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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why the arts are not considered core knowledge in secondary education: a Bernsteinian analysis	50
A cultural turn in educational action and research	23
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland	22
Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession	18
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks	17
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond	16
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam	16
Multi-perspectivity and the risk of perpetration minimisation in Dutch Holocaust and slavery education	14
Differentiating agents , differentiated patients : the production of subjects and knowledge(s) in theorizing differentiation in education	13
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes	13
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa	13
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education	11
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education	11
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’	10
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities	10
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers	9
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform	9
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization	9
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning	9
The racism of Maria Montessori	8
Belonging and participation as portrayed in the curriculum guidelines of five European countries	8
IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP	8
Overwhelming whiteness: a critical analysis of race in a scripted reading curriculum	7
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future	7
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?	7

School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England	7
Bildung: alive and allowed? A critical study of work plan practices in Norwegian schools	6
Fostering mutual understanding through multiperspectivity: insights from 14 cross-border history education initiatives in post-conflict societies	6
Teachers as national curriculum makers: does involvement equal influence?	6
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities	6
“The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies	6
Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies	5
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity	5
Intentional, tacit, contingent: knowledge recontextualization in the official History curriculum - a Critical Discourse Analysis	5
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing	5
Materialities of progressive curriculum reform: a case study of one kindergarten classroom	5
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence	5
Fostering complex historical understandings: a study of Estonian pupils’ epistemic cognition and learning experiences	5
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework	5
Indigenous language curriculum revival: an emancipatory education analysis of Taiwanese Indigenous language policy and textbooks	4
Investigating students’ perceptions concerning textbook use in mathematics: a comparative study of secondary schools between Shanghai and England	4
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz	4
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?	4
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects	4
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism	4
Reinventing character education: the potential for participatory character education using MacIntyre’s ethics	4
Mapping moral consciousness in research on historical consciousness and education - a summative content analysis of 512 research articles published between 1980 and 2020	4
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation	4
Reframing curriculum for religious education	4
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory	4
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement	3
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism: an exploration of teachers’ conceptions of citizenship in Turkey	3
The legitimization of textbook reform: Strategies and challenges in China	3
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study	3
Acknowledgements	3
Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship	3
Caste biases in school textbooks: a case study from Odisha, India	3
Correction	3
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings	3
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton	3
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue	3
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México	3
Half a mathematician? How preservice teachers are connected to their studied discipline	3
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration	3
List of Reviewers	3
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 points	3
Advancing citizenship through language arts education: conceptions of rhetoric in Scandinavian national curricula	3
Conceptualizing United States democracy: insights from government content standards	2
A forgotten chapter in the history of Nordic educational theory: J.V. Snellman’s theory of Bildung	2
Suffering and misery in history is not a tragic story: the ethical education of seeing differences between narratives	2
Life skills education in secondary language classrooms: Empathy, communication and interpersonal relations	2
Show and tell: scaffolding practices in lower secondary social science classrooms	2
The textbook task as a genre	2
Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities	2
The revival of the process model in curriculum design: changes and challenges in the new taiwanese citizenship curriculum	2

Colourism and indigeneity: the portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in EFL textbooks in Algeria	2
Teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions predicts their levels of stress in primary schools in Germany	2
Exploring the competency-based approach curriculum in secondary education in Mali with the core players’ experiences	1
Exploring the association between distributed leadership and student achievement: the mediation role of teacher professional practices and teacher self-efficacy	1
Correction	1
The power of exemplarity in religious education	1
Competence-Oriented Curricula and the Promotion of Bildung: the example of philosophy teaching in Norway	1
Social realism and school history: the role of the historical discipline in substantive knowledge selection	1
From entrepreneurship to business & management education. A fundamental curriculum shift or tinkering at the edges?	1
Five visions of competence-based education and curricula as travelling policies: a systematic research review 1997–2022	1
Conceptualizing powerful knowledge in economics	1
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland	1
Children’s existential questions – recognized in Scandinavian curricula, or not?	1
Examining Charles Darwin’s (Mis)representation within science and history curricula	1
Subject didactic knowledge (SDK). A heuristic model based on a theory of functional and personal facets of subject-matter education (SME) and its empirical implications	1
If images could speak: A social semiotics analysis of gender representation in science textbook images	1
The importance of teachers’ pedagogical-psychological teaching knowledge for successful teaching and learning	1
Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks	1
The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong	1
Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-2019	1
Design and validation of initial diagnostic tests for preservice teachers as a tool for teacher education effectiveness	1
Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the classroom: Exploring the racial pedagogical decision making of PK-12 teachers	1
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 2008	1
Tracing teachers’ change of pedagogical design capacity through professional development	1
Narrative and analytical interplay in history texts: recalibrating the historical recount genre	1
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Bildung theory and educational reform: reconstructing Bildung as a pedagogical concept	1
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England	1
The palimpsests of knowledge	1
(Un)Settling the Black-White Binary: Korean American and Immigrant Youth Navigating Racial Discourse in School Curriculum	1
Students’ resistance to learning mathematics through investigations	1
On content transformation in the classroom: transdisciplinary perspectives on subject didactic research using didactic case studies	1
Teaching Racial History: Enacting Curriculum in Discretionary Spaces	1
Teachers’ sense-making and adapting of the national curriculum: a multiple case study in Turkish and Swedish contexts	1
Holocaust education in the post-secular era: Religious-Zionist lessons from the Holocaust	1
The purposes of historical canons in multicultural history education	1
Construct overlap in cross-national assessment: critical thinking in the teacher education curricula of two countries	1
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context	1
Minding the gaps: the politics of differentiation in Swedish education from 1842 to the 1960s	1
Elementary teachers’ agency: the role of perceived professional space and autonomy	1