Theory and Research in Social Education

Papers
(The TQCC of Theory and Research in Social Education is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
TRSE 50th anniversary call for papers34
Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations23
Agency, racism, and what they mean for early childhood and elementary social studies19
Pulling together: Participatory modes and Indigenous roads to enact anticolonial responsibility in social studies research18
Troubling “active”: Elementary teacher candidates’ framing of active vs. passive citizenship17
Students’ prejudice as a teaching challenge: How European history educators deal with controversial and sensitive issues in a climate of political polarization16
Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions16
Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach13
Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan13
Eugenic ideology and the world history curriculum: How eugenic beliefs structure narratives of development and modernity12
“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada12
Financial citizenship education and the elusive power of critical inquiry11
The Nakba in Israeli history education: Ethical judgments in an ongoing conflict10
We’ve always dreamed of our freedom: Anti-Blackness, young people’s power, and visions for a more just world9
Reviewer acknowledgments9
“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches9
Diving into elementary social studies instruction: What teachers report is happening7
Imparting truths and yielding critical reflections in social studies classrooms7
The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions7
Embracing the interdisciplinary nature of psychology: Challenging the increasing dismissiveness of high school psychology as a social studies course7
How do the Chinese Gaokao tests narrate the history of other countries? A textual analysis of “the other” in official representations of history6
A pivotal read for a populist moment Political education in times of populism: Towards a radical democratic education , by Edda Sant, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave-Macmill6
We, too, sing America: Preparing a new generation of active citizens5
Haunted by hope: (Re)tracing the complexities embedded within assemblages of violence5
Radical futures through organized (re)membering5
Refining criteria for civic inquiry: An analysis of inquiry design model lessons5
Centering power, inequity, and social justice: Possibilities in civic education5
Principles, pedagogies, and possibilities for revisioning the primary grades curriculum toward social justice and sustainability5
Precarious statuses and the legal regulation of citizenship: implications for civic education4
“We will continue our struggle for success”: French Canadian students, narrative, and historical consciousness4
(Un)critical geographies of race: A critical race discourse analysis of an online local history resource4
Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics4
Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion Making classroom discussions work: Methods for quality dialogue in the social studies 4
From criticality to shame: Childhood memories of social class and how they matter to elementary school teachers and teaching4
Becoming activists for racial justice: A renewed purpose for learning about the past in K–12 education4
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges4
Reviewer Acknowledgements4
Civic and citizenship education in context: The influence of IEA studies on national curricula4
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