Journal Articles
My work has appeared in top journals in the fields of comparative and international education, education policy, sociology of education, educational administration, and international development, including: 
  • Review of Educational Research
  • ​Comparative Education Review
  • Comparative Education
  • Compare
  • International Journal of Educational Development 
  • International Review of Education
  • Research in Comparative and International Education
  • Globalisation, Societies and Education
  • British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • Journal of Education Policy
  • Educational Policy
  • Education Policy Analysis Archives
  • Educational Administration Quarterly
  • Discourse
  • Development in Practice
  • The Urban Review
  • Teachers College Record

Forthcoming
Saito, Y., Edwards Jr., D.B., Sustarsic, M., & Taira, D., (accepted). “The onto-epistemic foundations of global governance and global education policies: A decolonial analysis of global citizenship education in Hawai‘i,” Comparative Education Review. 

2023
Edwards, Jr., D.B., Caravaca, A., Rappeport, A., & Sperduti, V. (2023). “World Bank influence on policy formation in education: A systematic review of the literature,” Review of Educational Research. Online ahead of print. Open access here.

Edwards Jr., D.B., Moschetti, M., & Caravaca, A. (2023). “The state, education policy and privatization in postcolonial contexts,” Cadernos de Pesquisa, 53 [In Spanish]

Okitsu, T., Edwards Jr., D.B., Mwanza, P., & Miller, S. (2023). “Low-fee private preschools as the symbol of imagined ‘modernity’?—Parental perspectives of ECCE in an urban informal settlement in Zambia,” International Journal of Educational Development. Online ahead of print. 

Edwards Jr., D.B., Okitsu, T., & Mwanza, P. (2023). “Low-fee private schools for early childhood care and education? Insights from Zambia in the context of economic globalization,” International Review of Education, 68 (6), 897-910.

2022
Le, H. & Edwards Jr., D.B. (2022). “Singapore’s educational export strategies: ‘Branding’ and ‘selling’ education in a favorable global policy marketplace,” Comparative Education. Online ahead of print. 

Caravaca, A., Edwards Jr., D.B., Rappeport, A., & Sperduti, V. (2022). “The World Bank and the implementation of education policies: Forms of influence and omissions,” Journal of Supranational Policies of Education, 15, 33-47. [In Spanish]

2021
Edwards Jr., D.B., Moschetti, M., & Caravaca, A. (2021). “Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: The reconfiguration of the State in the Dominican Republic and beyond,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42 (8), 1210-1226. 

Moschetti, M., Caravaca, A., & Edwards Jr., D.B. (2021). “The privatization of educational policy and network governance in the Dominican Republic.” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29 (128), 1-19. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Erazo, M., & Martin, P. (2021). “Islands of participation: The governance of education through ‘Integrated Systems,’” Educacao & Sociedade, 41, 1-18. Online ahead of print. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Moschetti, M. (2021). “The Sociology of Policy Change within International Organizations: Beyond Coercive and Normative Perspectives—towards Circuits of Power,” Globalisation, Societies & Education, 19 (1), 55-69. 

Chiba, M., Sustarsic, M., Perriton, S., & Edwards Jr., D. B. (2021) “Investigating effective teaching and learning for sustainable development and global citizenship: Implications from a systematic review of the literature,” International Journal of Educational Development, 81, 1-16. Online ahead of print. 

Edwards, Jr., D.B., DeMatthews, D., Spear, A., & Hartley, H. (2021). “Community participation and empowerment in marginalised contexts: Leveraging parental involvement, adult education, and community organising through social justice leadership,” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51 (8), 1190-1207.

2020
Edwards Jr., D.B., Moschetti, M. & Caravaca, A. (2020). “Globalization and privatization of education in Honduras—Or the need to reconsider the dynamics and legacy of state formation,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Online ahead of print. 

Okitsu, T., Edwards, Jr., D.B., & Mwanza, P. (2020). “Early Childhood Education and Care in an Urban Informal Settlement in Zambia: The Rise of Low-Fee Private Schools and Implications for Equity,” Journal of International Development Studies, 29 (2), 49-62. [In Japanese] 

Edwards Jr., D.B., Le, H., & Sustarsic, M. (2020). “Spatializing a global education phenomenon: Private tutoring and mobility theory in Cambodia,” Journal of Education Policy, 35 (5), 713-732. 

Edwards Jr., D.B. & Moschetti, M. (2020). “A new, old wave: Global education policies, new philanthropy, and ‘disruption’ through ‘innovation,’” NORRAG Special Issue 04: New Philanthropy and the Disruption of Global Education, 40-44. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Sustarsic, M., Chiba, M., Goo, M., McCormick, M., & Perriton, S. (2020). “Achieving and monitoring education for sustainable development and global citizenship: A systematic review of the literature,” Sustainability, 12 (1383), 1-57. 

Potterton, A., Edwards Jr., D. B., Yoon, E., & Powers, J. (2020). “Sociological contributions to school choice policy and politics around the globe: Introduction to the 2020 PEA Yearbook,” Educational Policy, 34 (1), 3-20. 

Termes, A., Edwards Jr., D. B., & Verger, A. (2020). “The development and dynamics of public-private partnership in the Philippines’ education: A counter-intuitive case of school choice, competition and privatization,” Educational Policy, 34 (1), 91-117. 

Edwards Jr., D. B, Morrison, J., & Hall, S. (2020). “The suspect statistics of best practices: A triple critique of knowledge production and mobilization in the global education policy field,” Globalsation, Societies and Education, 18 (2), 125-148.

2019
Edwards Jr., D. B. & Means, A. (2019). Globalization, privatization, and marginalization: Mapping and assessing connections and consequences in/through education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27 (123), 1-37. 

Edwards Jr., D.B., Okitsu, T., & Mwanza, P. (2019). "Low-fee private schools, the State, and globalization: A market analysis within the political sociology of education and development,” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27 (133), 1-42. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2019). “The inability of Big Data to escape the limitations of impact evaluation,” Mexican Review of Educational Research, 24 (82), 871-878 [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D.B. & Termes, A. (2019). “Bogotá’s Concession Schools: The limits of the economic efficiency of charter schools,” Colombian Review of Education, 76, 91-116. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D.B. (2019). “Shifting the perspective on community-based management of education: From systems theory to social capital and community empowerment,” International Journal of Educational Development, 64, 17-26.

2018
Edwards Jr., D.B. & Higa, S. (2018). “The global education policy of school-based management in conflict-affected contexts: Current reach, prominent rationales, future research,” Policy Futures in Education, 16 (3), 306-320. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., & Hall, S. (2018). “Neglected issues: How charters schools manage teachers and acquire resources,” Teachers College Record, 120 (10), 1-40. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Okitsu, T., da Costa, R., & Kitamura, Y. (2018). “Organizational legitimacy in the global education policy field: Learning from UNESCO and the Global Monitoring Report,” Comparative Education Review, 61 (1), 31-63. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Brehm, W., & Storen, I. (2018). “The national politics of educational advocacy in the context of global governance: International funding and support for civil society engagement in Cambodia,” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 48 (2), 171-188.

2017
Edwards Jr., D.B. & Pages, M. (2017). “Hidden history and unknown outcomes: Connections among EDUCO, community empowerment, and civil war in El Salvador,” Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 10 (July-December), 13-58. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Storen, I. (2017). “Influence over time: Community-driven development and the changing nature of World Bank influence in Indonesia,” International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 16 (3), 17-31. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Klees, S., & Wildish, J. (2017). “Dynamics of low-fee private schools in Kenya: Governmental legitimation, schools-community dependence, and resource uncertainty,” Teachers College Record, 119 (7), 1-42. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., (2017). “The global education policy of school-based management in conflict-affected contexts: A cautionary tale,” Comparative Education: Bulletin of the Japan Comparative Education Society, 55 (2), 72-86. 

Rambla, X., Verger, A., Edwards Jr., D. B., Bonal, X., & Fontdevila, C. (2017). “Meeting development goals: Evidence from the Civil Society Education Fund,” Development in Practice, 27 (6), 851-864. 

Okitsu, T. & Edwards Jr., D.B., (2017). “Can the rural poor hold schools and teachers to account? Policy promise and reality of community school management in rural Zambia,” International Journal of Educational Development, 56, 28-41, 2017. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Okitsu, T., da Costa, R., & Kitamura, Y. (2017). “Regaining legitimacy in the context of global governance? UNESCO, Education for All coordination and the Global Monitoring Report,” International Review of Education, 63 (3), 403-416. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Hall, S. (2017). “Charter school strategies for teacher management and resource acquisition,” Cadernos de Pesquisa [Research Notebook], 47 (164), 442-468. [In Portuguese and English] 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2017). “Policy formation in the context of global governance: Rational, organizational, and political perspectives on policymaking in El Salvador,” International Journal of Educational Development, 52, 81-96. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., DeMatthews, D., & Hartley, H. (2017). “Public-private partnerships, accountability, and competition: Theory versus reality in Concession Schools in Bogotá, Colombia,” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25 (10), 1-32.

2016
DeMatthews, D., Edwards Jr., D. B., & Rincones, R. (2016). “Social justice leadership and community engagement: A successful case from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,” Educational Administration Quarterly, 52 (5), 711-753. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Loucel, C. (2016). “The EDUCO Program, impact evaluations, and the political economy of global education reform,” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24 (49), 1-50.

2015
Edwards Jr., D. B., & Klees, S. (2015). “Unpacking participation in development and education governance: A framework of perspectives and practices,” Prospects, 45 (4), 483-499. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2015). “Rising from the ashes: How the global education policy of community-based management was born from El Salvador’s civil war,” Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13 (3), 411-432. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Victoria, J.A., & Martin, P. (2015). “The geometry of policy implementation: Lessons from the political economy of three education reforms in El Salvador during 1990-2005,” International Journal of Educational Development, 44, 28-41. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Brehm, W. (2015). “The emergence of Cambodian civil society within global educational governance: A morphogenetic approach to agency and structure,” Journal of Education Policy, 30 (2), 275-293. 

Klees, S. & Edwards Jr., D. B. (2015). “The privatization of education: Lessons from the United States and Elsewhere,” Brazilian Review of Education, 20 (60), 11-30. [In Portuguese]

2014
Verger, A., Edwards Jr., D. B., & Kosar-Altinyelken, H. (2014). “Learning from all? The World Bank, aid agencies and the construction of hegemony in education for development,” Comparative Education, 50 (4), 1-19. 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Zimmerman, T., Chhinh, S., Williams, J., & Kitamura, Y. (2014). “Student retention and transition from primary to lower secondary school in Cambodia: Narrative insights into complex systems,” Prospects, 44 (3), 367-380. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2014). “How to analyze the influence of international actors and ideas in the formation of education policy?,” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22 (12), 1-34. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B., & DeMatthews, D. (2014). “Historical trends in educational decentralization in the United States and developing countries: A periodization and comparison in the post-WWII context,” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22 (40), 1-36. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Klees, S. (2014). “Participation in international development and education governance: Three perspectives and three cases from El Salvador,” Latin American Review of Comparative Education, 5, 107-121. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Victoria, J.A., & Martin, P. (2014). “International trends, structural developments, national preferences and the implementation of education policies: Findings from El Salvador during 1990-2005,” Journal of Supranational Policies of Education, 2, 111-140. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2014). “The impact of international institutions on education policymaking in small countries: The case of El Salvador,” Spanish Review of Comparative Education, 24, 175-197. [In Spanish] 

Edwards Jr., D. B., Martin, P., & Victoria, J. (2014). “International influence and national initiative in the formulation of education policies: Three case studies from El Salvador,” Voices and Silences: Latin American Review of Education, 5 (1), 3-22. [In Spanish] 

​Edwards Jr., D. B. (2014). “The World Bank’s concept of participation in international development and the governance of education: An analysis of its framework and results,” Latin American Review of Education Studies, 44 (1), 13-46. [In Spanish]

2013
Edwards Jr., D. B. (2013). “International processes of education policy formation: An analytic framework and the case of Plan 2021 in El Salvador,” Comparative Education Review, 57 (1), 22-53.

2012
Edwards Jr. D. B. (2012). “Small states and big institutions: USAID and education policy formation in El Salvador,” Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15 (1), 82-98. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2012). “Researching international processes of education policy formation: Conceptual and methodological issues,” Research in Comparative and International Education, 7 (2): 127-145. 

Edwards Jr. D. B. (2012). “Education and social movement oriented citizenship in Colombia: The effects of curriculum, pedagogy, and extra-curricular activities on student orientation,” Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 7 (2), 117-128.

2010
Edwards Jr., D. B. (2010). “A comparison of local empowerment in education: Porto Alegre, Brazil and Chicago, USA,” Research in Comparative and International Education, 5 (2), 176-184. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2010). “Trends in governance and decision-making: A democratic analysis with attention to application in education,” Policy Futures in Education, 8 (1), 111-125. 

Edwards Jr., D. B. (2010). “Critical pedagogy and democratic education: Possibilities for cross-pollination,” The Urban Review, 42 (3), 221-242.