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Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Studies in 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
Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry	38
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	22
Beyond conventional critique in education: embracing the affirmative	15
Neuroscience and emotional labour of teachers in a Norwegian kindergarten: filling the ‘holes’ in children’s brains	11
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	10
Becoming propaganda: critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education	9
On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks	9
A host community’s experiences of an international teaching practicum: “They taught … and they left”	9
Public education and teacher professionalism in an age of accountability	8
Funded, then forgotten: politics, public memory and national school reform	8
Can critical pedagogy resist the conservative employability agenda – how are academics implicated and how are they to manoeuvre?	7
Acknowledgment to reviewers	7
Unpacking the discursive construction of gender in higher education: contending approaches and policy silences	6
Land, labour, and sovereignty in school: the Strelley mob and zones of contest in Indigenous education	6
Gendering and slow violence as mundane political practice in early childhood education	6
Negotiating Indigenous higher education policy analysis at the cultural interface in the Northern Territory, Australia	6
Digital platform work reinforcing performativity: teacher responses to work intensification explored through trace ethnography	6
(Re)configurations of public education: marketisation, teacher professionalism, and individual rights of students and educators in Norway and Sweden	6
Struggles over teacher education knowledge in Australia: a Bernsteinian analysis	6
‘If you love teaching so much … ’ teaching against the injunctions of the capitalist state and refusing the weaponization of love	6
Correction	5
Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development	5
Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education	5
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support	5
Acknowledgment to reviewers	5

(Mis)recognising the symbolic violence of academically selective education in England: a critical application of Bourdieusian analysis to pupils’ lived experiences	5
Treason and revenge: the emergence and continuation of ILSA contracting	5
Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe	5
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality	4
Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish Universities about the post-truth crisis	4
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state: affective interventions in an Australian literature classroom	4
Indigenous self-determination in Māori education and reactionary responses from 1960 to 1992	4
Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality	4
Color-evasive free speech ideology: a conceptual analysis of free speech as racial oppression in U.S. higher education	3
Enacted spaces of peer learning: tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education	3
Normalizing race in (gifted) education: genomics and spaces of White exceptionalism	3
‘We have a right to flourish in our own land’: using pedagogies of healing to support Indigenous students to thrive in university classrooms	3
Ways we performed inclusion and fell short: shared entanglements with violence in social justice education	3
Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying	3
Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education	2
Evidence-based research in education: the questionable epistemic status of RCTs	2
Pathways to progress? – collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education	2
A response to Variyan and Edwards-Groves	2
Counter-Critical Pedagogy: A Manifesto	2
Quantifying academic integrity: Turnitin and negotiated ethics in higher education in Turkey	2
What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions?	2
The timescape of school tasks: towards algorhythmic patterns of on-screen tasks	2
Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy	2
Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime	2
Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education	2
The multiple temporalities of policy-oriented sociology of education: recuperating the historical, Reinhart Koselleck, and the historical imagination of policy sociological work	2
A collaborative autoethnography of early-career scholars’ becoming in the field of curriculum studies in South Korea	2
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction	2
Introduction to special section: the political life of education online	2
Can schools and libraries curb the functional illiteracy crisis? Insights from the Netherlands	2
Administrative life in the time before crisis: affect and the codependence of data and fear	2
Distorted images: Black women’s representation in elementary social studies texts	2
Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education	2
Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector	2
Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking	1
The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university	1
Education Hesitant: Lessons, Specificity, and Rearticulations for School Abolition	1
Researching and theorising the imbrications of temporalities and datafied governance of education systems: an Afterword	1
Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021)	1
The mundane governance of education through time: the case of national testing in Norway	1
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula: towards Earthly education	1
Recovery as resistance: bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought	1
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy: privileging voices of Bundjalung elders	1
The resilience of racism and affective numbness: cultivating an aesthetics of attention in education	1
Acknowledgment to reviewers	1
Carceral logics and education	1
Critical theory in prestigious academic environments: a first-generation student’s chronicle	1
‘I have to play the game to get what I want’: deconstructing social mobility through the lived experiences of women of color in higher education	1
Hidden in plain view: Indigenous early career researchers' experiences and perceptions of racism in Australian universities	1
Ghosts of data futures past: revolution as repetition in datafied education research and governance	1

Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education	1
Can we keep up with the aspirations of Indigenous education?	1
The OECD’s construction of future imaginaries for curriculum reform	1
Locked-down learning amid COVID-19: young refugees in Greece and their supporters co-navigating a new crisis	1
The theory of practice architectures and its discontents: disturbing received wisdom to make it dangerous again	1
Normative whiteness in Finnish university education	1
Kîyokêwin (Visiting), leadership, and consenting to learn in public: indigenizing social sciences and humanities at the Royal Military College of Canada	1
Race, affect, and marginalized communities: navigating racialized emotions in community-engaged pedagogy	1
Filling gaps: assessment software and the production of mathematics and its teaching and learning in primary schools	1
Grappling with wicked problems: teacher professionalism and pedagogical mappings for reparative futures	1
Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium	1
Becoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members’ discursive practices about school climate in Chile	1