| UNESCO, the Faure report, the Delors report, and the political utopia of lifelong learning M Elfert European Journal of Education 50 (1), 88-100, 2015 | 211 | 2015 |
| Lifelong learning in Sustainable Development Goal 4: What does it mean for UNESCO’s rights-based approach to adult learning and education? M Elfert International Review of Education 65 (4), 537-556, 2019 | 169 | 2019 |
| UNESCO’s utopia of lifelong learning: An intellectual history M Elfert Routledge, 2017 | 137 | 2017 |
| Education in the age of COVID-19: Understanding the consequences P Stanistreet, M Elfert, D Atchoarena International Review of Education 66, 627-633, 2020 | 115 | 2020 |
| Adult education research. Exploring an increasingly fragmented map K Rubenson, M Elfert European journal for research on the education and learning of adults 6 (2 …, 2015 | 63 | 2015 |
| Six decades of educational multilateralism in a globalising world: The history of the UNESCO Institute in Hamburg M Elfert International Review of Education 59, 263-287, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| The OECD, American power and the rise of the “economics of education” in the 1960s M Elfert The OECD’s historical rise in education: The formation of a global governing …, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Humanism and democracy in comparative education M Elfert Comparative Education 59 (3), 398-415, 2023 | 30 | 2023 |
| Gemeinsam in der Sprache baden: Family Literacy: Internationale Konzepte zur familienorientierten Schriftsprachförderung. Hauptbd. M Elfert, G Rabkin Ernst Klett Sprachen, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| The power struggle over education in developing countries: The case of the UNESCO-World Bank Co-operative program, 1964-1989 M Elfert International Journal of Educational Development 81, 102336, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Global Governance of Education M Elfert, C Ydesen Springer, NY, 2023 | 26 | 2023 |
| Learning to live together: Revisiting the humanism of the Delors Report M Elfert Education Research and Foresight Working Papers Series 12, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| The influence of the United States on the rise of global governance in education: The OEEC and UNESCO in the post-second World War period M Elfert, C Ydesen Organizing the World: International Organization and the Emergence of …, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| The utopia of lifelong learning: an intellectual history of UNESCO's humanistic approach to education, 1945-2015. M Elfert University of British Columbia, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| The rise and fall of adult literacy. Policy Lessons from Canada M Elfert, J Walker European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 11 (1 …, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Examining the “weak field” of adult education K Rubenson, M Elfert Mapping out the research field of adult education and learning, 15-31, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| The long shadow between the vision and the reality: A review of the UNESCO report “Reimagining our futures together: A New social contract for education” M Elfert, P Morris Quaderni di pedagogia della scuola 2, 37-44, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| Revisiting the Faure report and the Delors report: Why was UNESCO’s utopian vision of lifelong learning an “unfailure”? M Elfert Power and Possibility, 17-25, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| Revisiting the Faure report (1972) and the Delors Report (1996). Why was UNESCO’s utopian vision of lifelong learning an “unfailure” M Elfert ESREA Triennial Conference Maynooth, Ireland, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Changing configurations of adult education research: Exploring a fragmented map K Rubenson, M Elfert Changing configurations of adult education in transitional times, 25-38, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
