OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review of 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining and understanding dyslexia: past, present and future	108
What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas?	38
Rethinking teacher education: The trouble with accountability	35
The quest for better teaching	25
The American experience: towards a 21st century definition of dyslexia	24
What is global higher education?	21
Moving on up: ‘first in family’ university graduates in England	20
The human labour of school data: exploring the production of digital data in schools	19
Evidence of teaching practice in an age of accountability: when what can be counted isn’t all that counts	17
Dyslexia debated, then and now: a historical perspective on the dyslexia debate	17
The micro-politics of cultural change: a Chinese doctoral student’s learning journey in Australia	17
Converged play characteristics for early childhood education: multi-modal, global-local, and traditional-digital	15
Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	13
The dyslexia debate: life without the label	13
Interventions fostering well-being of schoolteachers: a review of research	13
Unpacking autonomy for empirical comparative investigation	12
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools	12
Gender stereotyping in mothers’ and teachers’ perceptions of boys’ and girls’ mathematics performance in Ireland	12
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	12
The connections and disconnections between teacher education policy and research: reframing evidence	12
Pedagogical practice and students’ perceptions of fully online flipped instruction during COVID-19	11
The reform of initial teacher education in Wales: from vision to reality	11
Teacher education research, policy and practice: finding future research directions	11
British teachers’ declining job quality: evidence from the Skills and Employment Survey	11
Between-school stratification of academic curricular offerings in upper secondary education: school decision-making, curriculum policy context, and the educational marketplace	10

A rising tide of access: what consequences for equitable learning in Ethiopia?	10
Does autonomy exist? Comparing the autonomy of teachers and senior leaders in England and Turkey	9
From subject choice to career path: Female STEM graduates in the UK labour market	9
Assessing the value of SCOTENS as a cross-border professional learning network in Ireland using the Wenger–Trayner value-creation framework	9
Has the mental health and wellbeing of teachers in England changed over time? New evidence from three datasets	9
Comparative research on teachers and teacher education: global perspectives to inform UNESCO’s SDG 4 agenda	9
Randomised controlled trials and the interventionisation of education	9
The Isle of Wight studies: the scope and scale of reading difficulties	8
Exploring dynamic processes within the ecological university: a focus on the adaptive cycle	8
Children, classrooms and challenging behaviour: do the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few?	8
Mathematics teachers and social justice: a systematic review of empirical studies	7
Assessment and learning: an in-depth analysis of change in one school’s assessment culture	7
Pathways from the early language and communication environment to literacy outcomes at the end of primary school; the roles of language development and social development	7
Missing values: engaging the value of higher education and implications for future measurements	7
Research capacity-building in teacher education	7
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	7
Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers	7
Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn	7
Vocational education: a poor second choice? A comparison of the labour market outcomes of academic and vocational graduates in China	7
What should schools do to promote wonder?	7
The micro-politics of the enactment of a school literacy policy	6
Identifying merit and potential beyond grades: opportunities and challenges in using contextual data in undergraduate admissions at nine highly selective English universities	6
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	6
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	6
The spirit of research	6
Myths about students in higher education: separating fact from folklore	6
‘Shi men’ as key doctoral practice: understanding international doctoral students’ learning communities and research culture in China	6
Learning cultures: understanding learning in a school-university partnership	6
“Induction and off you go”: professional development for teachers in transnational education	6
Student loans and participation in postgraduate education: the case of English master’s loans	5
Can SENCOs do their job in a bubble? The impact of Covid-19 on the ways in which we conceptualise provision for learners with special educational needs	5
Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea oftianxia	5
A validation study for a short-version scale to assess 21^stcentury skills in flipped EFL classrooms	5
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	5
Standards in education: reforms, stagnation and the need to rethink	5
Overcoming diverse approaches to vocational education and training to combat climate change: the case of low energy construction in Europe	5
Virtue as a response to pandemic and crisis	5
International development higher education: Looking from the past, looking to the future	5
The role of teachers’ implicit social goals in pedagogical reforms in Tanzania	5
When the ‘mindfulness wars’ enter the classroom: making sense of the critique of school-based mindfulness	5
The Problem of Dyslexia: historical perspectives	4
Test anxiety: Is it associated with performance in high-stakes examinations?	4
Redefining student voice: applying the lens of critical pragmatism	4
Theoretical and practical knowledge in social pedagogy: levels and agents of the pedagogical knowledge production	4
Perceived discrimination against Dutch Muslim youths in the school context and its relation with externalising behaviour	4
Against Michael Hand’s Against Autonomy as An Educational Aim	4
The political rhetoric of parity of esteem	4
The marginalised few: reflections from the lived experiences of forced displaced academics in Turkish academia	4
Track prejudice in Belgian secondary schools: examining the influence of social-psychological and structural school features	4
Professional contraction and the growth of teacher confidence. Experiences in the teaching of poetry from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland	4

Direct and indirect influences of familial socioeconomic status on students’ science achievement	3
Knowledge, expertise and policy in the examinations crisis in England	3
Constructing ‘good teaching’ through written lesson observation feedback	3
Decolonial perspectives on global higher education: Disassembling data infrastructures, reassembling the field	3
Locked in: understanding the ‘irreversibility’ of powerful private supplementary tutoring markets	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Secular teachers in Jewish religious schools: passing, resistance, and freedom of religion	3
The impact of working conditions on the UK’s teaching assistants	3
‘Start-up’ capital: cultivating the elite child in an elite international kindergarten in Shenzhen, China	3
A capability approach to understanding academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs in Ireland	3
Interconnected learning between university and the workplace: a socio-cultural perspective of graduate employability in the UK	3
Contemporary education and guiding pedagogical principals: the prospects for an embodied and intersubjective interpretation of phenomenology	3
A Pioneer in Context: T R Miles and the Bangor Dyslexia Unit	3
‘We want to, but we can’t’: pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach primary physical education	3
Gesturing towards decolonial teaching praxis and unlearning colonial methods: teaching reflections in the struggle to decolonise research methodologies	3
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	3
Towards an educational humanities for teacher education: Building the relational, emotional, and ethical bases of teaching practice	2
How an educational experiment creates motivating conditions for children to role-play a child-initiated PlayWorld	2
Pedagogies for the future: ethnographic reflections on two Latin American learning journeys	2
University? No thanks! An empirical study of why German apprentices with the Abitur choose not to go to university	2
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	2
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	2
Class and classification: the London Word Blind Centre for Dyslexic children, 1962–1972	2
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	2
Is there a place for place in educational attainment policy?	2
Knowledgeable but not specialist: Virtual School Heads’ experiences of supporting autistic children in care	2
Open-plan schooling and everyday utopias: Australia and Denmark in the 1970s	2
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	2
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	2
Parity of participation? Primary-school children reflect critically on being successful during schooling	2
Country houses repurposed as private schools: building on inequality	2
Inequality in skills for learning: do gaps in children’s socio-emotional development widen over time according to family background?	2
Gender differences in students’ perceptions of teacher and peer feedback in mathematics: lessons from Denmark	2
Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children	2
Trends in educational stratification during China’s Great Transformation	2
Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education	2
A critical examination of the educational policy discourse on/for school extra-curricular activities – a Deweyan perspective	2
Mathematics curriculum waves within vocational education	2
‘It made me think how I should treat others and how I should help people who need it’: The complexities of exploring the impact of Holocaust education	2
The educational competence of the European Court of Human Rights: judicial pedagogies of religious symbols in classrooms	2
The state and ‘field’ of comparative higher education	2
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru: a biosocial pedagogy	2