OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Educational Research Journal 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic Acceleration: Covid-19 and the emergency digitalization of European education	64
From real to virtual mobility: Erasmus students’ transition to online learning amid the COVID-19 crisis	33
The big acceleration in digital education in Italy: The COVID-19 pandemic and the blended-school form	28
Multilingualism: A threat to public education or a resource in public education? – European histories and realities	27
Editorial: Education in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic	24
Home schooling through online teaching in the era of COVID-19: Exploring the role of home-related factors that deepen educational inequalities across European societies	24
School lockdown? Comparative analyses of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries	23
Troubled schools in troubled times: How COVID-19 affects educational inequalities and what measures can be taken	21
COVID-19 and its effects: On the risk of social inequality through digitalization and the loss of trust in three European education systems	20
New shadow professionals and infrastructures around the datafied school: Topological thinking as an analytical device	18
Digital teaching as the new normal? Swedish upper secondary teachers’ experiences of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis	17
Is small beautiful? A scoping review of 21st-century research on small rural schools in Europe	17
The changing value of higher education in England and Portugal: Massification, marketization and public good	16
Joy of distance learning? How student self-efficacy and emotions relate to social support and school environment	16
Topologies of desire: Fantasies and their symptoms in educational policy futures	15
Renegotiating the public good: Responding to the first wave of COVID-19 in England, Germany and Italy	14
Making work private: Autonomy, intensification and accountability	14
Governing education in times of crisis: State interventions and school accountabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Education for a Christian nation: Religion and nationalism in the Hungarian education policy discourse	13
Museum education and sustainable development: A public pedagogy	13
Introduction―Space-and time-making in education: Towards a topological lens	12
Citizenship-as-competence, what else? Why European citizenship education policy threatens to fall short of its aims	12
The vocational route to higher education in Finland: Students’ backgrounds, choices and study experiences	12
Equity lost: Sweden and Finland in the struggle for PISA scores	12
Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times	12

The marketisation of education and the democratic deficit	11
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context	10
Managing expectations by projecting the future school: Observing the Nordic future school reports via temporal topologies	10
Leading schools during the COVID-19 school closures in Estonia and Finland	10
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU	10
The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) from the perspective of Irish teacher educators	9
Building trust, resilient regions, and educational narratives: Municipalities dealing with COVID-19 in border regions of Portugal	9
Inclusion/exclusion: Educational closure and social differentiation in world society	9
Lecture capture, social topology, and the spatial and temporal arrangements of UK universities	9
Barriers to recognition for migrant teachers in Ireland	9
Transcending borders in higher education: Internationalisation policies in Sweden	8
Parents for whom school ‘is not that big a deal’. Parental support in home schooling during lockdown in France	8
Externalisation and structural coupling: Applications in comparative policy studies in education	8
Options for developing European strategies on citizenship education	8
Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice	8
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools: Different regulatory models with concurrent equity implications	8
Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries	8
Curriculum policy and instructional planning: Teachers’ autonomy across various school contexts	8
Teachers in Transition. A Biographical Perspective on Transnational Professionalisation of Internationally Educated Teachers in Germany	8
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe	8
Young sustainability activists as public educators: An aesthetic approach	8
Identifying space for mainstreaming multilingual pedagogies in European initial teacher education policies	7
Education policy governance and the power of ideas in constructing the new European Education Area	7
Navigating European education in times of crisis? An analysis of socio-technological architectures and user interfaces of online learning initiatives	7
The politics of educational transitions: Evidence from Catalonia	7
School and democratic hope: The school as a space for civic literacy	7
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond	6
From self-evident norms to contingent couplings: A systems-theoretical analysis of changes in the relationship between schools and the function systems in Denmark	6
How post-Bologna policies construct the purposes of higher education and students’ transitions into Masters programmes	6
‘First and foremost, we are teachers, not refugees’: Requalification measures for internationally trained teachers affected by forced migration	6
Pedagogical publics: Creating sustainable educational environments in times of climate change	6
Citizenship-as-knowledge: How perspectives from Bildung-centred Didaktik can contribute to European Citizenship Education beyond competence	6
Diversity in the teachers’ lounge in Germany – casting doubt on the statistical category of ‘migration background’	6
The complexity of professional integration: An investigation of newly arrived teachers’ initial process of establishing themselves as teachers in Sweden	6
UK membership(s) in the European Higher Education Area post-2020: A ‘Europeanisation’ agenda	6
Comparing national identity discourses in history, geography and civic education curricula: The case of France and Ireland	6
Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education	5
Teachers with so-called migration background and the question of recognition: Experiences of fragility and hidden pedagogical potentials	5
Has Peak PISA passed? An investigation of interest in International Large-Scale Assessments across countries and over time	5
Flexible and innovative learning spaces: An exploration of parental perspectives on change, consultation and participation	5
“We have never been public:” Continuity and change in the policy production of “the public” in education in England	4
Bridging the gap between policy and practice: Unpacking the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education	4
The risks of standardised school building design: Beyond aligning the parts of a learning environment	4
Are adult learners in Europe happier than non-learners? Statistical evidence from the European Social Survey	4
‘What is this ISIS all about?’ Addressing violent extremism with students: Finnish educators’ perspectives	4
A search for the determinants of students’ educational expectations for higher education in four European cities: The role of school SES composition and student engagement	4
Educational achievement disparities between second-generation and non-immigrant students: Do school characteristics account for tracking effects?	4
Educators’ interpretations of children’s belonging across borders: Thinking and talking with an image	4
The historic importance of degree structure: A comparison of bachelor to master transitions in Norway and Denmark	4
A “three-legged model”: (De)constructing school autonomy, accountability, and innovation in the Italian National Evaluation System	4

Pedagogic rights, public education and democracy	4
Innovation and risk in an innovative learning environment: A Private Public Partnership in Australia	4
Relations and locations: New topological spatio-temporalities in education	3
ChatGPT and the entangled evolution of society, education, and technology: A systems theory perspective	3
The European Union’s governance of teachers and the evolution of a bridging issue field since the mid-2000s	3
Managing critical transitions: Career support to young people risking ineligibility for upper secondary education	3
Building the technological European Community through education: European mobility and training programmes in the 1980s	3
Education: Forming the Life Course	3
Tracing the historical construction of a vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning policy space in the European Union from 1951 to present	3
The worry conversation: A loosening technology	3
Supportive assessment strategies as curriculum events in a performance-oriented classroom context	3
Framing policy problems and solutions in education policymaking: Pre-vocational education in Norwegian lower secondary school	3
Learning lessons from the collaborative design of guidance for new build schools	3
‘It is more than just education. It’s also a peace policy’: (Re)imagining the mission of the European Higher Education Area in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of	3
Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges	3
Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic	3
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process	3
Learning outcomes: The long goodbye: Vocational qualifications in the 21st century	3
The power of policy translators: New university governing bodies in Hungary and Poland	3
Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy	3
Knowledge for sale: The construction of desired knowledge and identities in edu-marketing	2
Education in world society: A matter of form	2
The value of doctoral education in the intersection of the multiple purposes of higher education	2
Problematising ‘education’ in the Modernisation Agenda for Higher Education: The onset of language(s) of education	2
Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries	2
Research discourse in the programme for international student assessment: A critical perspective	2
Questioning the rhetoric: A critical analysis of intergovernmental organisations’ entrepreneurship education policy	2
Educating to belong: Policy and practice of mother-tongue instruction for migrant students in the Danish welfare state	2
Business as the new doxa in education? An analysis of edu-business events in Finland	2
Learning in a time of cholera: Imagining a future for public education	2
Historical perspectives and contemporary challenges to education (Bildung) and citizenry in the modern nation state: Comparative perspectives on Germany and the USA	2
Editorial special issue ‘Public Pedagogy and Sustainability Challenges’	2
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway	2
Knowledge or competencies? A controversial question in contemporary curriculum debates	2
Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education	2
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings	2
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy	2
The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney	2
The meanings of ‘child participation’ in international and European policies on children(’s rights): A content analysis	2
Comparative higher education research in times of globalisation of higher education: Theoretical and methodological insights	2
The policy idea of ‘the teacher assistant’: Construction and legitimation through a discursive institutionalist lens	2
Epistemic work in Portuguese parliamentary education debates: Externalisation to world situations as a source of epistemic capital	2
What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy, and the UK	2
Can participation in learning abroad mobility support pro-European Union attitudes among youth?	2
Vocational education and training systems in Europe: A cluster analysis	2
Diversification of the teaching profession in Europe and beyond: Ambivalences of recognition in the context of (forced) migration	2
Klaus Mollenhauer: Emancipation, Bildung and six questions for education	2
Academic housework in pandemic times: COVID-19 effects on the gendered distribution of academic work in Portugal	2