OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Obituaries for Dr Ted D'Urso	52
Great expectations: understanding perceptions of the affordances and constraints of dashboard data	30
Evaluating a children’s television show as a vehicle for learning about historical artefacts: the value of multimodal discourse analysis	20
Mirror, mirror on the wall? Is there anythingfairin here at all? Examining the current relationship of school and society	16
Working-class girls’ construction of learner identities and aspirations through engagement in Chinese language education in Australia	15
From national exceptionalism to national imperialism: changing motives of comparative education	13
Figures fighting figures – unpacking state authority's mis/trust in PISA statistics	11
Inscribing uncertainty. Visualizing edu-automation through spatializing techniques	10
Discourses of international actors in the construction of the decentralisation policy: the case of Benin	9
Correction	9
‘Shooting your voice’: challenging power relations at school through Photovoice	8
The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education	8
Buzzwords, blends and branding: marketing meets education policyspeak	8
The material-discursive phenomena of queer-bodies, clothing and schooling	8
Losing lockers: the disappearance of a social space in US middle schools and high schools	7
Players chatter and dice clatter: exploring sonic power relations in posthuman game-based learning ecologies	7
Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling	7
A critical discourse study of cultural and national identity (re)construction in Taiwanese high school EFL textbooks	6
Cultural narratives and educational goals: a discourse analysis of university presidents’ opening convocation speeches in the U.S. and China	6
Rethinking teaching: alternative ontologies of educational praxis and thought	6
Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature	6
The politics of heritage education: an analysis of national curriculum guidelines in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden	6
Cosmopolitan nationalism: where is the cosmopolitanism?	6
International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces	6
Reflexive empathy as social relation: the case for contextualised professional learning	5

The emotional power of educational branding: exploring parental decision-making in South Australia’s preschool choices	5
Rights, rules and remedies: interrogating the policy discourse of school exclusion in Wales	5
Geographies of wealth: the materiality of an elite school in Switzerland	5
Radical care as epistemic justice: a queer and trans refusal of neoliberalism, whiteness and the settler-colonial gaze	5
‘It comes with more baggage than prestige’: deferred culpability and disavowal among elite boys’ school alumni	4
Cultural representation in primary ELT textbooks: an approach of multimodal discourse analysis	4
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system	4
‘No one would give me that job in Australia’: when professional identities intersect with how teachers look, speak, and where they come from	4
Mapping categories of philanthropy in Australian public schooling	4
Relaxed and flexible – what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools?	4
Unsettling the reason of time: Indigenist epistemology and the child in the Australian curriculum	4
Ellie’s story: counter-conduct in the primary classroom	4
Deconstructing innercirclism: a critical exploration of multimodal discourse in an English as a foreign language textbook	4
Viral Zoom Karen: attending to ‘the scratch’ with Mapping the Affective Turn in Education	3
International education and the rise of paleoconservative thought: mapping the growth of the International Baccalaureate in the United States along county-level voting patterns	3
Do I have to wear mud pants? Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool	3
The hero’s journey: understanding the experiences and motivations of international secondary students	3
Inheritance, disobedience and speculation in pedagogic practice	3
Call for papers: cosmopolitan nationalism: analytical potentials and challenges	3
Learning to dashboard: modes of producing and deploying data visualising technologies in higher distance education	3
Am I a temptress or a guardian? The discourse of securitization and girls’ education in a religiously-driven-postcolonial-security state of Pakistan	3
The generation of the utopia: Itinerant curriculum theory towards a ‘futurable future’	3
Chineseness in Southeast Asian higher education	3
Participatory politics and education policy reform: publics and histories	3
The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state	3
Connecting with land: knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Using Chinese and First Nations philosophies about time and history to reimagine transcultural doctoral education	3