OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory and Research in Social Education 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From the editorial team	48
Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations	28
Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions	26
Pulling together: Participatory modes and Indigenous roads to enact anticolonial responsibility in social studies research	25
Troubling “active”: Elementary teacher candidates’ framing of active vs. passive citizenship	25
Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan	24
Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach	23
Eugenic ideology and the world history curriculum: How eugenic beliefs structure narratives of development and modernity	19
Financial citizenship education and the elusive power of critical inquiry	17
The Nakba in Israeli history education: Ethical judgments in an ongoing conflict	15
Between maintaining teacher impartiality and protecting student dignity: Teachers’ responses to unacceptable student speech about politically sensitive issues in France and Quebec	14
“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada	14
“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches	12
We’ve always dreamed of our freedom: Anti-Blackness, young people’s power, and visions for a more just world	9
Embracing the interdisciplinary nature of psychology: Challenging the increasing dismissiveness of high school psychology as a social studies course	9
Diving into elementary social studies instruction: What teachers report is happening	9
A pivotal read for a populist moment Political education in times of populism: Towards a radical democratic education , by Edda Sant, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave-Macmill	8
The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions	8
How do the Chinese Gaokao tests narrate the history of other countries? A textual analysis of “the other” in official representations of history	8
Refining criteria for civic inquiry: An analysis of inquiry design model lessons	8
Imparting truths and yielding critical reflections in social studies classrooms	8
Reproducing religious hegemony: An analysis of religion in secondary history standards	8
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	7
Radical futures through organized (re)membering	7
Precarious statuses and the legal regulation of citizenship: implications for civic education	7

Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	7
Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion *Making classroom discussions work: Methods for quality dialogue in the social studies*	7
List of Reviewers for October 1, 2024–October 1, 2025	7
Reviewer Acknowledgements	6
Civic and citizenship education in context: The influence of IEA studies on national curricula	6
From criticality to shame: Childhood memories of social class and how they matter to elementary school teachers and teaching	6
Theorizing mimesis across social studies contexts of mimicry, imitation, and simulation	5
“Conversation is everything”: How teachers and students create environments where open discussion can thrive	5
Toward a framework for assessing the quality of students’ social scientific reasoning	5
(Un)critical geographies of race: A critical race discourse analysis of an online local history resource	5
What has changed in social studies education? Racial literacy scholarship as enactments of hope for social studies education Racial lite	5
Civic education in informal settings: Black voluntary associations as schools for democracy, 1898-1959	4
“There’s something wrong in society”: Teaching for racial civic literacy using young adult fiction	4
Youth participatory action research in your classroom: Teaching and learning for active citizenship	4
“If they were white and middle class”: The possessive investment in whiteness in U.S. History textbooks’ portrayal of 20th-century social democratic reforms	3
Developing accountability and responsibility: How teacher candidates experience and conceptualize community-based pedagogy in the social studies	3
Teaching through crisis: U.S. teachers’ experiences in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election	3
Deconstructing our imperialist history *How to hide an empire: A history of the greater United States* , by D. Immerwahr, Picador, 2020,	3
Reviewer acknowledgments	3
Courageously, creatively, and collectively mapping (re)new(ed) paths forward: Mobilizing theory-stories to imagine potentials for social studies education	3
Navigating “big feelings” in teaching and learning difficult histories: Pedagogical reasoning about students’ emotional potentialities	3
Toward a more empathic, connected, and humanizing democracy: A civics curriculum centering listening and storytelling	3
What is the word “difficult” doing in social studies research?: A systematic literature review of empirical research on difficult knowledges and histories, 2004–2022	2
Developing a better understating of the pedagogical value and potential of global events	2
What kind of affective citizen? An analysis of state social emotional learning standards	2
“Algunas personas aquí han venido con coyote como Areli?”: Conceptualizing the Latine civic counternarrative through diverse children’s literature	2
U.S. history state assessment items: Exploring the income–achievement gap and levels of academic language, historical thinking, and historical literacy demand	2
Teaching young people more than “how to survive austerity”: From traditional financial literacy to critical economic literacy education	2
Resisting oversimplification in pursuit of nuanced learning	2
“Like someone’s got you”: External supports for youth activists and intersectional justice	2
Beyond grits and sweet tea: Understanding the complexities of teaching & learning in the U.S. South	2
What do social studies methods instructors know and do? Teacher educators’ PCK for facilitating historical discussions	2
The meaning of citizenship: Identifying the beliefs of teachers responsible for citizenship education in Chile	1
Creating possibilities in difficult times: Learning from educators’ reflections on teaching difficult histories	1
Virtual reality for the promotion of historical empathy: A mixed-methods analysis	1
Preservice social studies teachers encounter Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series : The pedagogical potential of art to teach Black history and migration	1
Combatting violent extremism through our social studies classes *Hate in the homeland: The new global far right* , by Cynthia Miller-Idr	1
Inquiry-based and culturally responsive learning opportunities in social studies: A panel study of their relationships to civic development	1
Being a good citizen in a postcolonial context: Justice-oriented citizenship implications of Nigerian teachers’ civic education ideologies	1
“Come as you are. We are a family.”: Examining Hip Hop, belonging, and civicness in social studies	1
History as an untold story within a story: Confronting the myth of “a nation of immigrants”	1
Embracing queer: Possibilities for gender and sexuality expansiveness in history education	1
Untangling the web of climate denial How to confront climate denial: Literacy, social studies, and climate change , by James S. Damico & Mark C. Baildon, New York, N	1
“I was in the room where it happens”: Educator agency and community within state social studies standards committees	1