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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for PISA scores40
A technology of global governance or the path to gender equality? Reflections on the role of indicators and targets for girls’ education32
‘Promises promises’: international organisations, promissory legitimacy and the re-negotiation of education futures30
Exploring postcolonial relationships within policy transfer: the case of learner-centred pedagogy in Ghana30
Governance by numbers 2.0: policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload28
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 9781032329824
UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education24
Comparative education or epistemological power games for world domination23
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists21
Mothers and their daughters’ education: a comparison of global and local aspirations19
Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education18
Trashing tradition: decoloniality and the rise of ideological dogmatism in comparative education18
Humanism and democracy in comparative education17
(Re)Imagining the future of education: a critical discourse analysis of digital transformation policies in China and Denmark17
Outsourcing of teaching English to speakers of other languages: towards an equitable society17
Education for societal transformation: alternatives for a just future16
Education in radical uncertainty: transgression in theory and method16
Comparative education and its discontents16
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: comparative case studies16
A fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the political and educational reforms of China, 1910s–1920s16
Correction16
Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970–201815
Learning to lead for transformation: an African perspective on educational leadership15
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling, and the Global Universalisation of Nationalism15
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities14
Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas13
The darker side of Tianxia (All-under-heaven): decoloniality, imperial histories and China’s internationalisation of higher education13
Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators13
Learning to be Chinese: colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau13
Editorial13
BRICS, sub-imperialism and education in Mozambique12
Revisiting Chinese citizenship education: from political socialisation for Confucian collectivism to a new individualism11
Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®11
The OECD’s influence on national higher education policies: internationalisation in Israel and South Korea11
The politics of higher education in China: the signal–response mechanism, downward tiered pressure escalation, and the Double First-Class University Initiative11
The motherland’s suffocating embrace: schooling and public discourse on Hong Kong identity under the National Security Law10
Ritual governance, rationalized bureaucracy, and ‘failure': the religio-spiritual dimension of global education policy10
Comparative education as a political project10
The association between family socioeconomic status and academic achievement: new estimates using three-level meta-analysis of PISA 2009–2018 data10
A world agenda? How was universal primary education selected as a UN Millennium Development Goal?9
Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao9
Implementing educational reform—cases and challenges9
‘The future we want’? – the ideal twenty-first century learner and education’s neuro-affective turn9
Internationalisation struggles and student mobility: ethnic exclusion and racism in Philippine higher education8
The Dao of complexity: making sense and making waves in turbulent times8
Beyond the orthodoxies of decolonial standpoints: medicine, biography, and African agency8
Comparative education and comparative classroom observation systems7
‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China7
Happiness, politics and education reform in South Korea: building ‘happy human capital’ for the future7
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–20237
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition: evidence from Ghana’s free senior high school policy7
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