Best Article — HESIG

Best Article Winners

2024

Winner: Shahjahan, R. A., Estera, A. L., Surla, K. L., Edwards, K. T. (2024). "Decolonizing" Curriculum and Pedagogy: A Comparative Review Across Disciplines and Global Higher Education Contexts. Review of Educational Research, 92(1), 73–113. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543211042423

Honorable Mention: Oleksiyenko, A., Mendoza, P., Riaño, F. E. C., Dwivedi, O. P., Kabir, A. H., Kuzhabekova, A., Charles, M., Ros, V., & Shchepetylnykova, I. (2023). Global crisis management and higher education: Agency and coupling in the context of wicked COVID‐19 problems. Higher Education Quarterly, 77(2), 356–374. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12406

2023

Winner: Marginson, S. & Yang, L. (2022). Individual and collective outcomes of higher education: A comparison of Anglo-American and Chinese approaches. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1932436

Honorable Mention: Hailu, M. F., Molla, T., & Johnson, A.T. (2021). Researching experiences of African refugee youth in high-income countries: Reflections on conceptual challenges and possibilities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, (90), 168-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.004

2022

Winner: Brooks, R., & Abrahams, J. (2021). “European Higher Education Students: Contested Constructions. Sociological Research Online.” 26(4), 810–832. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420973042

Honorable Mention: Lee, J., Haupt, J. (2020). “Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations.” Higher education, 80, 57–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00464-7

2021

Winner: Bamberger, A., Morris, P. & Yemini, M. (2019). “Neoliberalism, internationalisation and higher education: connections, contradictions and alternatives.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, (40)2, 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1569879

Honorable Mention: Campbell, A. C., & Mawer, M. (2019). “Clarifying Mixed Messages: International Scholarship Programmes in the Sustainable Development Agenda.” Higher Education Policy, 32, 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-017-0077-1

2020

Winner: Shaw, Marta A. 2019. “Public accountability versus academic independence: tensions of public higher education governance in Poland.” Studies in Higher Education 44(12): 2235-2248.

Honorable Mention: Mwangi, C. A. G., Latafat, S., Hammond, S., Kommers, S., Thoma, H. S., Berger, J., & Blanco-Ramirez, G. (2018). “Criticality in international higher education research: A critical discourse analysis of higher education journals”. Higher Education, 76(6), 1091-1107.

Winner: Antigoni Papadimitriou, Daniel C. Levy, Bjørn Stensaker, and Sanja Kanazir. 2017. “Public regulatory arrangements for private higher education in the Western Balkans.” European Educational Research Journal 16 (6): 800-819.

Honorable Mention: Li, Jun. 2017. “Ideologies, Strategies and Higher Education Development: A Comparison of China’s University Partnerships with the Soviet Union and Africa over Space and Time.” Comparative Education 53 (2): 245-264.

2019

2018

Shahjahan, Riyad A., and Clara Morgan. 2016. "Global Competition, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge in Higher Education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37: 92-109. DOI 10.1080/01425692.2015.1095635

2017

Blanco-Ramırez, Gerardo. 2015. "International Accreditation as Global Position Taking: An Empirical Exploration of U.S. Accreditation in Mexico." Higher Education, 69: 361–374. DOI 10.1007/s10734-014-9780-7

2016

Oleksiyenko, Anatoly. 2014. “On the Shoulders of Giants? Global Science, Resource Asymmetries, and Repositioning of Research Universities in China and Russia.” Comparative Education Review 58 (3): 482-508.

2015

Yan, Fengqiao. 2013. “The Same Term but Different Connotations: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Studying the Academic Profession in China and Other Asian Countries.” Frontiers of Education in China 8 (2): 198-213.

2014

Powell, Justin J., Nadine Bernhard, and Lukas Graf. 2012. “The Emergent European Model in Skill Formation: Comparing Higher Education and Vocational Training in the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes.” Sociology of Education 85 (3): 240-258.

Yang, Rui. 2012. “Internationalization, Regionalization, and Soft Power: China’s Relations with ASEAN Member Countries in Higher Education.” Frontiers of Education in China 7 (4): 486-507.

2013

Marginson, Simon. 2011. “Higher Education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian Model.” Higher Education 61 (5): 587-611.

2012

1st Place Award Recipient: Vandeyar, Saloshna. 2010. “Shifting Selves: Constructing and Negotiating Academic Identities.” South African Journal of Higher Education 24 (6): 914-934.

2nd Place Award Recipients: Kamens, David H., and Connie L. McNeely. 2009. “Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and National Assessment.” Comparative Education Review 54 (1): 5-26.

2011

Mayo, Peter. 2009. “Competitiveness, Diversification and the International Higher Education Cash Flow: The EU’s Higher Education Discourse Amidst the Challenges of Globalization.” International Studies in Sociology of Education 19 (2): 87-103.

2010

Mok, Ka Ho. 2008. “The Growing Importance of Privateness in Education: Challenges for Higher Education Governance in China.” Compare 39 (1): 35-49.