OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Studies in Education is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond conventional critique in education: embracing the affirmative	46
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	36
Neuroscience and emotional labour of teachers in a Norwegian kindergarten: filling the ‘holes’ in children’s brains	21
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	14
Acknowledgment to reviewers	13
A host community’s experiences of an international teaching practicum: “They taught … and they left”	12
Becoming propaganda: critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education	12
On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks	11
Funded, then forgotten: politics, public memory and national school reform	10
Public education and teacher professionalism in an age of accountability	10
Can critical pedagogy resist the conservative employability agenda – how are academics implicated and how are they to manoeuvre?	10
Negotiating Indigenous higher education policy analysis at the cultural interface in the Northern Territory, Australia	9
Unpacking the discursive construction of gender in higher education: contending approaches and policy silences	8
(Re)configurations of public education: marketisation, teacher professionalism, and individual rights of students and educators in Norway and Sweden	8
Acknowledgment to reviewers	7
Socioeconomic segregation as ‘education quality’: analysis of parents’ educational narratives in Chile	7
Struggles over teacher education knowledge in Australia: a Bernsteinian analysis	7
Gendering and slow violence as mundane political practice in early childhood education	7
Digital platform work reinforcing performativity: teacher responses to work intensification explored through trace ethnography	7
Land, labour, and sovereignty in school: the Strelley mob and zones of contest in Indigenous education	7
Correction	6
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support	6
Difficult funds of knowledge (DFoK) in educating for social justice: bringing ‘dark funds of knowledge’ and ‘difficult knowledge’ into conversation	6
Treason and revenge: the emergence and continuation of ILSA contracting	6
‘If you love teaching so much … ’ teaching against the injunctions of the capitalist state and refusing the weaponization of love	6

The lifelong learner in cognitive capitalism: the ability-capital machine and the production of neurotic citizens	6
Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality	5
Acknowledgment to reviewers	5
Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development	5
Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe	5
Governing universal higher education through markets: a poststructural perspective on massification	5
Indigenous self-determination in Māori education and reactionary responses from 1960 to 1992	5
Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education	5
(Mis)recognising the symbolic violence of academically selective education in England: a critical application of Bourdieusian analysis to pupils’ lived experiences	5
Teaching social justice education: the nature, role and future of discomfort	4
Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying	4
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state: affective interventions in an Australian literature classroom	4
Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish Universities about the post-truth crisis	4
Ways we performed inclusion and fell short: shared entanglements with violence in social justice education	4
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality	4
Rethinking the decolonization of higher education through political theology: Enrique Dussel’s liberation theology and Pedagogics	4