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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Historical voices for contemporary times: Learning from Black women educational theorists to redesign teaching and teacher education	22
Interest development, self-related information processing, and practice	20
Black womanist teachers’ political clarity in theory and practice	18
An equity framework for family, community, and school partnerships	17
You matter here: The impact of asset-based pedagogies on learning	17
Linguistic policies for African American language speakers: Moving from anti-Blackness to pro-Blackness	15
Conceptualizing a Black Female Teacher Pipeline: From Recruitment to Retention to Retirement	14
I am because we are: (Re)membering Ubuntu in the pedagogy of Black women teachers from Africa to America and back again	14
Learning with immigrant indigenous parents in school and community	13
Anti-racism is not an initiative: How professional learning communities may advance equity and social-emotional learning in schools	13
On the material consequences of (digital) literacy: Digital writing with, for, and against racial capitalism	12
Toward collaborative partnerships: Lessons from parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students	12
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	12
Critical Black women educators: Resisting the racial and ideological marginality of K–12 teaching through critical professional development	12
Digital citizenship with intersectionality lens: Towards participatory democracy driven digital citizenship education	10
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	10
“Why didn’t I know this?”: Land education as an antidote to settler colonialism in early childhood teacher education	10
Transforming educator identities and roles in family engagement through critical participatory action research	9
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	9
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	8
Our legends and journey stories: Exploring culturally sustaining family engagement in classrooms	8
Internalized racism and the pursuit of cultural relevancy: Decolonizing practices for critical consciousness with preservice teachers of color	8
Black teacher: White school	7
Addressing student motivation and learning experiences when taking teaching online	7
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	7

Teaching While Black and Female: Navigating Mental, Curricular, and Professional Aggression	6
Interrogating the “gold standard”: Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy	6
Enhancing motivation by developing cyclical self-regulated learning skills	6
Emergent digital authoring: Playful tinkering with mode, media, and technology	6
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	6
The power of askingwhy?: Attribution retraining programs for the classroom teacher	6
Boosting children’s math self-efficacy by enriching their growth mindsets and gender-fair beliefs	5
Leveraging motivation theory for research and practice with students with learning disabilities	5
A framework for supporting Preservice Teachers (PSTs) in culturally sustaining nonfiction writing	5
Charter-ing a Different Course: A Critical Policy Framework to Support Black Women in Marketized Cities and Schools	5
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	5
Beyond fake news: Culturally relevant media literacies for a fractured civic landscape	5
The “what,” “why,” and “when” of using mindfulness in schools: Best practices and guidance for educators and policymakers	4
A revolutionary love story in teacher education and early childhood education	4
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd’s America	4
Making schools work: An equation for active playful learning	4
Revealing theory and enhancing practice: The Purdue Problem-Centered Mathematics Curriculum Project	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
Special emphasis recruiting: Intentional recruitment of Black women to the teaching profession	4
Controversies behind COVID learning loss: Historical issues, current measurements, and future strategies	4
Present but Unaccounted For: Practical Considerations for the Recruitment and Retention of Black Women Teachers	4
Sustaining motivation and academic delay of gratification: Analysis and applications	4
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	4
The blue door: A portal to a community of learners	4
Strategies for alleviating students’ math anxiety: Control-value theory in practice	4
Evidence-based designs for physically active and playful math learning	3
Developing self-efficacy through the social constructivist mentorship	3
Dear “good” schools: White supremacy and political education in predominantly white and affluent suburban schools	3
Negotiation, argumentation and participation: Three basic concepts referring to everyday procedures in teaching and learning situations in mathematics classes	3
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	3
Multilingual multiliteracies of Emergent Bilingual families: Transforming teacher’s perspectives on the “literacies” of family engagement	3
Continuing Terry Wood’s legacy of theory informing practice: Inspiring new teachers	3
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	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
Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable?	3
Co-investigation and co-education in ‘family as faculty’ approaches: A repositioning of power	3
Is standards-based grading effective?	3
Creating spaces for emotional justice in culturally sustaining literacy education: Implications for policy & practice	3
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	3
Tracing the threads of research to establish equitable and culturally appropriate pedagogical practices within mathematical interactions and discourse for all learners	3
Blurring the boundaries: Opening and sustaining dialogic spaces	2
Writing the rules: Youth game-making practices as digital writing	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
The journey from traditional parent involvement to an alliance for empowerment: A paradigm shift	2
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	2
Is the value worth the costs?: Examining the experiences of preservice teachers of color in predominantly White colleges of education	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Disentangling the possibilities, practicalities, and progressions of writing in the contemporary (digital) era	2

The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	2
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	2
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	2
Affinity groups to build homeplace and cultural humility practices of white school counselors	2
Linking arms across districts: Accountability and support in cross-district teacher collaboration	2
Digital writing from the start to the end: Creating a book for a friend	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
Addressing pre-service teachers as digital writers: Conflicts and inconsistencies in practice	2