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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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Teachers’ views on students’ multilingual resources - tracking the impact of curriculum reform	73
Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries	32
The elusive content of children’s human rights education	24
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland	23
Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession	21
A cultural turn in educational action and research	20
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks	19
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa	17
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform	17
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’	15
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education	14
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	14
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes	13
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education	13
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam	12
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond	10
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning	10
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities	10
The racism of Maria Montessori	9
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization	9
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future	9
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers	8
School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England	8
IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP	7

Fostering mutual understanding through multiperspectivity: insights from 14 cross-border history education initiatives in post-conflict societies	7
Materialities of progressive curriculum reform: a case study of one kindergarten classroom	7
Overwhelming whiteness: a critical analysis of race in a scripted reading curriculum	7
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing	7
Understanding citizenship education in Morocco: teachers’ beliefs, curriculum constraints, and pedagogical realities	7
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?	7
Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies	7
Fostering complex historical understandings: a study of Estonian pupils’ epistemic cognition and learning experiences	7
“The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies	7
From powerful knowledge to powerful thinking: On how to empower students through pedagogy and curriculum	6
Powerful knowledge, school subjects and the curriculum: an international and comparative perspective	6
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities	6
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence	6
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity	6
Teachers as national curriculum makers: does involvement equal influence?	6
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework	6
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?	5
Mass upper-secondary and tertiary education: the consequences for schooling and the curriculum	5
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz	5
English Language Arts curriculum design and use: pre-service teachers’ perspectives and interpretations	5
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects	5
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism	5
A comparative analysis of Foundation and early primary years mathematics curricula: insights from Australia and South Africa	5
Teachers and scholars as counterhegemonic intellectuals? Their perspectives on ethnic diversity in textbooks in China	5
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation	5
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement	5
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory	5
Reframing curriculum for religious education	5
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings	4
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue	4
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study	4
List of Reviewers	4
Competence-based curriculum implementation in Africa: a scoping review of pedagogical and assessment practices	4
The curriculum of Frankenstein: or the education of a monster	4
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton	4
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	4
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México	3
Correction	3
Colourism and indigeneity: the portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in EFL textbooks in Algeria	3
Conceptualizing United States democracy: insights from government content standards	3
John Dewey and the project method: the covered controversy with William H. Kilpatrick	3
Half a mathematician? How preservice teachers are connected to their studied discipline	3
Teaching multicultural history in Finland: the views and practices of history teachers in Finland	3
Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship	3
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement	3
Correction	3
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration	3
Teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions predicts their levels of stress in primary schools in Germany	2
Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-2019	2
The importance of teachers’ pedagogical-psychological teaching knowledge for successful teaching and learning	2

Exploring the association between distributed leadership and student achievement: the mediation role of teacher professional practices and teacher self-efficacy	2
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism: an exploration of teachers’ conceptions of citizenship in Turkey	2
Show and tell: scaffolding practices in lower secondary social science classrooms	2
Making the invisible visible: introducing the Pico site of curriculum making at Initial Teacher Education	2
Controversial for whom? Reconsidering controversial issue discussion and deliberation in education for democracy	2
Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities	2
From entrepreneurship to business & management education. A fundamental curriculum shift or tinkering at the edges?	2
Beyond binaries: rethinking student-led civics through culturally relevant, socially bridging, and tactically effective choices	2
Life skills education in secondary language classrooms: Empathy, communication and interpersonal relations	2
The un-hidden curriculum: ethnographic findings on socialization at school entry that challenge the notion of the hidden curriculum	2
Suffering and misery in history is not a tragic story: the ethical education of seeing differences between narratives	2
The purposes of historical canons in multicultural history education	2
Five visions of competence-based education and curricula as travelling policies: a systematic research review 1997–2022	2
Competence-Oriented Curricula and the Promotion of Bildung: the example of philosophy teaching in Norway	2
A forgotten chapter in the history of Nordic educational theory: J.V. Snellman’s theory of Bildung	2
Integrative teaching and learning: reflections of a complex world in the curricula of primary teacher education programs	1
Fostering competence: a narrative case study of developing a two-dimensional curriculum in Denmark	1
Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness	1
Sinophobia + Sinocentrism— An AsianCrit Analysis of the US Military's Wartime Curricular [Re]racialization of Chinese [Americans]	1
Social realism and school history: the role of the historical discipline in substantive knowledge selection	1
The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong	1
Repeating and growing patterns in early mathematics textbooks	1
Holocaust education in the post-secular era: Religious-Zionist lessons from the Holocaust	1
Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks	1
Teaching Racial History: Enacting Curriculum in Discretionary Spaces	1
Teachers transformation of curricula in Swedish adult education and its implications for the purpose of education	1
Elementary teachers’ agency: the role of perceived professional space and autonomy	1
Knowledge without disciplines: a critique of social realism’s disciplinary fixation	1
Exploring the competency-based approach curriculum in secondary education in Mali with the core players’ experiences	1
Beyond Deweyian perspective! Applicability of Experience-Based Cyclical Curriculum Design	1
Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the classroom: Exploring the racial pedagogical decision making of PK-12 teachers	1
Correction	1
Educational reforms and political polarization: competing visions of citizenship education and youth engagement in Poland	1
Educating youths to be participatory citizens in a democracy? A comparative study of the curriculum Guidelines of senior high school Civics in Japan in 1956–2020s	1
A framework for curricular analysis of powerful knowledge: comparing school biology in England, Finland and Sweden	1
Design and validation of initial diagnostic tests for preservice teachers as a tool for teacher education effectiveness	1
Place, culture and learning: a review to inform education outside the classroom in Greenland	1
Construct overlap in cross-national assessment: critical thinking in the teacher education curricula of two countries	1
Intersecting shadows: examining the dynamics between formal and shadow curricula in Türkiye	1
Conceptualizing powerful knowledge in economics	1
Vygotsky’s perezhivanies with Dewey’s occupations: Improving integration of teaching and assessing via creative learning units	1
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 2008	1
Minding the gaps: the politics of differentiation in Swedish education from 1842 to the 1960s	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
Tracing teachers’ change of pedagogical design capacity through professional development	1
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England	1
Beyond fragmentation in subject didactics and curriculum studies: consensus and contention in research designs	1
Secret, sacred, and cover stories: four rural elementary music teachers’ assessment practices in China	1
The palimpsests of knowledge	1
If images could speak: A social semiotics analysis of gender representation in science textbook images	1
Controversial issues in history teaching	1
Teacher education effectiveness as an emerging research paradigm: a synthesis of reviews of empirical studies published over three decades (1993–2023)	1
Correction	1
Exploring student teacher professional agency across two universities in Brazil and Finland	1
‘So… like I’m responsible for ending war?’: centering anti-war activism in our teaching of war	1
The power of exemplarity in religious education	1
Participation in national curriculum reform - coherence from complexity	1
(Un)Settling the Black-White Binary: Korean American and Immigrant Youth Navigating Racial Discourse in School Curriculum	1
School principals as translators – examining Swedish school principals’ translations of the standards-based curriculum	1
Connecting disciplinary knowledge content and students’ lifeworld experience: understanding history teachers as curriculum makers	1
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland	1
Examining Charles Darwin’s (Mis)representation within science and history curricula	1
Correction	1
Teachers’ sense-making and adapting of the national curriculum: a multiple case study in Turkish and Swedish contexts	1
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context	1
On content transformation in the classroom: transdisciplinary perspectives on subject didactic research using didactic case studies	1