OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Educational Change 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The changes we need: Education post COVID-19	205
Making sense of teacher agency for change with social and epistemic network analysis	25
Models of regulation, education policies, and changes in the education system: a long-term analysis of the Chilean case	22
Leading new, deeper forms of collaborative cultures: Questions and pathways	19
Understanding teacher entrepreneurial behavior in schools: Conceptualization and empirical investigation	19
Back to the future? Reflections on three phases of education policy reform in Wales and their implications for teachers	18
Learning within sustainable educational innovation: An analysis of teachers’ perceptions and leadership practice	18
Continuity and change in educators’ professional learning networks	18
Teachers’ potential to promote students’ deeper learning in whole-class teaching: An observation study in Norwegian classrooms	17
Structural barriers to inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities in China	13
Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development	13
How can education systems improve? A systematic literature review	11
Local education authority’s quality management within a coupled school system: Strategies, actions, and tensions	11
Shifting the focus of research on effective professional development: Insights from a case study of implementation	11
How can principal leadership practices promote teacher collaboration and organizational change? A longitudinal multiple case study of three school improvement initiatives	10
Educational leaders’ problem-solving for educational improvement: Belief validity testing in conversations	10
Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-shaping of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions	9
Educational reform and teachers’ agency in reconstructing pedagogical practices in Kazakhstan	9
Is more autonomy better? How school actors perceive school autonomy and effectiveness in context	8
The times they are a-changin’:Teaching and learning beyond COVID-19	7
Lightening the academic burden on Chinese children: A discourse analysis of recent education policies	7
Sense-making of autonomy and control: Comparing school leaders in public and independent schools in a Swedish case	7
Middle leaders translating knowledge about improvement: Making change in the school and preschool organisation	7
Rethinking teacher evaluation using human, social, and material capital	7
Co-creation and decision-making with students about teaching and learning: a systematic literature review	7

Tearing down the invisible walls: Designing, implementing, and theorizing psychologically safer co-teaching for inclusion	6
Exploring causal relationships qualitatively: An empirical illustration of how causal relationships become visible across episodes and contexts	6
Inside school turnaround: What drives success?	6
What do we know about interventions to improve educator wellbeing? A systematic literature review	6
Soliciting, vetting, monitoring, and evaluating: A study of state education agencies’ use of external providers for school improvement efforts	5
Pushing against the grain: Networks and their systems for sustaining and spreading deeper learning	5
Owning educational change in Korean schools: three driving forces behind sustainable change	5
Changes in the identity of the teaching profession: A study of a teacher union in Sweden from 1990 to 2017	5
Expansive learning in a change laboratory intervention for teachers	5
Viewing the transition to innovative learning environments through the lens of the burke-litwin model for organizational performance and change	5
Adapting routines in schools when facing challenging situations: Extending previous theories on routines by considering theories on self-regulated and collectively regulated learning	5
Addressing inequity and underachievement: Intervening to improve middle leaders’problem-solving conversations	5
Pioneer teachers: How far can individual teachers achieve agency within curriculum development?	5
Innovating teaching and instruction in turbulent times: The dynamics of principals’ exploration and exploitation activities	5
A theory of action account of an across-school collaboration policy in practice	4
“A lot of states were doing it”: The development of Michigan’s Read by Grade Three Law	4
Enriching educational accountabilities through collaborative public conversations: Conceptual and methodological insights from the Learning Commission approach	4
Team emotion matters: exploring teacher collaboration dynamics over time	4
Educators learning through struggle: Political education in social justice caucuses	4
“Stuck in this wheel”: The use of design thinking for change in educational organizations	4
Teachers’ perceptions of autonomy in the tensions between a subject focus and a cross-curricular school profile: A case study of a Finnish upper secondary school	4
Teachers' perceptions of collaboration within an evolving teacher evaluation context	4
Beyond deliberation—radical reflexivity, contemplative practices and teacher change	4
Primary teachers’ early and retrospective instructional vision of mathematical inquiry	4
Changes in teachers’ professional behavior through conducting teacher research	4
Unpacking the support practices of educational advisors: Congruency, loyalty, legitimacy, and urgency	4
Systemically oriented leadership: Leading multi-school organisations in England	4
Developing organizational knowledge in schools: The role of theory and theorizing in collective capacity building	4
Shared responsibility between teachers predicts student achievement: A mixed methods study in Norwegian co-taught literacy classes	3
Data use in language schools: The case of EFL teachers’ data-driven decision making	3
“Are we making a quilt, with lots of ill-fitting cloths in here?”: Teachers’ internal conversations on curriculum making	3
From language of enemy to language of opportunity: Understanding teacher resistance to curriculum change in English language teaching and learning in Kyrgyzstan	3
Spiriting urban educational justice: The leadership of African American mothers organizing for school equity and local control	3
Teachers’ perceived opportunity to contribute to school culture transformation	3