OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Journal of 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Establishing understanding during student-initiated between-desk instructions in project work	61
Students’ self-regulated learning strategies and science achievement: exploring the moderating effect of learners’ emotional skills	37
Educative mentoring in sport coaching: a reciprocal learning process	21
‘I was involved as an equal member of the community’: how pedagogical partnership can foster a sense of belonging in Black, female students	18
The governance, leadership and management of complementary schools: the case of Greek Cypriot schools in England	18
Innovative Learning Environments and spaces of belonging for students with disability in mainstream settings	16
Community language schools: a scoping review of research, 2001 to 2023	14
Reflecting on teaching in low SES areas during COVID-19: an Australian experience	13
By nature, a social animal: an exploration of perceptions of online group work	12
Recontextualising powerful knowledge within an ‘organic unity’ of vertical and horizontal knowledge	11
Citizenship imaginations: igniting young people’s care, critique and citizenship action	11
Silent or silenced? Minority ethnic students and the battle against racism	10
Cultural capital and habitus in the field of higher education: academic and social adaptation of rural students in four elite universities in Shanghai, China	10
Integrating phenomenography with discourse analysis to study Hong Kong prospective teachers’ conceptions of curriculum leadership	10
Learning to Live Together Harmoniously: a conceptual framework	8
‘He’s actually learning’: an Appreciative Inquiry story of a student with complex learning characteristics	8
Korean adolescents’ profiles of digital citizenship and its relations to internet ethics: implications for critical digital citizenship education	8
Conceptualisations and implications of ‘newness’ in education outside the classroom	8
Child participatory research methods: exploring grade 6 pupils’ experiences of private tutoring in Kazakhstan	7
Incivility: the new type of bullying in higher education	7
Patterns of postgraduate transitions amongst care-experienced graduates in the United Kingdom	7
Pre-service teachers’ experiences, interests and confidence in teaching Humanities and Social Sciences	6
Neoliberal values and the UK university undergraduate prospectus	6
Responding to a cry in the wilderness: teachers’ perceptions of teaching the Apprentice of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and its impact on the signature pedagogies of English	6
Musical improvisation for college students: personal creativity and thinking skills	6

Preparing pre-service teachers to teach with information technology: mapping knowledge patterns in what is included and omitted in Ghana	5
Constructing causal maps and the effect of prior knowledge and causal reasoning process on the quality of causal maps: a study on primary school students	5
Relations between motivation, social and emotional learning (SEL), and English learning achievements in Hong Kong primary schools	5
Love, care, and solidarity: understanding the emotional and affective labour of school leadership	5
Do Chinese secondary schools develop global citizens?	5
Indigenous youth wellbeing in higher education: a systematic literature review of qualitative studies	5
Powerful knowledge, transposition/transformation and ICT: an empirical study across school subjects in primary education	4
Making sense of complex relationships in the workplace: principals in action	4
Parents’ views on gay male teachers in early childhood education	4
Students drawing conclusions about assessment to inform school change	4
Theoretical contributions to the investigation of educational effectiveness: towards a dilemmatic approach	4
‘I lost the faith in humanity.’ Using William Golding’sLord of the Fliesto explore ethical and moral issues through transnational, online literary exchange	4
Endogenous assets-mapping: a new approach to conceptualizing assets in order to understand young people’s capabilities and how these relate to their desired educational outcomes in disadvantaged neigh	4
Pastoral care as shared responsibility: teachers’ perspectives in a private teaching college in Hong Kong	4
Decolonising higher education: Black and Minority Ethnic students’ experiences at an elite British university	4
Towards an explanatory critique of social reality: how critical realism can frame the application of critical discourse analysis in educational research	4
Collateral human rights learning situations: what are they?	3
Different fiction genres take children’s memories to different places	3
Teachers’ experiences of transformative professional learning to narrow the values practice gap related to inclusive practice	3
Finding and using students’ funds of knowledge and identity in superdiverse primary schools: a collaborative action research project	3
Does attending an English private school benefit mental health and life satisfaction? From adolescence to adulthood	3
Academic practice and public engagement through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s public sphere of action	3
Conceptions of assessment in pre-service teachers’ narratives of students’ failure	3
The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?	3
In-class ‘ability’-grouping, teacher judgements and children’s mathematics self-concept: evidence from primary-aged girls and boys in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	2
Definition and characteristic features of a ‘cultural flashpoint’: a case study of Exploring Masculinities, a controversial gender and education programme in Ireland	2
‘We’re just touching the surface’: Australian university lecturers’ experiences of teaching theories of child development in early childhood teacher education programs	2
Czech primary school teachers’ experience with the Philosophy for Children (P4C) approach	2
Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)	2
Practical citizenship: how to learn and exercise participation in schools	2
Evaluation of in-service inclusive education teacher mindsets: relationship between beliefs and practices	2
Ownership and agency through learner-led design of shared learning spaces: a multi-case study approach	2
Multisensory experiences with and of food: representing taste visually and verbally during food ateliers in a Reggio Emilia perspective	2
Ethics, values and Values Based Practice in educational psychology	2
Re-engaging incarcerated children and young people with education and learning using authentic inquiry in Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK	2
Managing cognitive dissonance in art teacher education	2
‘How come they struggle with such simple work?’: parents’ perceptions of language teacher identity and teaching practice	2
Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring	2
‘We are people, you know’: children’s views on the use of video recordings in the EFL class	2
A review of the English school meal: ‘progress or a recipe for disaster’?	2
Identifying teachers’ strengths to face COVID-19: narratives from across the globe	2
Reading for digital futures: a lens to consider social justice issues in student literacy experiences in the digital age	2
Cracking the code: exploring student attitudes towards coding in secondary education	2
‘There for me’: learning from young people about challenges and enablers to continuing education	2
Towards just futures: a capabilitarian approach to transforming undergraduate learning outcomes	1
Becoming a teacher leader: capital acquisition and accumulation	1
By design or by accident: the legacy of Thailand’s 1999 education reform and the cultural consequences of internationalization	1
From practicum to the second year of teaching: examining novice teacher identity reconstruction	1
Diversity, difference, equity: how student differences are socially constructed in Singapore	1
Agency and hysteresis encounters: understanding the international education experiences of Japanese students in Australian universities	1

Mapping the quality of teacher–pupil interactions in lessons with and without the use of tablets during a typical school day in first grade	1
The COVID-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone	1
Structural barriers and processes of defunding of funds of identity of refugee-background children	1
Market-based parental involvement: impact of networks of middle-class mothers in the education marketplace	1
Measuring ethnic school segregation within local educational markets in England	1
‘I just want to feel like I’m part of everyone else’: how schools unintentionally contribute to the isolation of students who identify as LGBT+	1
Parental involvement and engagement in gender equality and LGBTQI-inclusive education: a case study from Gender Equality Matters in the Irish primary school context	1
And then there were three: (re-)distributing educational responsibilities in response to the growing use of shadow education in the Netherlands	1
Teachers’ experiences with positive education	1
Investigating the mediating effects of professional learning communities on the relationship between leadership practices and teacher collective efficacy: a perspective of Chinese principals	1
Democratic citizenship, critical literacy and educational policy in England: a conceptual paradox?	1
Unpacking the black box of a mature student’s processes of social engagement: focusing on reflexivity, structure and agency	1
Mental health, identity and informal education opportunities for adolescents with experience of living in state care: a role for digital storytelling	1