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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Standardizing Indigenous erasure: A TribalCrit and QuantCrit analysis of K–12 U.S. civics and government standards	53
The making of global Black anti-citizen/citizenship: Situating BlackCrit in global citizenship research and theory	35
Feeling fear as power and oppression: An examination of Black and white fear in Virginia’s U.S. history standards and curriculum framework	20
Cultivating empathic listening in democratic education	19
Engaging with issues of death, loss, and grief in elementary school: Teachers’ perceptions and affective experiences of an in-service training program on death education in Cyprus	16
Visualizing the teaching of data visualizations in social studies: A study of teachers’ data literacy practices, beliefs, and knowledge	15
Imagining and teaching citizenship as non-citizens: Migrant social studies teachers’ positionalities and citizenship education in turbulent times	14
History is critical: Addressing the false dichotomy between historical inquiry and criticality	13
The disciplinary and critical divide in social studies teacher education research: A review of the literature from 2009–2019	12
“Sound” civics, heard histories: A critical case of young children mobilizing digital media to write (right) injustice	11
“There’s no way we can teach all of this”: Factors that influence secondary history teachers’ content choices	11
Rethinking presentism in history education	10
Deliberation can wait: How civic litigation makes inquiry critical	10
“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches	10
Seizing the moment: A critical place-based partnership for antiracist elementary social studies teacher education	8
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	8
Teaching young people more than “how to survive austerity”: From traditional financial literacy to critical economic literacy education	8
What do social studies methods instructors know and do? Teacher educators’ PCK for facilitating historical discussions	7
Virtual reality for the promotion of historical empathy: A mixed-methods analysis	7
“Technology inevitably involves trade-offs”: The framing of technology in social studies standards	7
Toward critically compassionate financial literacy: How elementary preservice teachers view the standards	6
Students’ prejudice as a teaching challenge: How European history educators deal with controversial and sensitive issues in a climate of political polarization	6
Becoming “Hijas de laLucha”: Political subjectification, affective intensities, and historical narratives in a Chilean all-girls high school	6
Between aspiration and reality: New materialism and social studies education	5
“This is for us, not them”: Troubling adultism through a pedagogy of solidarity in youth organizing and activism	5

Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	5
“But it wasn’t like that”: The impact of visits to community-based museums on young people’s understanding of the commemorated past in a divided society	5
Why teachers address unplanned controversial issues in the classroom	5
Five years later: How the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the #MeToo movement impacted feminist social studies teachers	4
Teaching for citizenship: Instructional practices and open classroom climate	4
“What is slavery?”: Third-grade students’ sensemaking about enslavement through historical inquiry	4
Assessing computational thinking in the social studies	4
Maneuvering through undocumented and documented status: Liminal legality and civic education of a migrant social studies teacher	4
Bridge or byway? Teaching historical reading and civic online reasoning in a U.S. history class	4
Toward a framework for assessing the quality of students’ social scientific reasoning	3
Teaching under attack: The dilemmas, goals, and practices of upper-elementary school teachers when dealing with terrorism in class	3
College, career, and civic readiness: Building school communities that prepare youth to thrive as 21^stcentury citizens	3
Representations of war: A cross-national comparative analysis of the Vietnam War in high school history standards	3
Theorizing necropolitics in social studies education	3
Students’ citizenship competencies: The role of ethnic school composition and perceived teacher support	3
Aspiring nepantleras: Conceptualizing social studies education from the rupture/la herida abierta	3
“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
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	3