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Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rights, rules and remedies: interrogating the policy discourse of school exclusion in Wales	70
International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs): what have they done for education?	32
Inscribing uncertainty. Visualizing edu-automation through spatializing techniques	31
Cultural narratives and educational goals: a discourse analysis of university presidents’ opening convocation speeches in the U.S. and China	21
The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education	19
Cosmopolitan nationalism: where is the cosmopolitanism?	14
Just because you are staying does not mean you are ‘stuck’: conceptualisations of academic mobility for precarious academics	13
“Do I have to wear mud pants?”: Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool	12
Reimagining national identity in neoliberal education: Truyện Kiều, femininity and discourse in Vietnamese textbooks	12
Environmentality in (food) sustainability education: an analysis of a pedagogic intervention in Italy	12
Retooling the tools of critical reflection: on how quotidian tasks undermine critical inquiry	12
Who gets heard? Discursive formation of teacher subjectivity in the AI era	10
‘Who has the last word?’ – Thinking from the middle of pedagogical encounters in early childhood education	10
From confident subject to humble citizen: reimagining citizenship education in contemporary China	9
Traces of cosmopolitan nationalism in educative global action: exploring two international baccalaureate international school approaches to global agency	8
Thinking and creating space with children: a Terrestrial perspective	8
Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong	8
Education modernization in rural China: exploring temporality in education policy	8
Trans-forming the discipline: the subjugation of psychologists working in adult gender clinics across the UK	7
Education authorities setting the boundaries of legitimate discourse through responses to critique of test-based accountability in Norway	7
Engagement at a cost: rethinking gendered leadership and emotional labour in contemporary schooling	7
‘Moment of Panic': a qualitative diary study on student–faculty partnerships	6
Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion	6
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device	6
A ‘fish in water’: the (re)production of a student’s class habitus through the practice of student voice	6

Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994–2020: a corpus-assisted analysis	6
Inclusive rhetoric, exclusive reality. A critical discourse analysis on government responses to the Australian disability royal commission recommendations	6
Can the student speak? Voicing identities and experience in UK higher education	5
The Quadruple Movement: market rationalities and the formation of educational subjects	5
Publishers' Note	5
From idealizations to boundaries: understanding complexities of identifying as a ‘reformed’ teacher through novice teacher professional self-authoring	5
The rise of the pro-sessional: precarious employees taking on complex and faculty-critical roles	5
Reflexive empathy as social relation: the case for contextualised professional learning	5
Obituaries for Dr Ted D'Urso	5
Conceptualising Confucian queer subjectivation: how Chinese LGBTQ teachers make sense of and navigate their sexuality in schools	5
"Studying ‘#Schoolfies’: representing elite schooling on Instagram during the pandemic in Singapore	5
Correction	5
Players chatter and dice clatter: exploring sonic power relations in posthuman game-based learning ecologies	4
Marketizing education: a microanalytic account	4
Helping others become: the pathologisation of non-participation in secondary school peer groups	4
Making and breaking the Australian family: family, diversity, and parent–school engagement policy	4
Ellie’s story: counter-conduct in the primary classroom	4
What’s love got to do with it? Thinking touch in education with theories of love	4
Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability: towards a sympoietic approach	4
Presumed foreign, homophobic, transphobic and oppressed: Muslim women teacher candidates’ micro-level experiences in Canadian teacher education	4
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea	4
Geographies of wealth: the materiality of an elite school in Switzerland	4
A critical discourse study of cultural and national identity (re)construction in Taiwanese high school EFL textbooks	4
Governing after COVID-19: the discourse of education recovery policy in the UK	4
Towards pedagogies of affective dissonance for intergenerational listening and un/learning	4
The trans student as callejer@ or ‘streetwise theorist’: notes on epistemic justice and a call for trans*intramural reading	4
Automating what? Scholastic products and instructional automation in virtual schooling	4
Losing lockers: the disappearance of a social space in US middle schools and high schools	4
Markets, metrics, and modernisation: Higher Education strategy makers’ conceptualisations of digital empowerment	3
Towards Critical Secular Studies in Education: addressing secular education formations and their intersecting inequalities	3
Exploring discursive constructions of Indonesian and multicultural values in BIPA textbook: a critical discourse study	3
Reimagining sound and affect: challenging traditional meaning-making in early childhood education assemblages beyond language	3
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world: propositions for pedagogical justice	3
Avatar citizenship: subjectivity formation of ethnoreligious minority youth in Jerusalem’s Armenian School	3
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world: a collaborative and sensory methodology of hope	3
Pedagogies of dialogue in global citizenship education: pre-service teachers navigate controversial issues across borders	3
IV. Arrested feedback loops: student experience and teachers’ evaluation	3
School knowledge and teacher authority – politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention	3
‘Entwined’: media’s conflation of gender and sexuality during education cultural wars	3
The accumulation economy of private schools: extraction, mystification and depletion	3
How multilingual learners are portrayed in recent news media: a cross-platform content analysis	3
Falling into the gap: the coloniality of achievement gap discourses and their responses	3
‘Death by a thousand cuts ’: the violence of academia revealed in women’s metaphors	3
Truth-telling is uncomfortable: a conceptual framework for collectively building teacher capacity for discomfort	3
The illiberal, neo-liberal and collegial university in contemporary Polish higher education. Temporal entanglements and ontological co-existence amidst geopolitical shifts	3
The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education	3
Australia’s policy discourse of culturally and linguistically diverse teachers	3
Learners as implied citizens: the early emergence of curricular discourses on citizenship in lessons about writing	3
Reading climate: subject English beyond the colonial	2
(Long pause): what does silence say about boys’ reflexivity?	2

A dangerous turn: the confluence of safety and citizenship discourses in educational scholarship	2
Connecting with land: knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico	2
Relaxed and flexible – what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools?	2
The dashboard school: governing teachers, students and parents in the data-driven school	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 politics of data visualizations. Introduction to special issue	2
The unearned privilege of charity law: how the law maintains elite education	2
Performative belonging: contesting memories of liberal studies among 1.5-generation immigrants in Hong Kong	2
Discourse thanks reviewers, 2022	2
Evidence informed policy? The Australian Education Research Organisation's borrowed knowledge-rich curriculum dispositif	2
Stories of the canon (stories of the self): towards an intra-active decolonisation of higher education	2
Chineseness in Southeast Asian higher education	2
Mirror, mirror on the wall? Is there anythingfairin here at all? Examining the current relationship of school and society	2
Radical care as epistemic justice: a queer and trans refusal of neoliberalism, whiteness and the settler-colonial gaze	2
Figures fighting figures – unpacking state authority's mis/trust in PISA statistics	2
Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’: some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future	2
Amplifying critical syncretism in Asia as method : understanding policy enactments in a Hong Kong school t	2
The art of being global: rearticulations of global citizenship from International Baccalaureate students in southern China	2
The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan	2
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations	2
Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process	2
Narrative, zombie academic leadership, and the contemporary university	2
I. facing resistance: the challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices	2
Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature	2
International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces	2
Teacher candidates navigating immigration discourses in a politically polarized era	2
(Not) teaching a spectacularly sticky subject under right-wing populism: evolution, affect, and curriculum politics in Turkey	2
Thinking teacher education through military imaginaries: A diffractive and decolonising reading	2
Unlearning emotional imperialism in education: political, theoretical and pedagogical implications	2
Rethinking material aspirations in global citizenship education: from economic growth to supporting well-Being	2
On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education	2
‘No one would give me that job in Australia’: when professional identities intersect with how teachers look, speak, and where they come from	1
The ins and outs of bodies: sex educators’ embodied insights on official/erotic discourses	1
Rethinking equity in school funding models: the need to centre teacher wellbeing	1
Unsettling inclusion: refugee-background students and the cultural politics of regional schooling	1
Trans epistemicide and the implications for education	1
The educational dynamics of populism: schooling, teacher expertise and popular claims to knowledge	1
Intercultural understanding in practice: insights from International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme teachers	1
The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state	1
Call for papers: cosmopolitan nationalism: analytical potentials and challenges	1
Situated data encounters: how teachers animate (and are animated by) data visualisations in literacy coaching work	1
Discursive forces of gender and sexuality–both in fiction and reality: as told by teens	1
The inaudible power in modern Chinese language education: epistemic coloniality and politics of knowledge in punctuation marks reform	1
Teaching political theory: a Rancièrian practice	1
Cultural representation in primary ELT textbooks: an approach of multimodal discourse analysis	1
Visualising the school: a critical study on co-designing a Moodle-based learning management system	1
Media representations of Canadian offshore schools in China: a bilingual comparative analysis	1
Middle-class mothers’ participation in tutoring for spoken English: a case of unlocking middle-class identity and privilege in contemporary India	1
Am I a temptress or a guardian? The discourse of securitization and girls’ education in a religiously-driven-postcolonial-security state of Pakistan	1
The affective intensities of teacher data relations: problematising data visualisation surfaces	1
Moralised capital and the ethics of English learning in post-neoliberal Korea: from virtue to communication	1
Queering the environmental provocation	1
International education and the rise of paleoconservative thought: mapping the growth of the International Baccalaureate in the United States along county-level voting patterns	1
The politics of heritage education: an analysis of national curriculum guidelines in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden	1
‘We don’t value teaching as much as we should’: tracing ‘teacher’ professional identity in critical times	1
Special issue editorial: cosmopolitan nationalism: analytical potentials and challenges	1
Cosmopolitan nationalism in action: navigating global educational mandates in Ecuador’s public schools	1
Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice	1
Constructing the EFL learner: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Chinese middle school textbook revisions	1
Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system	1
Community linguascapes and epistemic linguascapes: making a case for multilingual doctoral education in Australia	1
Engineering civility: steeling global citizenship education’s democratic resolve against nihilism and for civil repair	1
‘Being-well-in-relationships’: re-conceptualising students’ wellbeing in secondary education	1
Constellations in a starry sky: building epistemic justice for children of all genders in early childhood classrooms	1
Reparations: theorising just futures of education	1
Special issue editorial: democratic decline and the changing state-university relationship in Europe	1
‘Jihad literacy’: the legacy of US-sponsored textbooks for Afghan children	1
Contesting the consensus of data interoperability in envisioning schooling	1
Essentially, on their own? Learnings from the ‘essential/non-essential’ pandemic discourse as it applied to Australia early childhood education and care policy	1
Between disconcertment and joy: using emotions to navigate academia as PhD researchers	1
Book banning and contractual expectations of white cisheteropatriarchy: a praxis for epistemic justice in K–12 schools	1
Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas	1
Selling world-class education: British private schools, whiteness and the soft-sell technique	1
III. From performance to mastery: rethinking diverse writing assessments across disciplines	1
Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism	1