| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The neoliberal cascade and education: an essay on the market agenda and its consequences | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 607 |
| 2 | Policy borrowing, policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling | Critical Studies in Education | 2010 | 459 |
| 3 | Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 381 |
| 4 | Good teachers on dangerous ground: towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism | Critical Studies in Education | 2009 | 318 |
| 5 | Control by numbers: new managerialism and ranking in higher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2015 | 187 |
| 6 | ‘When saying you care is not really caring’: emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2014 | 142 |
| 7 | The neoliberal regime in English higher education: charters, consumers and the erosion of the public good | Critical Studies in Education | 2015 | 134 |
| 8 | Critical pedagogy and emotion: working through ‘troubled knowledge’ in posttraumatic contexts | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 132 |
| 9 | Social justice in Australian higher education policy: an historical and conceptual account of student participation | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 127 |
| 10 | Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education | Critical Studies in Education | 2019 | 120 |
| 11 | Schooling and social justice through the lenses of Nancy Fraser | Critical Studies in Education | 2012 | 115 |
| 12 | The impact of research on education policy in an era of evidence-based policy | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 112 |
| 13 | An ideology critique of global citizenship education | Critical Studies in Education | 2020 | 111 |
| 14 | The capacity to aspire to higher education: ‘It's like making them do a play without a script’ | Critical Studies in Education | 2010 | 110 |
| 15 | From ‘therapeutic’ to political education: the centrality of affective sensibility in critical pedagogy | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 108 |
| 16 | A feel for numbers: affect, data and education policy | Critical Studies in Education | 2015 | 105 |
| 17 | Making markets through digital platforms: Pearson, edu-business, and the (e)valuation of higher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2021 | 103 |
| 18 | Mobility, aspiration, voice: a new structure of feeling for student equity in higher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 98 |
| 19 | Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers’ work: federal policy, local effects | Critical Studies in Education | 2012 | 96 |
| 20 | Knowing one's place: space, theory, education | Critical Studies in Education | 2007 | 93 |
| 21 | Introduction: Critical studies of digital education platforms | Critical Studies in Education | 2021 | 89 |
| 22 | Silicon startup schools: technocracy, algorithmic imaginaries and venture philanthropy in corporate education reform | Critical Studies in Education | 2018 | 87 |
| 23 | Student voice and the politics of listening in higher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 85 |
| 24 | Issues surrounding English, the internationalisation of higher education and national cultural identity in Asia: a focus on Japan | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 82 |
| 25 | The (absent) politics of neo-liberal education policy | Critical Studies in Education | 2012 | 81 |
| 26 | International education, the formation of capital and graduate employment: Chinese accounting graduates’ experiences of the Australian labour market | Critical Studies in Education | 2017 | 81 |
| 27 | Policy mobilities and methodology: a proposition for inventive methods in education policy studies | Critical Studies in Education | 2017 | 81 |
| 28 | Relationship to place: positioning Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives in classroom pedagogies | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 79 |
| 29 | New public management as a global education policy: its adoption and re-contextualization in a Southern European setting | Critical Studies in Education | 2014 | 78 |
| 30 | Toward a critical pedagogy of engagement for alienated youth: insights from Freire and school‐based research | Critical Studies in Education | 2009 | 76 |
| 31 | Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom | Critical Studies in Education | 2021 | 76 |
| 32 | The ‘right’ education in Israel: segregation, religious ethnonationalism, and depoliticized professionalism | Critical Studies in Education | 2018 | 74 |
| 33 | Pedagogies of transformation: keeping hope alive in troubled times | Critical Studies in Education | 2012 | 73 |
| 34 | Neoliberalism is not a theory of everything: a Bourdieuian analysis ofillusioin educational research | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 67 |
| 35 | Assembling, disassembling and reassembling ‘youth services’ in Austerity Britain | Critical Studies in Education | 2015 | 67 |
| 36 | Converging us softly: how intergovernmental organizations promote neoliberal educational policy | Critical Studies in Education | 2007 | 65 |
| 37 | Supporting refugee students in school education in Greater Western Sydney | Critical Studies in Education | 2010 | 65 |
| 38 | A Rosa Parks moment? School choice and the marketization of civil rights | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 63 |
| 39 | Feedback literacies as sociomaterial practice | Critical Studies in Education | 2022 | 63 |
| 40 | Disciplinary texts: a policy analysis of national and local behaviour policies | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 61 |
| 41 | Golden relics & historical standards: how the OECD is expanding global education governance through PISA for Development | Critical Studies in Education | 2017 | 59 |
| 42 | A colonial history of the higher education present: rethinking land-grant institutions through processes of accumulation and relations of conquest | Critical Studies in Education | 2020 | 59 |
| 43 | Schooling, productivity and the enterprising self: beyond market values | Critical Studies in Education | 2009 | 57 |
| 44 | The culture of education policy making: curriculum reform in Shanghai | Critical Studies in Education | 2012 | 57 |
| 45 | Alternative education and social justice: considering issues of affective and contributive justice | Critical Studies in Education | 2016 | 57 |
| 46 | Experiential ‘hot’ knowledge and its influence on low-SES students' capacities to aspire to higher education | Critical Studies in Education | 2011 | 55 |
| 47 | The inherent vulnerability of the Australian Curriculum’s cross-curriculum priorities | Critical Studies in Education | 2016 | 54 |
| 48 | Education for transformation: an evaluative framework to guide student voice work in schools | Critical Studies in Education | 2019 | 53 |
| 49 | ‘Don't talk about what you don't know’: on (not) conducting research with/in Indigenous contexts | Critical Studies in Education | 2013 | 52 |
| 50 | Girls’ educational aspirations and agency: imagining alternative futures through schooling in a low-resourced Tanzanian community | Critical Studies in Education | 2018 | 51 |
