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Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Rights, rules and remedies: interrogating the policy discourse of school exclusion in Wales	55
From national exceptionalism to national imperialism: changing motives of comparative education	33
Cultural narratives and educational goals: a discourse analysis of university presidents’ opening convocation speeches in the U.S. and China	19
Cosmopolitan nationalism: where is the cosmopolitanism?	16
The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education	13
Inscribing uncertainty. Visualizing edu-automation through spatializing techniques	11
Inheritance, disobedience and speculation in pedagogic practice	10
Family stories as resources for a decolonial culturally responsive pedagogy	9
Environmentality in (food) sustainability education: an analysis of a pedagogic intervention in Italy	8
Forms of education: rethinking educational experience against and outside the humanist legacy	8
Reimagining national identity in neoliberal education: Truyện Kiều, femininity and discourse in Vietnamese textbooks	8
From confident subject to humble citizen: reimagining citizenship education in contemporary China	8
Do I have to wear mud pants? Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool	8
Just because you are staying does not mean you are ‘stuck’: conceptualisations of academic mobility for precarious academics	8
Sustainability as Wild Policy: Mobile SDG Interventions and Land-informed Policy in Education	7
Trans-forming the discipline: the subjugation of psychologists working in adult gender clinics across the UK	7
Hyper-performativity and early career teachers: interrogating teacher subjectivities in neoliberal educational assemblages	7
Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion	6
Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong	6
Set in motion by data: Human and data intra-actions in educational governance	6
Education authorities setting the boundaries of legitimate discourse through responses to critique of test-based accountability in Norway	6
Differentiated meanings of education in the reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia	6
Education modernization in rural China: exploring temporality in education policy	6
Traces of cosmopolitan nationalism in educative global action: exploring two international baccalaureate international school approaches to global agency	6
A ‘fish in water’: the (re)production of a student’s class habitus through the practice of student voice	5

International assessments as the comparative desires and the distributions of differences: infrastructures and coloniality	5
Access versus integration: the benevolent undermining of an Indian desegregation policy	5
Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994–2020: a corpus-assisted analysis	5
Collateral damage in education: implications for the time of COVID-19	5
Teaching in the afterward: undoing order-words and affirming transversal alternatives	5
Using Chinese and First Nations philosophies about time and history to reimagine transcultural doctoral education	4
Geographies of wealth: the materiality of an elite school in Switzerland	4
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device	4
The rise of the pro-sessional: precarious employees taking on complex and faculty-critical roles	4
Reflexive empathy as social relation: the case for contextualised professional learning	4
Deconstructing innercirclism: a critical exploration of multimodal discourse in an English as a foreign language textbook	4
Ellie’s story: counter-conduct in the primary classroom	4
Listen with your heart: auto-ethnographic reflection on the Wandiny creative gathering	4
Mapping categories of philanthropy in Australian public schooling	4
Correction	4
Losing lockers: the disappearance of a social space in US middle schools and high schools	4
‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline and governmentality	4
Obituaries for Dr Ted D'Urso	4
A critical discourse study of cultural and national identity (re)construction in Taiwanese high school EFL textbooks	3
Publishers' Note	3
Viral Zoom Karen: attending to ‘the scratch’ with Mapping the Affective Turn in Education	3
The trans student as callejer@ or ‘streetwise theorist’: notes on epistemic justice and a call for trans*intramural reading	3
Players chatter and dice clatter: exploring sonic power relations in posthuman game-based learning ecologies	3
The hero’s journey: understanding the experiences and motivations of international secondary students	3
Governing after COVID-19: the discourse of education recovery policy in the UK	3
Sharing the world without losing oneself: education in a pluralistic universe	3
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea	3
Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling	3
The generation of the utopia: Itinerant curriculum theory towards a ‘futurable future’	3
From recalcitrance to rapprochement: tinkering with a working-class academic bricolage of ‘critical empathy’	3
Marketizing education: a microanalytic account	3
Falling into the gap: the coloniality of achievement gap discourses and their responses	2
Academic identity formation: the influence of space	2
Disenchantment revisited: school life in Northwest China	2
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world: a collaborative and sensory methodology of hope	2
Introduction: critiquing the onto-epistemic coloniality of modernity in/beyond education	2
Markets, metrics, and modernisation: Higher Education strategy makers’ conceptualisations of digital empowerment	2
The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education	2
Theories of global warming and their implications for education: reflections on Andreas Malm’s ‘The progress of this storm’	2
Exploring the limits of 21st century educational change discourses	2
The accumulation economy of private schools: extraction, mystification and depletion	2
‘ Death by a thousand cuts ’: the violence of academia revealed in women’s metaphors	2
Towards Critical Secular Studies in Education: addressing secular education formations and their intersecting inequalities	2
Teaching as bodily enactment: relational formations of touch and movement	2
Future uncertainty and the production of anticipatory policy knowledge: the case of the Israeli future-oriented pedagogy project	2
Refugee-background students and the institutional responsibility of schools: a narrative discourse analysis of US education news media	2
School knowledge and teacher authority – politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention	2
Connecting with land: knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico	1
Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature	1
Relaxed and flexible – what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools?	1

Counter-storytelling, metaphors, and rhetorical questioning: discursive strategies of advocacy toward racial equity in school board meetings	1
‘Jihad literacy’: the legacy of US-sponsored textbooks for Afghan children	1
The politics of data visualizations. Introduction to special issue	1
Thinking teacher education through military imaginaries: A diffractive and decolonising reading	1
Theorizing the affective logic of victimhood in public debates: implications for everyday education practices	1
Trans epistemicide and the implications for education	1
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations	1
Chineseness in Southeast Asian higher education	1
Unlearning emotional imperialism in education: political, theoretical and pedagogical implications	1
Preschool zombies: embodied, socio-(re)enacted, productive spatial literacies	1
Figures fighting figures – unpacking state authority's mis/trust in PISA statistics	1
Unsettling the reason of time: Indigenist epistemology and the child in the Australian curriculum	1
International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces	1
Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’: some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future	1
Narrative, zombie academic leadership, and the contemporary university	1
Reparations: theorising just futures of education	1
The educational dynamics of populism: schooling, teacher expertise and popular claims to knowledge	1
Towards a textural sociological approach to single mothers’ voices: a study of Hong Kong mothers	1
The discourses of self and identity: a Levinasian approach to rethinking discourse	1
Reading climate: subject English beyond the colonial	1
The unearned privilege of charity law: how the law maintains elite education	1
(Long pause): what does silence say about boys’ reflexivity?	1
Turning to character: teachers’ narratives of youth futurity and educational responsibility	1
A dangerous turn: the confluence of safety and citizenship discourses in educational scholarship	1
Mirror, mirror on the wall? Is there anythingfairin here at all? Examining the current relationship of school and society	1
Radical care as epistemic justice: a queer and trans refusal of neoliberalism, whiteness and the settler-colonial gaze	1
Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas	1
Affective enactments of class: attuning to events, practice, capacity	1
Cultural representation in primary ELT textbooks: an approach of multimodal discourse analysis	1
The discursive representation of the International Baccalaureate in the global press: a computer-assisted discourse analysis	1
On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education	1
Queering the environmental provocation	1
Discourse thanks reviewers, 2022	1
The affective intensities of teacher data relations: problematising data visualisation surfaces	1
Stories of the canon (stories of the self): towards an intra-active decolonisation of higher education	1
Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process	1