OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rights, rules and remedies: interrogating the policy discourse of school exclusion in Wales	66
International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs): what have they done for education?	29
Inscribing uncertainty. Visualizing edu-automation through spatializing techniques	18
Cultural narratives and educational goals: a discourse analysis of university presidents’ opening convocation speeches in the U.S. and China	17
The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education	14
Cosmopolitan nationalism: where is the cosmopolitanism?	13
Who gets heard? Discursive formation of teacher subjectivity in the AI era	12
From confident subject to humble citizen: reimagining citizenship education in contemporary China	12
Just because you are staying does not mean you are ‘stuck’: conceptualisations of academic mobility for precarious academics	11
Reimagining national identity in neoliberal education: Truyện Kiều, femininity and discourse in Vietnamese textbooks	10
Environmentality in (food) sustainability education: an analysis of a pedagogic intervention in Italy	10
Retooling the tools of critical reflection: on how quotidian tasks undermine critical inquiry	9
Sustainability as Wild Policy: Mobile SDG Interventions and Land-informed Policy in Education	8
“Do I have to wear mud pants?”: Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool	8
Trans-forming the discipline: the subjugation of psychologists working in adult gender clinics across the UK	8
Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong	8
Thinking and creating space with children: a Terrestrial perspective	7
Education modernization in rural China: exploring temporality in education policy	7
Education authorities setting the boundaries of legitimate discourse through responses to critique of test-based accountability in Norway	6
Traces of cosmopolitan nationalism in educative global action: exploring two international baccalaureate international school approaches to global agency	6
Inclusive rhetoric, exclusive reality. A critical discourse analysis on government responses to the Australian disability royal commission recommendations	5
Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994–2020: a corpus-assisted analysis	5
‘Moment of Panic': a qualitative diary study on student–faculty partnerships	5
A ‘fish in water’: the (re)production of a student’s class habitus through the practice of student voice	5
Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion	5

From idealizations to boundaries: understanding complexities of identifying as a ‘reformed’ teacher through novice teacher professional self-authoring	5
Engagement at a cost: rethinking gendered leadership and emotional labour in contemporary schooling	5
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device	5
Conceptualising Confucian queer subjectivation: how Chinese LGBTQ teachers make sense of and navigate their sexuality in schools	5
Can the student speak? Voicing identities and experience in UK higher education	4
A critical discourse study of cultural and national identity (re)construction in Taiwanese high school EFL textbooks	4
Ellie’s story: counter-conduct in the primary classroom	4
Geographies of wealth: the materiality of an elite school in Switzerland	4
Mapping categories of philanthropy in Australian public schooling	4
Listen with your heart: auto-ethnographic reflection on the Wandiny creative gathering	4
Obituaries for Dr Ted D'Urso	4
Correction	4
Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling	4
The Quadruple Movement: market rationalities and the formation of educational subjects	4
"Studying ‘#Schoolfies’: representing elite schooling on Instagram during the pandemic in Singapore	4
Reflexive empathy as social relation: the case for contextualised professional learning	4
Publishers' Note	4
Losing lockers: the disappearance of a social space in US middle schools and high schools	4
The rise of the pro-sessional: precarious employees taking on complex and faculty-critical roles	4
What’s love got to do with it? Thinking touch in education with theories of love	3
Towards pedagogies of affective dissonance for intergenerational listening and un/learning	3
IV. Arrested feedback loops: student experience and teachers’ evaluation	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
Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability: towards a sympoietic approach	3
Marketizing education: a microanalytic account	3
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea	3
Making and breaking the Australian family: family, diversity, and parent–school engagement policy	3
Presumed foreign, homophobic, transphobic and oppressed: Muslim women teacher candidates’ micro-level experiences in Canadian teacher education	3
Helping others become: the pathologisation of non-participation in secondary school peer groups	3
School knowledge and teacher authority – politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention	3
Governing after COVID-19: the discourse of education recovery policy in the UK	3
Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process	2
Relaxed and flexible – what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools?	2
Amplifying critical syncretism in Asia as method : understanding policy enactments in a Hong Kong school t	2
‘Entwined’: media’s conflation of gender and sexuality during education cultural wars	2
The dashboard school: governing teachers, students and parents in the data-driven school	2
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world: a collaborative and sensory methodology of hope	2
Mirror, mirror on the wall? Is there anythingfairin here at all? Examining the current relationship of school and society	2
Australia’s policy discourse of culturally and linguistically diverse teachers	2
Truth-telling is uncomfortable: a conceptual framework for collectively building teacher capacity for discomfort	2
Reimagining sound and affect: challenging traditional meaning-making in early childhood education assemblages beyond language	2
The illiberal, neo-liberal and collegial university in contemporary Polish higher education. Temporal entanglements and ontological co-existence amidst geopolitical shifts	2
Radical care as epistemic justice: a queer and trans refusal of neoliberalism, whiteness and the settler-colonial gaze	2
Stories of the canon (stories of the self): towards an intra-active decolonisation of higher education	2
(Long pause): what does silence say about boys’ reflexivity?	2
I. facing resistance: the challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices	2
Connecting with land: knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico	2
The accumulation economy of private schools: extraction, mystification and depletion	2
How multilingual learners are portrayed in recent news media: a cross-platform content analysis	2

Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature	2
Chineseness in Southeast Asian higher education	2
Learners as implied citizens: the early emergence of curricular discourses on citizenship in lessons about writing	2
Falling into the gap: the coloniality of achievement gap discourses and their responses	2
Markets, metrics, and modernisation: Higher Education strategy makers’ conceptualisations of digital empowerment	2
The abjection of the sexual Other in sexuality education	2
Examining the social status characteristics of the elementary teaching profession from the visual rhetoric of universities	2
The art of being global: rearticulations of global citizenship from International Baccalaureate students in southern China	2
The unearned privilege of charity law: how the law maintains elite education	2
A dangerous turn: the confluence of safety and citizenship discourses in educational scholarship	2
Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’: some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future	2
The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education	2
(Not) teaching a spectacularly sticky subject under right-wing populism: evolution, affect, and curriculum politics in Turkey	2
International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces	2
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world: propositions for pedagogical justice	2
Pedagogies of dialogue in global citizenship education: pre-service teachers navigate controversial issues across borders	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
Figures fighting figures – unpacking state authority's mis/trust in PISA statistics	2