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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores54
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education37
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana27
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload26
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures26
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education23
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 9781032329822
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists21
Re-conceptualising education policy trajectories in a globalised world: lessons from a multi-level comparison of accountability in France and Quebec20
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations20
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education19
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education17
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination17
Humanism and democracy in comparative education16
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark16
Correction15
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method14
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–201814
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s14
Comparative education and its discontents14
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies14
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators13
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities13
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism13
Editorial13
Education for Societal Transformation: Alternatives for a Just Future13
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau13
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data13
Comparative education as a political project12
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®12
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy12
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique12
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative12
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas11
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism9
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law9
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges9
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education8
School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago8
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy8
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence: the uneven development of colonial schooling in Cyprus and Singapore8
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency8
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao8
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?8
The Oxford handbook of the history of education; Handbook of historical studies in education. Debates, tensions, and directions7
Missing in action? The World Bank’s surveys of teacher absenteeism in sub-Saharan Africa7
Concluding reflections: current issues and future directions for comparative studies in early childhood education7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China7
Education and social justice in Japan7
Reimagining national systems: Cosmopolitan Nationalism as a framework for educational regeneration7
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future7
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems7
Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field Through an Assemblage Theory Lens7
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