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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking early indicators of reality shock with the quality of preservice teachers’ pedagogical reasoning	27
Korean adolescents’ profiles of digital citizenship and its relations to internet ethics: implications for critical digital citizenship education	20
Reclaiming professional agency: Portuguese teachers’ experiences amidst managerialist professionalism	20
Making sense of complex relationships in the workplace: principals in action	17
Reporting and measuring English school qualifications: a case study of General Certificate of Secondary Education results in survey and linked administrative data in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	16
How school principals manage teaching to support equity in learning: re-thinking instructional leadership with a social justice lens	14
How do pupil feelings of school safety relate to their attendance and wellbeing? Longitudinal evidence from England	12
The wisdom of Narcissus: Martianus Capella, vanity and learning as a glorification of the self	12
Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)	12
Students drawing conclusions about assessment to inform school change	12
Education and wellbeing beyond growth ism : towards a degrowth approach in school counselling	11
Resourcing linguistic diversity in the classroom: multilingual educational language policy entangled in monolingual ideologies in Nepal	11
Ownership and agency through learner-led design of shared learning spaces: a multi-case study approach	11
School staff’s experiences of supporting students’ social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	10
Exploring AI integration in United Arab Emirates’ teacher education programmes: the voice of educators leading the change	10
Exploring how visible disabilities shape friendship dynamics in school settings	10
Long-term outcomes for students who attend alternative provision schools: analysis of a national dataset at national, regional, local and institutional levels	10
Mapping the landscape of teacher education for inclusive education in Scotland	10
The impact of school climate on teacher enthusiasm: the mediating effect of collective efficacy and teacher self-efficacy	10
Parental involvement and engagement in gender equality and LGBTQI-inclusive education: a case study from Gender Equality Matters in the Irish primary school context	10
A sociocultural exploration of Iranian language teachers’ corrective feedback: why and how?	8
Educating the displaced: inclusive education for Syrian Turkmens in Türkiye	8
Do teachers teach all subjects equally well? Insights from Chinese and English classrooms	8
Correction	8
Parental governmentality in digitally mediated primary education classrooms	8

Rights consciousness, sense of constraint and the reproduction of inequalities: perceptions of rights among pupils of low socioeconomic status who completed a human rights education unit	7
Is agonism an anachronism? In defence of conflict-based theories of democracy in education	7
Classroom management and emotional regulation in Holocaust education: a qualitative video-based single case study in a secondary school	7
Children’s human rights education: conceptual foundations of school students’ learning processes	7
Students’ self-regulated learning strategies and science achievement: exploring the moderating effect of learners’ emotional skills	6
‘He’s actually learning’: an Appreciative Inquiry story of a student with complex learning characteristics	6
Teaching as a corrective experience for self and others: narratives of teachers with ADHD	6
Role-playing as an instructional technique in English as a foreign language and English as a second language settings: a systematic review	5
Lisa Simpson helps us teach (and enjoy) Borges: multimodal scaffolding for the teaching of complex texts	5
Learning at the school–university boundary: college researchers’ and school leaders’ narratives about partnership and the co-generation of knowledge in the UAE	5
‘There for me’: learning from young people about challenges and enablers to continuing education	4
Evaluation of in-service inclusive education teacher mindsets: relationship between beliefs and practices	4
A case study of the mechanism of teachers’ work passion fluctuations in a public experimental elementary school in Taiwan	4
Positioning novice teachers as truth-tellers: how novice teachers can engage in fearless speech and exercise their agency	4
Proxy involvement of Czech parents in education: inner tensions and situational burdens behind decisions to buy private tutoring	4
Identifying teachers’ strengths to face COVID-19: narratives from across the globe	4
The governance, leadership and management of complementary schools: the case of Greek Cypriot schools in England	4
Community language schools: a scoping review of research, 2001 to 2023	4
Personalised Learning and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a conceptual review of definitions, trends and gaps	4
Czech primary school teachers’ experience with the Philosophy for Children (P4C) approach	4
Newly qualified teachers’ highs and lows during the first year of teaching	4
Practical citizenship: how to learn and exercise participation in schools	3
Digitally intensive mothering and unequal emotional work of Chinese mothers	3
Teachers’ experiences with positive education	3
Pedagogical agility in moments of conflict: how a bricolage approach enables the critical promotion of mutual respect and tolerance in the religious education classroom	3
Teacher expectations and equity groups: preservice teacher views from Australia, Sweden and England	3
Pupils’ perceptions of power dynamics in Portuguese schools: do they feel their voices are heard?	3
“Sometimes it feels like we are puppets, here to listen to but not speak”: listening to the voices of young Bangladeshi students about barriers to well-being at school	3
Identity construction and emotions of novice kindergarten teachers under socio-political changes in Hong Kong	3
Refugee women teachers as agents of inclusion: capability expansion and structural challenges in education	3
Exploring the forms of parental involvement for truancy control: a scoping review analysis with stakeholder consultation	3
Beyond the advice manual: a Cavellian philosophy of doctoral writing	3
Writing through wounds: towards a trauma-informed writing centre pedagogy in South African higher education	3
The impact of the Syrian conflict on pre-university education: a political economy analysis through a systematic review of literature	3
The impact of school- and teacher-related factors on teachers’ professional learning	2
Reclaiming teacher leadership as learning leadership	2
Examining the nature and effectiveness of fee-free supplementary tutoring: voices of ‘Robin Hood teachers’ in Kazakhstan	2
Re-engaging incarcerated children and young people with education and learning using authentic inquiry in Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK	2
Student development of social capabilities and life skills: a mixed-methods study from Pakistan	2
The link between perceived academic control, responsibility and the development of reading skills	2
Conceptualisations and implications of ‘newness’ in education outside the classroom	2
Relations between motivation, social and emotional learning (SEL), and English learning achievements in Hong Kong primary schools	2
Mediation and peer support in intercultural contexts: implementation in schools in Ceuta and Melilla (Spain)	2
Towards an explanatory critique of social reality: how critical realism can frame the application of critical discourse analysis in educational research	2
Powerful knowledge, transposition/transformation and ICT: an empirical study across school subjects in primary education	2
Neoliberal values and the UK university undergraduate prospectus	2
Early-career academics’ grappling with multi-dimensional duties in the one-dimensional academic world: a temporal sociological lens	2
Facilitators as actors: exploring power, knowledge and subjectivity in a teacher professional development programme	2
The COVID-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone	2
The power of the norm: how schools interpret, use and disclose education data	1

Can teaching assistants improve attainment and attitudes of low performing pupils in numeracy? Evidence from a large-scale randomised controlled trial	1
Relational ethics of care in research with young people: reflections from a study with young refugees and their families	1
Profiles of social and emotional learning skills in adolescents: a latent profile analysis	1
Citizenship imaginations: igniting young people’s care, critique and citizenship action	1
Navigating shadow education for higher education access in conflict-affected Syria: voices of rural secondary students	1
Educational expansion and inequality of opportunity in Ghana, 1945–1994 cohorts	1
Understanding school stress/distress: moving beyond the functional model of school attendance	1
The role of academic self-concept in post-compulsory achievement, transitions and labour market outcomes	1
Towards a new grammar of schooling: the effects of system-wide implementation of the project-based pedagogy ‘Real-World Learning’ (RWL) on teaching and learning at a Canadian public school board	1
Innovative Learning Environments and spaces of belonging for students with disability in mainstream settings	1
Establishing understanding during student-initiated between-desk instructions in project work	1
Dual roles, dual challenges: a study of teachers’ and students’ experiences across formal and shadow curriculum	1
Schooling on the margins: the problems and possibilities of Montessori schools in Australia	1
The contradictions of legitimation strategies and the welfaring of education	1
Shakespeare’s violence and the use of content warnings in UK secondary schools: what do students think?	1
Do Chinese secondary schools develop global citizens?	1
Decolonising higher education: Black and Minority Ethnic students’ experiences at an elite British university	1
High-ability Aboriginal Australian students’ reasoning about source of effort	1
Hard lessons on racial inequality? A research agenda on ‘difficult knowledge’ in the post-colonial classroom in Europe	1
Understanding literature through perspective-taking: a study of classroom interaction patterns in dialogic settings	1