OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Curriculum Studies is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A cultural turn in educational action and research	58
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland	25
Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession	23
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks	19
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond	17
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform	16
Differentiating agents , differentiated patients : the production of subjects and knowledge(s) in theorizing differentiation in education	13
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa	13
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education	13
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’	12
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities	12
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes	12
Multi-perspectivity and the risk of perpetration minimisation in Dutch Holocaust and slavery education	11
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization	11
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam	11
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning	11
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education	11
School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England	9
Belonging and participation as portrayed in the curriculum guidelines of five European countries	8
IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP	8
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future	8
The racism of Maria Montessori	8
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?	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

Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies	7
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers	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	6
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing	6
Understanding citizenship education in Morocco: teachers’ beliefs, curriculum constraints, and pedagogical realities	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
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework	5
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity	5
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation	5
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory	5
Mapping moral consciousness in research on historical consciousness and education - a summative content analysis of 512 research articles published between 1980 and 2020	5
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects	5
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?	5
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism	5
Reframing curriculum for religious education	5
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities	5
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence	5
Indigenous language curriculum revival: an emancipatory education analysis of Taiwanese Indigenous language policy and textbooks	5
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement	5
English Language Arts curriculum design and use: pre-service teachers’ perspectives and interpretations	5
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings	4
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study	4
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue	4
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México	4
Reinventing character education: the potential for participatory character education using MacIntyre’s ethics	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
Advancing citizenship through language arts education: conceptions of rhetoric in Scandinavian national curricula	4
Acknowledgements	4
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz	4
List of Reviewers	4
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton	4
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement	4