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Papers

(The median citation count 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond conventional critique in education: embracing the affirmative	47
Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community	42
Neuroscience and emotional labour of teachers in a Norwegian kindergarten: filling the ‘holes’ in children’s brains	25
Feeling school failure: the emotional politics of grade retention and the making of schooled subjects	15
Acknowledgment to reviewers	15
Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden	15
A host community’s experiences of an international teaching practicum: “They taught … and they left”	14
Funded, then forgotten: politics, public memory and national school reform	13
On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks	13
Public education and teacher professionalism in an age of accountability	12
Can critical pedagogy resist the conservative employability agenda – how are academics implicated and how are they to manoeuvre?	11
Becoming propaganda: critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education	11
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	9
Socioeconomic segregation as ‘education quality’: analysis of parents’ educational narratives in Chile	8
Gendering and slow violence as mundane political practice in early childhood education	8
(Re)configurations of public education: marketisation, teacher professionalism, and individual rights of students and educators in Norway and Sweden	8
Struggles over teacher education knowledge in Australia: a Bernsteinian analysis	8
Land, labour, and sovereignty in school: the Strelley mob and zones of contest in Indigenous education	8
Correction	7
Difficult funds of knowledge (DFoK) in educating for social justice: bringing ‘dark funds of knowledge’ and ‘difficult knowledge’ into conversation	7
Digital platform work reinforcing performativity: teacher responses to work intensification explored through trace ethnography	7
Governing educational choices through guidance: a problem representation analysis of Swedish education policies	7
Acknowledgment to reviewers	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
Governing universal higher education through markets: a poststructural perspective on massification	6
The lifelong learner in cognitive capitalism: the ability-capital machine and the production of neurotic citizens	6
Treason and revenge: the emergence and continuation of ILSA contracting	6
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support	5
(Mis)recognising the symbolic violence of academically selective education in England: a critical application of Bourdieusian analysis to pupils’ lived experiences	5
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality	5
Indigenous self-determination in Māori education and reactionary responses from 1960 to 1992	5
Acknowledgment to reviewers	5
Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education	5
Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish Universities about the post-truth crisis	5
Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality	5
Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe	5
Towards unsettling the racial nation-state: affective interventions in an Australian literature classroom	5
Teaching social justice education: the nature, role and future of discomfort	5
‘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	4
Enacted spaces of peer learning: tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education	4
Ways we performed inclusion and fell short: shared entanglements with violence in social justice education	4
Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying	4
Introduction to special section: the political life of education online	4
Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy	4
Rethinking the decolonization of higher education through political theology: Enrique Dussel’s liberation theology and Pedagogics	4
Evidence-based research in education: the questionable epistemic status of RCTs	4
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction	4
Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector	3
Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education	3
A response to Variyan and Edwards-Groves	3
What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions?	3
Pathways to progress? – collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education	3
‘Maybe I’m just not strong enough’: on the care exploitation of teachers in hard-to-staff schools	3
Administrative life in the time before crisis: affect and the codependence of data and fear	3
Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education	3
Experiences of discomfort in social justice education with pre-service teachers: understanding and responding to student resistance	3
Distorted images: Black women’s representation in elementary social studies texts	3
Counter-Critical Pedagogy: A Manifesto	3
The multiple temporalities of policy-oriented sociology of education: recuperating the historical, Reinhart Koselleck, and the historical imagination of policy sociological work	3
The timescape of school tasks: towards algorhythmic patterns of on-screen tasks	3
Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime	3
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula: towards Earthly education	2
Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education	2
Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021)	2
History of the present of the right to play, affective governance, and making exclusion in joy	2
Globalised discourses of ‘challenging behaviours’ and implications for their construction and management in education	2
Can we keep up with the aspirations of Indigenous education?	2
Critical theory in prestigious academic environments: a first-generation student’s chronicle	2
On the utility of the concept of ‘school-related gender-based violence’ (SRGBV) in the context of escalating gendered violence in schools	2
Pedagogical attachments and Virtual Reality: on immersion with digital technology in school	2
Ghosts of data futures past: revolution as repetition in datafied education research and governance	2
A collaborative autoethnography of early-career scholars’ becoming in the field of curriculum studies in South Korea	2

‘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	2
The mundane governance of education through time: the case of national testing in Norway	2
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy: privileging voices of Bundjalung elders	2
Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium	2
Grappling with wicked problems: teacher professionalism and pedagogical mappings for reparative futures	2
Quantifying academic integrity: Turnitin and negotiated ethics in higher education in Turkey	2
Hidden in plain view: Indigenous early career researchers' experiences and perceptions of racism in Australian universities	2
Race, affect, and marginalized communities: navigating racialized emotions in community-engaged pedagogy	2
Kîyokêwin (Visiting), leadership, and consenting to learn in public: indigenizing social sciences and humanities at the Royal Military College of Canada	2
Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education	2