OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory Into Practice is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Interest development, self-related information processing, and practice	32
You matter here: The impact of asset-based pedagogies on learning	21
On the material consequences of (digital) literacy: Digital writing with, for, and against racial capitalism	19
An equity framework for family, community, and school partnerships	18
Anti-racism is not an initiative: How professional learning communities may advance equity and social-emotional learning in schools	17
Linguistic policies for African American language speakers: Moving from anti-Blackness to pro-Blackness	17
Learning with immigrant indigenous parents in school and community	15
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	15
Toward collaborative partnerships: Lessons from parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students	14
Digital citizenship with intersectionality lens: Towards participatory democracy driven digital citizenship education	13
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	13
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	13
“Why didn’t I know this?”: Land education as an antidote to settler colonialism in early childhood teacher education	12
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	11
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	10
Internalized racism and the pursuit of cultural relevancy: Decolonizing practices for critical consciousness with preservice teachers of color	9
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	9
Addressing student motivation and learning experiences when taking teaching online	9
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	9
Our legends and journey stories: Exploring culturally sustaining family engagement in classrooms	9
Transforming educator identities and roles in family engagement through critical participatory action research	9
Beyond fake news: Culturally relevant media literacies for a fractured civic landscape	9
Making schools work: An equation for active playful learning	9
Leveraging motivation theory for research and practice with students with learning disabilities	8
Enhancing motivation by developing cyclical self-regulated learning skills	8

Boosting children’s math self-efficacy by enriching their growth mindsets and gender-fair beliefs	8
Interrogating the “gold standard”: Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy	8
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd’s America	7
Is standards-based grading effective?	7
Emergent digital authoring: Playful tinkering with mode, media, and technology	6
Multilingual multiliteracies of Emergent Bilingual families: Transforming teacher’s perspectives on the “literacies” of family engagement	6
A framework for supporting Preservice Teachers (PSTs) in culturally sustaining nonfiction writing	6
The power of askingwhy?: Attribution retraining programs for the classroom teacher	6
Sustaining motivation and academic delay of gratification: Analysis and applications	5
Strategies for alleviating students’ math anxiety: Control-value theory in practice	5
Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable?	5
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	5
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	5
Controversies behind COVID learning loss: Historical issues, current measurements, and future strategies	5
The “what,” “why,” and “when” of using mindfulness in schools: Best practices and guidance for educators and policymakers	4
Evidence-based designs for physically active and playful math learning	4
Co-investigation and co-education in ‘family as faculty’ approaches: A repositioning of power	4
The blue door: A portal to a community of learners	4
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	4
The contribution of social cognitive theory to school bullying research and practice	4
Introduction to the special issue: Homeplace and Black Joy in K-12 education	4
Developing self-efficacy through the social constructivist mentorship	4
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	4
Negotiation, argumentation and participation: Three basic concepts referring to everyday procedures in teaching and learning situations in mathematics classes	4
“Ain’t no white people have to be cultural ambassadors, right?” How a Latinx teacher in the US South resists ephemeral multiculturalism for political praxis	4
A revolutionary love story in teacher education and early childhood education	4
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	4
Dear “good” schools: White supremacy and political education in predominantly white and affluent suburban schools	4
Revealing theory and enhancing practice: The Purdue Problem-Centered Mathematics Curriculum Project	4
Creating spaces for emotional justice in culturally sustaining literacy education: Implications for policy & practice	3
Creating a context for graduate student learning through constructivist inquiry: Introduction to academia as learning through play	3
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	3
Continuing Terry Wood’s legacy of theory informing practice: Inspiring new teachers	3
What really matters in play?	3
Disentangling the possibilities, practicalities, and progressions of writing in the contemporary (digital) era	3
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	3
Blurring the boundaries: Opening and sustaining dialogic spaces	3
Linking arms across districts: Accountability and support in cross-district teacher collaboration	3
Digital writing from the start to the end: Creating a book for a friend	3
Reconceptualizing the teaching and learning of digital writing	3
Tracing the threads of research to establish equitable and culturally appropriate pedagogical practices within mathematical interactions and discourse for all learners	3
Writing the rules: Youth game-making practices as digital writing	3
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	3
Is the value worth the costs?: Examining the experiences of preservice teachers of color in predominantly White colleges of education	2
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	2
Collaborative approaches to enhancing theoretical perspectives and pedagogical insights	2
Digital production on Instagram: Vernacular literacies and challenges to schools	2
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	2
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	2
Addressing pre-service teachers as digital writers: Conflicts and inconsistencies in practice	2

Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Playing the system: Advocacy for play equity in early childhood education	2
Dialogic space as liminal space for love: How one elementary teacher opened doors for widening community and perspective through letter writing	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	2
“Black Girl Magic is everything”: Recommendations for cultivating supportive spaces for Black girls	2
How role models can diversify college students in STEM: A social-cognitive perspective	2
Closing STEM opportunity gaps through critical approaches to teaching and learning for Black youth	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2
The journey from traditional parent involvement to an alliance for empowerment: A paradigm shift	2
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	2
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	2
Lessons from a co-design team on supporting student motivation in middle school science classrooms	2
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	2