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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Critical studies of digital education platforms	120
Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom	91
Multiple temporalities in critical policy sociology in education	33
Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education	28
Paradoxes of freedom. An archaeological analysis of educational online platform interfaces	19
Response: Policy? Policy research? How absurd?	19
Indigenous education sovereignty: another way of ‘doing’ education	19
Governing knowledge in the entrepreneurial university: a feminist account of structural, cultural and political epistemic injustice	18
The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks	14
Critical perspectives on internationalization in higher education: commercialization, global citizenship, or postcolonial imperialism?	10
The timescape of school tasks: towards algorhythmic patterns of on-screen tasks	9
Response: Matters of (im)mobility: beyond fast conceptual and methodological readings in policy sociology	9
Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence	8
Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education	7
Contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education	7
Racialized retellings: (Un)ma(r)king space and place on college campuses	6
The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university	6
Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying	5
Affective governmentality through gratitude: governmental rationality, education, and everyday life	5
Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry	5
Race and the Evidence of Experience: Accounting for Race in Historical Thinking Pedagogy	5
Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education	5
Filling gaps: assessment software and the production of mathematics and its teaching and learning in primary schools	5
Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime	5
Educators as decolonial intellectuals: revolutionary thought from Gramsci to Fanon	4

Learning ‘in the hive’: social character and student wellbeing in the age of psychometric data	4
Can we keep up with the aspirations of Indigenous education?	4
Privileged careerists, working-class idealists: complicating the relationship of class, college values, and curricular choices	4
On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks	4
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	4
Reclaiming relationality in education policy: towards a more authentic relational pedagogy	4
Carceral logics and education	4
Teacher activists’ praxis in the movement against privatization and school closures in Oakland	4
The moral positioning of education policy publics: how social media is used to wedge an issue	4
Recovery as resistance: bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought	3
Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the ‘belaboured self’	3
Epistemic governance of diverse research practices and knowledge production: an introduction	3
Normalizing race in (gifted) education: genomics and spaces of White exceptionalism	3
Good teachers and counter conduct	3
The compliant wife, the good mother and other normalizing constructions of womanhood: a critical discourse analysis of idealized female identities within Turkish educational policy	3
The resilience of racism and affective numbness: cultivating an aesthetics of attention in education	2
The timeless beauty of data: inventing educational pasts, presents and futures through data visualisation	2
Reconstructing choice: parental choice of internationally-oriented “public” high schools in China	2
The evolving state of policy sociology	2
Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy	2
School as a site of transformative adult learning: parents’ experiences of Polish democratic schools	2
Schools, separating parents and family violence: a case study of the coercion of organisational networks	2
Counter-Critical Pedagogy: A Manifesto	2
Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish public primary school	2
Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium	2
Color-evasive free speech ideology: a conceptual analysis of free speech as racial oppression in U.S. higher education	2
Pathways to progress? – collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education	2
Disturbing able-bodiedness in ‘vulnerable’ schools: dis/orientations inside and through research-assemblages	2
Reproducing hierarchisation and depoliticisation: exploring discursive micro processes in global education	1
Critical theory in prestigious academic environments: a first-generation student’s chronicle	1
Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector	1
Mundane matters: entangling moments of student wellbeing across cultures, time, space, and virtual worlds	1
Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish Universities about the post-truth crisis	1
‘Success is different in our eyes’: reconciling definitions of educational success among Indigenous families and education systems in Alberta, Canada	1
Challenging university complicity and majoritarian narratives: counter-storytelling from black working-class students	1
Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe	1
From Global Citizenship to Anthropocene Denizenship: The Challenge to Education for Sustainable Development	1
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	1
Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education	1
Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021)	1
Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking	1
Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education	1
Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality	1
Becoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members’ discursive practices about school climate in Chile	1
Women’s networking in Spanish academia: a ‘catch-all’ strategy or strategic sisterhood?	1
The need for speed: identification of ‘the deviant’ as the ultimate goal for high returns in early childhood education and care	1
Respect@Uni: A feminist insider perspective on respect-based culture change in higher education	1
Heterotopia and the ‘image of Africa’: school tours and philanthropy in a Zimbabwean school	1
The theory of practice architectures and its discontents: disturbing received wisdom to make it dangerous again	1
Negotiating Indigenous higher education policy analysis at the cultural interface in the Northern Territory, Australia	1