledge production: a positioning perspective	6
The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation	6
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	6
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	6
Taiwanese multiculturalism and the political appropriation of new immigrants’ languages	6
What it means to be Korean: national identity in North and South Korean elementary textbooks, 1960–2019	5
The elusiveness of the common school in Austria. PISA, politics and the survival of selection in a conservative regime	5
Boundary control and education policy in federal systems: explaining sub-federal resilience in Canada and Germany	5
Institutionalist perspectives on the dynamics of post-conflict education reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
Comparison and explanation: a long saga	5
Conditional hospitality and coercive concern: countertopographies of Islamophobia in American and Danish schools	5
Empowerment from what? Teacher ‘citizenship talk’ practices for migrant children in China	5
School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic	4
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	4
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	4
Structure-reinforced privilege: educational inequality in the Singaporean primary school choice system	4
The introduction of competence-based education into the compulsory school curriculum in France (2002–2017): hybridity and polysemy as conditions for change	4
School choice, policy feedback effects, and policy outcomes: understanding the relationship between government policy design and parent decisions to “stay” or “defect” from public education	4
Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China	4
The metrification of teaching: student evaluation of teaching in the United States, Germany and Colombia	4
Learning from comparative ethnographic studies of early childhood education and care	4
Raising cosmopolitan children: Chinese middle-class parents’ educational strategies	4
Practicing autonomy in a local eduscape: schools, families and educational choice	4
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: findings and policy implications from an international comparative study in early childhood education	4
Global and local discourses in India’s policies for early childhood education: policy borrowing and local realities	3
'Policy traction' on social and emotional wellbeing: comparing the education systems of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland	3
Knowledge for the elites, competencies for the masses: political theatre of educational reforms in the Russian Federation	3

Montessori for all? Indian experiments in ‘child education’, 1920s–1970s	3
Comparative education and international relations	3
Happiness education and the Free Year Program in South Korea	3
In response to Acker: black and African feminist theories on gender and education	3
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec	3
How country size matters for institutional change: comparing skill formation policies in Germany and Switzerland	3
Singapore’s educational export strategies: ‘branding’ and ‘selling’ education in a favourable global policy marketspace	3
Romancing the public school: attachment, publicness and privatisation	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Comparative education concepts, methods and practices in the emerging anthropocene educational space: from ‘measuring the other’ to ‘supporting the other’?	2
The politics of ‘multiculturalism’ in language education: an analysis of curriculum guidelines in Taiwan	2
Introducing the special issue on ‘Comparative studies in early childhood education: past, present and future’	2
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	2
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	2
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	2
Curricular design for competencies in basic education in Uruguay: Positions and current debates (2008–2019)	2
Comparative education: and now?	2
Comparative education and intercultural education: relations and revisions	2
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	2
Crossing academic borders: exploring the role of social capital in academic hiring	2
Inclusion and social justice in neoliberal India: examining the world’s largest public-funded programme for private education	2
Recognizing prior learning in vocational education and training: global ambitions and actual implementation in four countries	2
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	2
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	2
Maintaining meritocratic mythologies: Teach For America and Ako Mātātupu: Teach First New Zealand	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
‘Curui’: weaving climate justice and gender equality into Fijian educational policies and practices	2