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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry	42
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	30
Beyond conventional critique in education: embracing the affirmative	18
Neuroscience and emotional labour of teachers in a Norwegian kindergarten: filling the ‘holes’ in children’s brains	12
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	11
A host community’s experiences of an international teaching practicum: “They taught … and they left”	10
Becoming propaganda: critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education	10
On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks	9
Funded, then forgotten: politics, public memory and national school reform	9
Acknowledgment to reviewers	9
Public education and teacher professionalism in an age of accountability	8
Can critical pedagogy resist the conservative employability agenda – how are academics implicated and how are they to manoeuvre?	8
Negotiating Indigenous higher education policy analysis at the cultural interface in the Northern Territory, Australia	8
Unpacking the discursive construction of gender in higher education: contending approaches and policy silences	8
Gendering and slow violence as mundane political practice in early childhood education	7
Struggles over teacher education knowledge in Australia: a Bernsteinian analysis	7
Land, labour, and sovereignty in school: the Strelley mob and zones of contest in Indigenous education	7
(Re)configurations of public education: marketisation, teacher professionalism, and individual rights of students and educators in Norway and Sweden	7
‘If you love teaching so much … ’ teaching against the injunctions of the capitalist state and refusing the weaponization of love	6
Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development	6
Digital platform work reinforcing performativity: teacher responses to work intensification explored through trace ethnography	6
Difficult funds of knowledge (DFoK) in educating for social justice: bringing ‘dark funds of knowledge’ and ‘difficult knowledge’ into conversation	6
Correction	6
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

Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality	5
Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality	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
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
Indigenous self-determination in Māori education and reactionary responses from 1960 to 1992	5
Normalizing race in (gifted) education: genomics and spaces of White exceptionalism	4
Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying	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
Color-evasive free speech ideology: a conceptual analysis of free speech as racial oppression in U.S. higher education	4
Ways we performed inclusion and fell short: shared entanglements with violence in social justice education	4
‘We have a right to flourish in our own land’: using pedagogies of healing to support Indigenous students to thrive in university classrooms	4
Can schools and libraries curb the functional illiteracy crisis? Insights from the Netherlands	3
Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education	3
Pathways to progress? – collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education	3
The timescape of school tasks: towards algorhythmic patterns of on-screen tasks	3
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction	3
Introduction to special section: the political life of education online	3
Evidence-based research in education: the questionable epistemic status of RCTs	3
Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector	3
Rethinking the decolonization of higher education through political theology: Enrique Dussel’s liberation theology and Pedagogics	3
Enacted spaces of peer learning: tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education	3
Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy	3
Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime	3
The multiple temporalities of policy-oriented sociology of education: recuperating the historical, Reinhart Koselleck, and the historical imagination of policy sociological work	2
Recovery as resistance: bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought	2
Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium	2
A collaborative autoethnography of early-career scholars’ becoming in the field of curriculum studies in South Korea	2
A response to Variyan and Edwards-Groves	2
Distorted images: Black women’s representation in elementary social studies texts	2
Quantifying academic integrity: Turnitin and negotiated ethics in higher education in Turkey	2
Grappling with wicked problems: teacher professionalism and pedagogical mappings for reparative futures	2
On the utility of the concept of ‘school-related gender-based violence’ (SRGBV) in the context of escalating gendered violence in schools	2
Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education	2
Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education	2
Administrative life in the time before crisis: affect and the codependence of data and fear	2
Ghosts of data futures past: revolution as repetition in datafied education research and governance	2
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula: towards Earthly education	2
The mundane governance of education through time: the case of national testing in Norway	2
What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions?	2
Counter-Critical Pedagogy: A Manifesto	2
Race, affect, and marginalized communities: navigating racialized emotions in community-engaged pedagogy	1
Can we keep up with the aspirations of Indigenous education?	1
Locked-down learning amid COVID-19: young refugees in Greece and their supporters co-navigating a new crisis	1
Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the ‘belaboured self’	1
The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university	1
Becoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members’ discursive practices about school climate in Chile	1
The OECD’s construction of future imaginaries for curriculum reform	1

Critical theory in prestigious academic environments: a first-generation student’s chronicle	1
Queer youth and critical sexuality education pedagogies within networked publics: implications for school-based practice	1
Hidden in plain view: Indigenous early career researchers' experiences and perceptions of racism in Australian universities	1
Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021)	1
The theory of practice architectures and its discontents: disturbing received wisdom to make it dangerous again	1
Negotiating the structural and personal intensities of gender, affects and whiteness through culturally responsive becoming in mathematics	1
Media articulation and the stabilisation of teacher policies in Chile	1
Evaluating datafied time: exploring the multiple temporalities of teachers’ work with digital assessment	1
Mapping affect in critical moments of schooling for disenfranchised students	1
Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking	1
Education Hesitant: Lessons, Specificity, and Rearticulations for School Abolition	1
Kîyokêwin (Visiting), leadership, and consenting to learn in public: indigenizing social sciences and humanities at the Royal Military College of Canada	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
Researching and theorising the imbrications of temporalities and datafied governance of education systems: an Afterword	1
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy: privileging voices of Bundjalung elders	1
Non-Indigenous Initial Teacher Education students navigating the cultural interface	1
The resilience of racism and affective numbness: cultivating an aesthetics of attention in education	1
Carceral logics and education	1
Normative whiteness in Finnish university education	1
Acknowledgment to reviewers	1
Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education	1