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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	39
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	38
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	35
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	35
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	32
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	32
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	27
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	26
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	25
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	25
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	23
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	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	20
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	19
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	18
Testing beyond accountability: a policy-instrument approach to the evolution and changing uses of large-scale assessments	17
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s	17
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method	17
Comparative education and its discontents	16
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	16
Correction	16
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership	16
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018	16
Rethinking twenty-first-century competency-based education: a Bildung -centred critique in comparative perspective using the Singapore curriculum as an a	14

Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities	14
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	14
The darker side of Tianxia (All-under-heaven): decoloniality, imperial histories and China’s internationalisation of higher education	14
Reframing ELT authority in post-9/11 Pakistan: NGO mediation, donor influence, and scalar negotiation	14
Quantifying the self: Hensachi , Juku , and the governance of learning in neoliberal Japan	13
25+ years of global education agendas: emerging actors, evolving mechanisms, and changing interests	13
Editorial	13
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	12
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	12
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	12
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	12
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	11
Comparative education as a political project	11
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	10
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	10
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	10
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	9
Who backs universities? Public attitudes and contemporary backlash	9
Ontological politics of decolonisation in comparative education	8
Curriculum, environment and postcolonial antinomy: a Taiwanese case and its Asia-Pacific implications	8
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
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	8
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	7
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	7
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	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
Education and social justice in Japan	6
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	6
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: how international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education	6
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	6
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	5
Correction	5
Comparing stakeholders’ perceptions of the implementation of ‘learner-centred’ pedagogy: the case of Rwanda	5
Comparative education: and now?	5
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	5
The politics of tinkering: developing the PISA assessment of global competence	5
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	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
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	4
Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	4
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	4

Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	4
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4
Comparative education and international relations	4
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	4
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	3
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
Kids on earth: the learning potential of 5 billion minds	3
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	3
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	3
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	3
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	2
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	2
New practices of comparison, quantification and expertise in education: Conducting empirically based research	2
Platforms, profits and PISA for schools: new actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance	2
Challenging the internationalisation of education: a critique of the global gaze	2
Education and choice in the United Kingdom: measuring school choice policies in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (1980–2020)	2
The effects of private schooling on pupil achievement: a global systemic analysis	2
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	2
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	2
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	2
Colonial legacies and the barriers to educational justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan	2
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts Globalisation, Privatisation, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-C	2
Who produces ‘Global’ education policy knowledge? Epistemic communities, networks, and power in global education governance	2
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	2
‘Our system fits us’: comparing teacher accountability, motivation, and sociocultural context in Finland and Singapore	2
The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions	2
The long road to systemic improvement in education: a comparative multi-level case study in federal countries	2
Normalising university graduate unemployment in China: governing through employability and moral exemplarism	2