Journal of Curriculum Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Curriculum Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Teachers’ views on students’ multilingual resources - tracking the impact of curriculum reform79
Correction39
Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries29
The elusive content of children’s human rights education28
A cultural turn in educational action and research26
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa24
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland24
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’21
Differentiating agents , differentiated patients : the production of subjects and knowledge(s) in theorizing differentiation in education21
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education18
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam17
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond15
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks14
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning13
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes13
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education12
Multi-perspectivity and the risk of perpetration minimisation in Dutch Holocaust and slavery education12
Mathematics textbooks as a potentially implemented curriculum: a systematic review11
The mathematics classroom as junkspace: a conceptual critique of educational spatiality10
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform10
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization10
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities10
School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England9
The racism of Maria Montessori9
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?9
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future9
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers9
IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP9
Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies8
Fostering mutual understanding through multiperspectivity: insights from 14 cross-border history education initiatives in post-conflict societies8
Materialities of progressive curriculum reform: a case study of one kindergarten classroom8
Navigating challenges: a critical examination of school-based curriculum development in Hong Kong8
From powerful knowledge to powerful thinking: On how to empower students through pedagogy and curriculum8
“The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies8
Fostering complex historical understandings: a study of Estonian pupils’ epistemic cognition and learning experiences8
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities7
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing7
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects7
Understanding citizenship education in Morocco: teachers’ beliefs, curriculum constraints, and pedagogical realities7
Powerful knowledge, school subjects and the curriculum: an international and comparative perspective7
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence7
Teachers as national curriculum makers: does involvement equal influence?7
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework7
Teachers and scholars as counterhegemonic intellectuals? Their perspectives on ethnic diversity in textbooks in China6
Mass upper-secondary and tertiary education: the consequences for schooling and the curriculum6
English Language Arts curriculum design and use: pre-service teachers’ perspectives and interpretations6
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?6
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz6
Augmented curriculum: personalizing the curriculum with social-emotional and affective content6
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory6
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity6
A comparative analysis of Foundation and early primary years mathematics curricula: insights from Australia and South Africa6
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism6
Reframing curriculum for religious education6
Mathematics After Reform: Knowledge Economy, Curriculum Change, and Global Dilemmas6
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation6
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement6
List of Reviewers5
How does pre-service teachers’ general pedagogical knowledge develop during university teacher education? Examining the impact of learning opportunities and entry characteristics over five time points5
The curriculum of Frankenstein: or the education of a monster5
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton5
Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship5
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings5
Rethinking curriculum integration: a new materialist perspective5
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study5
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue4
Teaching multicultural history in Finland: the views and practices of history teachers in Finland4
Colourism and indigeneity: the portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in EFL textbooks in Algeria4
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement4
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México4
Life skills education in secondary language classrooms: Empathy, communication and interpersonal relations4
Competence-based curriculum implementation in Africa: a scoping review of pedagogical and assessment practices4
John Dewey and the project method: the covered controversy with William H. Kilpatrick4
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration4
Half a mathematician? How preservice teachers are connected to their studied discipline3
Making the invisible visible: introducing the Pico site of curriculum making at Initial Teacher Education3
Conceptualizing United States democracy: insights from government content standards3
Correction3
Show and tell: scaffolding practices in lower secondary social science classrooms3
The purposes of historical canons in multicultural history education3
A forgotten chapter in the history of Nordic educational theory: J.V. Snellman’s theory of Bildung3
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism: an exploration of teachers’ conceptions of citizenship in Turkey3
Suffering and misery in history is not a tragic story: the ethical education of seeing differences between narratives3
Teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions predicts their levels of stress in primary schools in Germany3
Correction3
The un-hidden curriculum: ethnographic findings on socialization at school entry that challenge the notion of the hidden curriculum2
Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the classroom: Exploring the racial pedagogical decision making of PK-12 teachers2
Teachers’ sense-making and adapting of the national curriculum: a multiple case study in Turkish and Swedish contexts2
Elementary teachers’ agency: the role of perceived professional space and autonomy2
The palimpsests of knowledge2
From entrepreneurship to business & management education. A fundamental curriculum shift or tinkering at the edges?2
Subject didactic knowledge (SDK). A heuristic model based on a theory of functional and personal facets of subject-matter education (SME) and its empirical implications2
Beyond binaries: rethinking student-led civics through culturally relevant, socially bridging, and tactically effective choices2
Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-20192
The importance of teachers’ pedagogical-psychological teaching knowledge for successful teaching and learning2
Examining Charles Darwin’s (Mis)representation within science and history curricula2
Correction2
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England2
Exploring the competency-based approach curriculum in secondary education in Mali with the core players’ experiences2
Competence-Oriented Curricula and the Promotion of Bildung: the example of philosophy teaching in Norway2
Teaching the Holocaust to minoritized students: when is recasting difficult history as redemptive a problem?2
Controversial for whom? Reconsidering controversial issue discussion and deliberation in education for democracy2
Secret, sacred, and cover stories: four rural elementary music teachers’ assessment practices in China2
Five visions of competence-based education and curricula as travelling policies: a systematic research review 1997–20222
Social realism and school history: the role of the historical discipline in substantive knowledge selection2
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 20082
Exploring the association between distributed leadership and student achievement: the mediation role of teacher professional practices and teacher self-efficacy2
Connecting disciplinary knowledge content and students’ lifeworld experience: understanding history teachers as curriculum makers2
On content transformation in the classroom: transdisciplinary perspectives on subject didactic research using didactic case studies2
Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities2
Participation in national curriculum reform - coherence from complexity1
Beyond fragmentation in subject didactics and curriculum studies: consensus and contention in research designs1
Trauma, memory, and dialogic historical education: the case of Israel in 20241
Fostering competence: a narrative case study of developing a two-dimensional curriculum in Denmark1
Integrative teaching and learning: reflections of a complex world in the curricula of primary teacher education programs1
Why is secondary mathematics difficult to learn? Perspectives from in-service teachers and cognitive load theory1
Knowledge without disciplines: a critique of social realism’s disciplinary fixation1
Teacher education effectiveness as an emerging research paradigm: a synthesis of reviews of empirical studies published over three decades (1993–2023)1
Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks1
Repeating and growing patterns in early mathematics textbooks1
(Un)Settling the Black-White Binary: Korean American and Immigrant Youth Navigating Racial Discourse in School Curriculum1
Beyond Deweyian perspective! Applicability of Experience-Based Cyclical Curriculum Design1
The power of exemplarity in religious education1
Construct overlap in cross-national assessment: critical thinking in the teacher education curricula of two countries1
Conceptualizing powerful knowledge in economics1
Correction1
Teaching and learning financial literacy within social studies – a case study on how to realise curricular aims and ambitions1
Imagined communities, social stratifications, and educational responses. Conditions of the possibility to talk about differentiation1
A structural and functional differentiation of knowledge for the history curriculum1
Controversial issues in history teaching1
Teachers transformation of curricula in Swedish adult education and its implications for the purpose of education1
The presence of multiperspectivity and multisource literacy in the writings of student teachers1
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland1
Sinophobia + Sinocentrism— An AsianCrit Analysis of the US Military's Wartime Curricular [Re]racialization of Chinese [Americans]1
Vygotsky’s perezhivanies with Dewey’s occupations: Improving integration of teaching and assessing via creative learning units1
‘So… like I’m responsible for ending war?’: centering anti-war activism in our teaching of war1
Educational reforms and political polarization: competing visions of citizenship education and youth engagement in Poland1
Holocaust education in the post-secular era: Religious-Zionist lessons from the Holocaust1
A framework for curricular analysis of powerful knowledge: comparing school biology in England, Finland and Sweden1
The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong1
School principals as translators – examining Swedish school principals’ translations of the standards-based curriculum1
Exploring student teacher professional agency across two universities in Brazil and Finland1
Expanding secondary schooling sectors [and] seeking for science for all: an Australian case study1
Teacher expectations and ethnic minority students’ second language and foreign language learning1
If images could speak: A social semiotics analysis of gender representation in science textbook images1
Accessibility and specialization in the work of Michael Young1
Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness1
Minding the gaps: the politics of differentiation in Swedish education from 1842 to the 1960s1
Educating youths to be participatory citizens in a democracy? A comparative study of the curriculum Guidelines of senior high school Civics in Japan in 1956–2020s1
Tracing teachers’ change of pedagogical design capacity through professional development1
Place, culture and learning: a review to inform education outside the classroom in Greenland1
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context1
Intersecting shadows: examining the dynamics between formal and shadow curricula in Türkiye1
How to breathe new life into the classroom: exploring practices of teacher artistry1
Collaboration within school social networks: a quantitative analysis of syllabi in Swiss teacher education1
Design and validation of initial diagnostic tests for preservice teachers as a tool for teacher education effectiveness1
Correction1
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