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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
7676
World Ranking
6638
National Ranking
1063

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Education
  • Social science
  • Capitalism

His main research concerns Globalization, Economic growth, Education policy, Cohesion and Lifelong learning. His studies in Globalization integrate themes in fields like Development economics, Nation state and East Asia. His Education policy study typically links adjacent topics like Comparative education.

His study in Comparative education is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Political economy, Social capital and Public administration. His Public administration study combines topics in areas such as National education, State, Statism and English education. His work carried out in the field of Lifelong learning brings together such families of science as Employability, Prosperity, Public debate and Economic globalization.

His most cited work include:

  • Education, Globalization and the Nation State (331 citations)
  • High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation (319 citations)
  • Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA (309 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Andy Green spends much of his time researching Economic growth, Cohesion, Pedagogy, Globalization and Inequality. His studies examine the connections between Economic growth and genetics, as well as such issues in State, with regards to National identity and Educational development. His work deals with themes such as Development economics, Nation state, Education policy and Political economy, which intersect with Globalization.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Developmental state and East Asia in addition to Development economics. His study looks at the relationship between Inequality and topics such as Demographic economics, which overlap with Numeracy and Literacy. His Social science research is multidisciplinary, relying on both National education, Comparative education and State formation.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Economic growth (20.13%)
  • Cohesion (16.35%)
  • Pedagogy (13.84%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Labour economics (5.03%)
  • Inequality (10.69%)
  • Economic growth (20.13%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Andy Green mainly focuses on Labour economics, Inequality, Economic growth, Census and Numeracy. His Inequality research includes themes of Training, Secondary level, Development economics and Difference in differences. Many of his research projects under Economic growth are closely connected to Power with Power, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.

Andy Green has included themes like Descriptive statistics, Trend analysis and East Asia in his Comparative education study. His Numeracy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Vocational education and Demographic economics. His studies deal with areas such as Wage, Higher education, Life course approach and Welfare as well as Demographic economics.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: a cross-national analysis (17 citations)
  • Cross-Country Variation in Adult Skills Inequality. Why are skill levels and opportunities so unequal in anglophone countries? (17 citations)
  • Handbook of Global Education Policy (13 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Education
  • Social science
  • Capitalism

His primary areas of study are Economic growth, Demographic economics, Inequality, Numeracy and Comparative education. His Economic growth study frequently links to other fields, such as Panel data. His Demographic economics study incorporates themes from Life course approach, Welfare and East Asia.

His Inequality study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Longitudinal study, Citizenship education, Young adult, Gender studies and Civic engagement. As a part of the same scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Numeracy, focusing on Vocational education and, on occasion, Mathematics education, Life skills, Skills management and Curriculum. His study in Comparative education is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Descriptive statistics and Trend analysis.

Best Publications

  • Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA

    Andy Green

  • Education, Equality and Social Cohesion : A Comparative Analysis

    Andy Green;John Preston;Jan Germen Janmaat

  • Education, Globalization and the Nation State

    Andy Green

  • High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

    Phillip Brown;Andy Green;Hugh Lauder

  • Education and globalization in Europe and East Asia: convergent and divergent trends

    Andy Green

  • Convergence and divergence in European education and training systems

    Andy Green;Tom Leney;Alison Wolf

  • Postmodernism and State Education

    Andy Green

  • The Many Faces of Lifelong Learning: Recent Education Policy Trends in Europe

    Andy Green

  • Education, Equality and Social Cohesion

    Andy Green;John Preston;Jan Germen Janmaat

  • Education and State Formation

    Andy Green

  • Successful Globalisation, Education and Sustainable Development

    Angela W. Little;Andy Green

  • Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalization

    Andy Green;Jan Germen Janmaat

  • Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A distributional approach

    Andy Green;John Preston;Ricardo Sabates

  • Learning, Continuity and Change in Adult Life [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 3]

    Tom Schuller;Angela Brassett-Grundy;Andy Green;Cathie Hammond

  • Handbook of Global Education Policy

    K Mundy;A Green;B Lingard;A Verger

  • Core Skills, Key Skills and General Culture: In Search of the Common Foundation in Vocational Education

    Andy Green

  • Models of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Society

    Andy Green

  • Education and Social Cohesion: Recentering the Debate

    Andy Green;John Preston

  • Regimes of social cohesion

    Andy Green;Germ Janmaat;Christine Han

  • Education, Globalisation and the Nation State

    Andy Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Benjamin P. Chapman
Benjamin P. Chapman University of Rochester Medical Center
John Bynner
John Bynner University College London
Phillip Brown
Phillip Brown Cardiff University
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Bob Lingard
Bob Lingard Australian Catholic University
Barrie Gunter
Barrie Gunter University of Leicester
Miranda Wolpert
Miranda Wolpert University College London
Jessica Deighton
Jessica Deighton University College London
Lorna Unwin
Lorna Unwin University College London

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