Comparative Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Comparative Education is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores39
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education38
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures35
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana35
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload32
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education32
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 9781032329827
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination26
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education25
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education25
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society23
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations23
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark21
Humanism and democracy in comparative education20
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies19
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future18
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s17
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method17
Testing beyond accountability: a policy-instrument approach to the evolution and changing uses of large-scale assessments17
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism16
Correction16
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership16
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–201816
Comparative education and its discontents16
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau14
The darker side of Tianxia (All-under-heaven): decoloniality, imperial histories and China’s internationalisation of higher education14
Reframing ELT authority in post-9/11 Pakistan: NGO mediation, donor influence, and scalar negotiation14
Rethinking twenty-first-century competency-based education: a Bildung -centred critique in comparative perspective using the Singapore curriculum as an a14
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities14
25+ years of global education agendas: emerging actors, evolving mechanisms, and changing interests13
Editorial13
Quantifying the self: Hensachi , Juku , and the governance of learning in neoliberal Japan13
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique12
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators12
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea12
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism12
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®11
Comparative education as a political project11
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data10
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative10
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy10
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas9
Who backs universities? Public attitudes and contemporary backlash9
Curriculum, environment and postcolonial antinomy: a Taiwanese case and its Asia-Pacific implications8
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 Law8
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges8
Ontological politics of decolonisation in comparative education8
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times7
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy7
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education7
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao7
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn7
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency7
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