OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Research in Social Education is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
TRSE 50^th anniversary call for papers	53
College, career, and civic readiness: Building school communities that prepare youth to thrive as 21^stcentury citizens	20
Combatting violent extremism through our social studies classes *Hate in the homeland: The new global far right* , by Cynthia Miller-Idr	19
Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations	14
Theorizing necropolitics in social studies education	13
Haunted by hope: (Re)tracing the complexities embedded within assemblages of violence	12
We, too, sing America: Preparing a new generation of active citizens	11
Feeling fear as power and oppression: An examination of Black and white fear in Virginia’s U.S. history standards and curriculum framework	10
Principles, pedagogies, and possibilities for revisioning the primary grades curriculum toward social justice and sustainability	10
Reviewer acknowledgments	10
Social citizenship competences at the end of primary school: The role of socio-ethnic classroom diversity and teachers’ citizenship beliefs and practices in the classroom climate	9
Toward becoming: social studies as indeterminate and infinite possibilities *Toward a stranger & more posthuman social studies* , ed	8
Centering power, inequity, and social justice: Possibilities in civic education	8
Standardizing Indigenous erasure: A TribalCrit and QuantCrit analysis of K–12 U.S. civics and government standards	7
Cultivating empathic listening in democratic education	7
Between aspiration and reality: New materialism and social studies education	7
Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	6
Being a good citizen in a postcolonial context: Justice-oriented citizenship implications of Nigerian teachers’ civic education ideologies	5
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	5
Creating possibilities in difficult times: Learning from educators’ reflections on teaching difficult histories	5
“Discussions on another spectrum”: Q pedagogy and high-quality discussions	5
Developing accountability and responsibility: How teacher candidates experience and conceptualize community-based pedagogy in the social studies	5
Black teachers in white spaces: Rupturing reproductions of Anti-Blackness in preservice social studies education	4
Troubling “active”: Elementary teacher candidates’ framing of active vs. passive citizenship	4
Teaching under attack: The dilemmas, goals, and practices of upper-elementary school teachers when dealing with terrorism in class	4

Agency, racism, and what they mean for early childhood and elementary social studies	4
Students’ citizenship competencies: The role of ethnic school composition and perceived teacher support	4
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	4
Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion *Making classroom discussions work: Methods for quality dialogue in the social studies*	3
Learning young children’s civic action and thought through themselves, others, and issues	3
Moral judgment in history education and historical positionality as a moral evaluator	3
Pulling together: Participatory modes and Indigenous roads to enact anticolonial responsibility in social studies research	3
The greatest lie(s) ever told: Rush Limbaugh and the white supremacist blueprint in middle grades historical fiction	3
Centering relational-meaning making and self-understanding	3
Assessing computational thinking in the social studies	3
Precarious statuses and the legal regulation of citizenship: implications for civic education *Civic education in the age of mass migration: Implications for theory and*	3
“Come as you are. We are a family.”: Examining Hip Hop, belonging, and civicness in social studies	3