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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Inscribing uncertainty. Visualizing edu-automation through spatializing techniques	50
Rights, rules and remedies: interrogating the policy discourse of school exclusion in Wales	21
Cosmopolitan nationalism: where is the cosmopolitanism?	15
The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education	14
International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs): what have they done for education?	12
Who gets heard? Discursive formation of teacher subjectivity in the AI era	11
Cultural narratives and educational goals: a discourse analysis of university presidents’ opening convocation speeches in the U.S. and China	11
Environmentality in (food) sustainability education: an analysis of a pedagogic intervention in Italy	10
“Do I have to wear mud pants?”: Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool	9
Reimagining national identity in neoliberal education: Truyện Kiều, femininity and discourse in Vietnamese textbooks	9
Family stories as resources for a decolonial culturally responsive pedagogy	9
Just because you are staying does not mean you are ‘stuck’: conceptualisations of academic mobility for precarious academics	9
Traces of cosmopolitan nationalism in educative global action: exploring two international baccalaureate international school approaches to global agency	8
From confident subject to humble citizen: reimagining citizenship education in contemporary China	8
Trans-forming the discipline: the subjugation of psychologists working in adult gender clinics across the UK	8
Sustainability as Wild Policy: Mobile SDG Interventions and Land-informed Policy in Education	8
Thinking and creating space with children: a Terrestrial perspective	8
Education modernization in rural China: exploring temporality in education policy	7
Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong	7
Education authorities setting the boundaries of legitimate discourse through responses to critique of test-based accountability in Norway	7
Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion	5
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device	5
Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994–2020: a corpus-assisted analysis	5
A ‘fish in water’: the (re)production of a student’s class habitus through the practice of student voice	5
Differentiated meanings of education in the reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia	5

‘Moment of Panic': a qualitative diary study on student–faculty partnerships	5
International assessments as the comparative desires and the distributions of differences: infrastructures and coloniality	5
Inclusive rhetoric, exclusive reality. A critical discourse analysis on government responses to the Australian disability royal commission recommendations	5
The rise of the pro-sessional: precarious employees taking on complex and faculty-critical roles	4
The Quadruple Movement: market rationalities and the formation of educational subjects	4
Reflexive empathy as social relation: the case for contextualised professional learning	4
Can the student speak? Voicing identities and experience in UK higher education	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	4
Listen with your heart: auto-ethnographic reflection on the Wandiny creative gathering	4
Conceptualising Confucian queer subjectivation: how Chinese LGBTQ teachers make sense of and navigate their sexuality in schools	4
Mapping categories of philanthropy in Australian public schooling	4
Players chatter and dice clatter: exploring sonic power relations in posthuman game-based learning ecologies	4
Towards pedagogies of affective dissonance for intergenerational listening and un/learning	3
Making and breaking the Australian family: family, diversity, and parent–school engagement policy	3
Losing lockers: the disappearance of a social space in US middle schools and high schools	3
Geographies of wealth: the materiality of an elite school in Switzerland	3
The generation of the utopia: Itinerant curriculum theory towards a ‘futurable future’	3
Presumed foreign, homophobic, transphobic and oppressed: Muslim women teacher candidates’ micro-level experiences in Canadian teacher education	3
Correction	3
Ellie’s story: counter-conduct in the primary classroom	3
Publishers' Note	3
Governing after COVID-19: the discourse of education recovery policy in the UK	3
Marketizing education: a microanalytic account	3
What’s love got to do with it? Thinking touch in education with theories of love	3
Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling	3
School knowledge and teacher authority – politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention	2
Towards Critical Secular Studies in Education: addressing secular education formations and their intersecting inequalities	2
Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability: towards a sympoietic approach	2
‘Death by a thousand cuts ’: the violence of academia revealed in women’s metaphors	2
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world: a collaborative and sensory methodology of hope	2
The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education	2
The accumulation economy of private schools: extraction, mystification and depletion	2
Falling into the gap: the coloniality of achievement gap discourses and their responses	2
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea	2
Truth-telling is uncomfortable: a conceptual framework for collectively building teacher capacity for discomfort	2
Exploring the limits of 21st century educational change discourses	2
Sharing the world without losing oneself: education in a pluralistic universe	2
Learners as implied citizens: the early emergence of curricular discourses on citizenship in lessons about writing	2
IV. Arrested feedback loops: student experience and teachers’ evaluation	2
Pedagogies of dialogue in global citizenship education: pre-service teachers navigate controversial issues across borders	2
The illiberal, neo-liberal and collegial university in contemporary Polish higher education. Temporal entanglements and ontological co-existence amidst geopolitical shifts	2
Helping others become: the pathologisation of non-participation in secondary school peer groups	2
The trans student as callejer@ or ‘streetwise theorist’: notes on epistemic justice and a call for trans*intramural reading	2
Markets, metrics, and modernisation: Higher Education strategy makers’ conceptualisations of digital empowerment	2
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world: propositions for pedagogical justice	2
Introduction: critiquing the onto-epistemic coloniality of modernity in/beyond education	2
Australia’s policy discourse of culturally and linguistically diverse teachers	2
Discourse thanks reviewers, 2022	1
The unearned privilege of charity law: how the law maintains elite education	1

Radical care as epistemic justice: a queer and trans refusal of neoliberalism, whiteness and the settler-colonial gaze	1
Amplifying critical syncretism in Asia as method : understanding policy enactments in a Hong Kong school through Mohap	1
The dashboard school: governing teachers, students and parents in the data-driven school	1
Relaxed and flexible – what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools?	1
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations	1
‘No one would give me that job in Australia’: when professional identities intersect with how teachers look, speak, and where they come from	1
Special issue editorial: democratic decline and the changing state-university relationship in Europe	1
Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice	1
Intercultural understanding in practice: insights from International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme teachers	1
The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan	1
Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas	1
The discourses of self and identity: a Levinasian approach to rethinking discourse	1
Affective enactments of class: attuning to events, practice, capacity	1
(Long pause): what does silence say about boys’ reflexivity?	1
Thinking teacher education through military imaginaries: A diffractive and decolonising reading	1
‘Jihad literacy’: the legacy of US-sponsored textbooks for Afghan children	1
Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’: some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future	1
Chineseness in Southeast Asian higher education	1
International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces	1
Figures fighting figures – unpacking state authority's mis/trust in PISA statistics	1
Evidence informed policy? The Australian Education Research Organisation's borrowed knowledge-rich curriculum dispositif	1
Reparations: theorising just futures of education	1
Rethinking material aspirations in global citizenship education: from economic growth to supporting well-Being	1
Cultural representation in primary ELT textbooks: an approach of multimodal discourse analysis	1
Towards a textural sociological approach to single mothers’ voices: a study of Hong Kong mothers	1
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system	1
Queering the environmental provocation	1
Narrative, zombie academic leadership, and the contemporary university	1
The educational dynamics of populism: schooling, teacher expertise and popular claims to knowledge	1
Unlearning emotional imperialism in education: political, theoretical and pedagogical implications	1
Stories of the canon (stories of the self): towards an intra-active decolonisation of higher education	1
The politics of data visualizations. Introduction to special issue	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
Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature	1
Mirror, mirror on the wall? Is there anythingfairin here at all? Examining the current relationship of school and society	1
Connecting with land: knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico	1
Reading climate: subject English beyond the colonial	1
The affective intensities of teacher data relations: problematising data visualisation surfaces	1
III. From performance to mastery: rethinking diverse writing assessments across disciplines	1
The inaudible power in modern Chinese language education: epistemic coloniality and politics of knowledge in punctuation marks reform	1
I. facing resistance: the challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices	1
The politics of heritage education: an analysis of national curriculum guidelines in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden	1
Trans epistemicide and the implications for education	1
On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education	1
Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process	1
The discursive representation of the International Baccalaureate in the global press: a computer-assisted discourse analysis	1