OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Education is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education	39
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education	38
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana	34
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures	34
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload	32
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores	31
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
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education	25
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education	25
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination	24
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations	23
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society	22
Humanism and democracy in comparative education	20
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies	19
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark	19
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future	18
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
Correction	16
Testing beyond accountability: a policy-instrument approach to the evolution and changing uses of large-scale assessments	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
Comparative education and its discontents	16
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism	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
Editorial	14
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau	14
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®	13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators	13
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea	12
Comparative education as a political project	12
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism	12
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique	12
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy	12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative	11
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas	11
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data	11
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law	10
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?	10
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges	10
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times	9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn	9
Ontological politics of decolonisation in comparative education	9
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency	8
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education	8
Education and social justice in Japan	7
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023	7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy	7
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: how international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education	7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China	7
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao	7
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future	7
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems	7
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Apprehending the subject? The significance of the categorisation debate in decolonial studies for the social sciences	6
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education	6
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education	6
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration	6
Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy	6
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens	6
‘Beyond’ critique: universities, human rights, decolonisation, and the Sustainable Development Goals	6
Comparative education: and now?	6
Comparative education and international relations	5
Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment	5
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being	5
Correction	5
Education, curriculum, and nation-building: contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism	5
From a crisis of results to a crisis of wellbeing – education reform and the declining sense of school belonging in Sweden	5
Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis , edited by Eleftherios Kleri	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
Transnational academic mobility and knowledge production: learning and being differently in the global education policy field through multiple selves	5
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme	5
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education	4

Internationalization, global higher education and postcolonial critiques	4
The impact of Covid-19 on the institutional fabric of higher education: old patterns, new dynamics, and changing rules?	4
The politics of education on China’s periphery: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ – or honestly?	4
Decolonisation as Dis-Enclosure : overcoming the dangers of positionality and identity in comparative education	4
Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States	4
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education	4
International students in Soviet and Russian universities: a critical analysis of changing rationales 1950s – 2025	4
An answer to everything? Four framings of girls’ schooling and gender equality in education	4
'It's no problem!': perspectives on inclusion, parenting girls and education	3
Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach	3
Examining Teach for All: International Perspectives on A Growing Global Network	3
Creeping anglicisation: school inspection in Scotland and Ireland	3
Who produces ‘Global’ education policy knowledge? Epistemic communities, networks, and power in global education governance	3
The dance of managerialism and professionalism: a fresh perspective on educational systems and reform	3
Beyond decolonisation: criticism, comparison and conjectures from the global south	3
Understanding China’s policy responses to PISA: using a ti and yong framework	3
Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond	3
An invitation to an interdependent mode of academic engagement in comparative and global education studies: a response to Edward Vickers’ criticism	3
Academic workforce in France and the UK in historical perspectives	3
Kids on earth: the learning potential of 5 billion minds	3
Developmentalism as colonial residue: historicising the onto-epistemic foundations of the global education policy field	3