OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	38
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	38
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	37
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	34
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	33
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	29
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	29
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	26
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	26
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	26
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	24
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	23
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	21
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	21
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	19
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	18
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	18
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	17
Testing beyond accountability: a policy-instrument approach to the evolution and changing uses of large-scale assessments	17
Comparative education and its discontents	17
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	17
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	17
Correction	17
Reframing ELT authority in post-9/11 Pakistan: NGO mediation, donor influence, and scalar negotiation	15
25+ years of global education agendas: emerging actors, evolving mechanisms, and changing interests	15

Quantifying the self: Hensachi , Juku , and the governance of learning in neoliberal Japan	15
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	14
The darker side of Tianxia (All-under-heaven): decoloniality, imperial histories and China’s internationalisation of higher education	14
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	14
Rethinking twenty-first-century competency-based education: a Bildung -centred critique in comparative perspective using the Singapore curriculum as an a	13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
The Global Education Policy Field: Theorisation and Problematization	13
Editorial	13
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	13
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	11
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	11
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	11
Who backs universities? Public attitudes and contemporary backlash	10
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	10
Curriculum, environment and postcolonial antinomy: a Taiwanese case and its Asia-Pacific implications	10
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	9
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	9
Comparative education as a political project	9
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	9
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	8
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	8
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	8
Ontological politics of decolonisation in comparative education	8
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	7
Romantic or enlightened? A sentiment analysis on Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong history textbooks	7
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education	7
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	7
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	7
‘The policy is great, but … ’: frontline actor responses to foundational learning reforms	7
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	6
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	6
Education and social justice in Japan	6
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	6
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	6
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: how international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education	6
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	5
Correction	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	5
Comparative education: and now?	5
Comparative education and international relations	5
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	5
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	5
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	5
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	4

The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	4
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	4
Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	4
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	4
Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
Who produces ‘Global’ education policy knowledge? Epistemic communities, networks, and power in global education governance	2
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	2
The decline in pupils’ emotional engagement with school. How does England compare to other countries?	2
Teacher educators as scholar citizens: activism and resistance in uncertain times	2
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	2
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	2
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	2
Rising China’s soft power in Southeast Asia: impact on education and popular culture	2
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
Between global mandates and local arrangements: a comparative analysis of inclusive education implementation across Nordic, Western European, and East Asian educational systems	2
Normalising university graduate unemployment in China: governing through employability and moral exemplarism	2
Kids on earth: the learning potential of 5 billion minds	2
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	2
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2