OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Studies in 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating datafied time: exploring the multiple temporalities of teachers’ work with digital assessment	36
Attention as an object of knowledge, intervention and valorisation: exploring data-driven neurotechnologies and imaginaries of intensified learning	25
‘If you love teaching so much … ’ teaching against the injunctions of the capitalist state and refusing the weaponization of love	12
‘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	10
The moral positioning of education policy publics: how social media is used to wedge an issue	9
Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy	9
Contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education	9
Beyond conventional critique in education: embracing the affirmative	9
Enacted spaces of peer learning: tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education	7
Race, affect, and marginalized communities: navigating racialized emotions in community-engaged pedagogy	7
Respect@Uni: A feminist insider perspective on respect-based culture change in higher education	7
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction	7
Negotiating the structural and personal intensities of gender, affects and whiteness through culturally responsive becoming in mathematics	6
Kîyokêwin (Visiting), leadership, and consenting to learn in public: indigenizing social sciences and humanities at the Royal Military College of Canada	6
Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education	6
Non-Indigenous Initial Teacher Education students navigating the cultural interface	5
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	5
Media articulation and the stabilisation of teacher policies in Chile	5
A critical examination of the use of ‘capitals approach’ in graduate employability research	5
Correction	5
Can schools and libraries curb the functional illiteracy crisis? Insights from the Netherlands	5
Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime	4
Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish public primary school	4
Response: Matters of (im)mobility: beyond fast conceptual and methodological readings in policy sociology	4
Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry	4

The teaching apparatus: A material-discursive entanglement of tasks and friendship in the upper-secondary classroom	4
The timescape of school tasks: towards algorhythmic patterns of on-screen tasks	4
Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development	4
The governance of teachers’ time allocation and data usage through a learning management system: a biopolitical perspective	4
Democracy and planetary politics: Achille Mbembe and futures of digital citizenship education for life	4
Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the ‘belaboured self’	4
Treason and revenge: the emergence and continuation of ILSA contracting	3
The evolving state of policy sociology	3
Mundane matters: entangling moments of student wellbeing across cultures, time, space, and virtual worlds	3
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	2
“Education is a white woman’s world”: theorizing race, gender, and geography in a liberatory Black pedagogical space	2
Mapping the meanings of inclusive education: a following the policy approach	2
Neuroscience and emotional labour of teachers in a Norwegian kindergarten: filling the ‘holes’ in children’s brains	2
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support	2
The need for speed: identification of ‘the deviant’ as the ultimate goal for high returns in early childhood education and care	2
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy: privileging voices of Bundjalung elders	2
Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector	2
Cultural capital, black holes, and the hidden curriculum: an analysis of grade repetition in Spain	2
(Mis)recognising the symbolic violence of academically selective education in England: a critical application of Bourdieusian analysis to pupils’ lived experiences	2
Troubling rurality and rural schooling: a qualitative meta-synthesis of research in rural schools in three European national school systems	2