OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Philosophy of Education is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education	38
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world	17
‘Pointing the way’: Alex Bloom and A.S. Neill on the enduring necessity and enacted possibility of radical democratic education as ‘a method of life’	17
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion	17
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education	12
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises	11
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson	11
Vocational guidance in general and vocational education schools in Germany: The relevance of informed choice for successful vocational education and the legacy of Aloys Fischer	9
Towards a conceptualization of Computational Thinking as situated	9
Education for metaphysical animals	9
Teaching evolution in schools: a thin comprehensive liberal approach	9
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman	9
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Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?	8
Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung	8
Gender diversities and sex education	8
Consent and mutuality in sex education	7
Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization	7
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning	7
A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England	7
The topicality of hermeneutics in music education	7
‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative	6
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities	6
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Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education	6

Towards a relevant African philosophy of education	6
Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions	6
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière	6
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university	5
On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers: a lesson from the Mahabharata	5
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies	5
Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)	5
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing	5
Seeing and saying	5
The spiralling life of Sámi children: whirls of organism and Indigenous relational philosophies	5
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?	5
Language games in conversation: the ordinary as a site of criticism	5
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education	4
Back to Socrates: on the significance of analogue pedagogy in the age of content	4
Hannah Arendt and the post-truth era: rethinking political education	4
Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach	4
Walden in Tokyo	4
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Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World	4
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy	4
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)	4
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education	4
Stanley Cavell in Caracas: Excerpts from seminars and conversations with Victor J. Krebs and Maria Elena Ramos	4
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters	4
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice	4
Re-reading Kerschensteiner today: Doing VET in German vocational schools—A search for traces	3
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth	3
Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?	3
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice	3
Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education	3
Tillson on religious initiation	3
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview	3
A celebration of the writing and professional work of Paul Hirst: an introduction	3
Autonomy and critique in the goal-oriented university: the paradox of teaching reflexivity	3
Introduction to the suite: violence against women and girls and the education of voice	3
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective	3
Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now	3
The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility	3
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education	3
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn	3
Subjects, disciplines, and practices	3
Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher	3
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory	3
Academic Othering and the problem of I-centred philosophy of teaching	3
A different sense of place: care and curation in the university	3
Stanley Cavell interviewed by Naoko Saito	3
Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education	2
A moral analysis of educational harm and student resistance	2
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching	2
Protests’ children: reflections on children’s participation in political demonstrations	2

Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton	2
Paul Hirst, liberal education and the postcolonial project	2
Correction to ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)	2
Founding German vocational education: Kerschensteiner, Spranger and Fischer as key figures in the classical German VET theory	2
Crises of acknowledgement: oblique actions and ominous verbs	2
Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice	2
Kairos and phronesis in teaching well	2
Reframing inclusion. Analysis of the promises and limitations of Rancière’s work for inclusive education	2
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education	2
Common sense and critical pedagogy	2
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate	2
Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading group	2
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality	2
Paul Hirst and religious education’s curriculum question: or how Hirst never thought religion was a form of knowledge at all	2
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods	2
Reconsidering ritual in education	2
‘Your days are over Casanova’: sexual violence, education and the ethics of literature in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace	2
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children	2
Educating Character Through the Arts	2
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education	2
Questioning progress in times of ‘no future’: an editorial introduction to the suite	2
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy	2
Cavell and the thought of other cultures: an introduction	2
Enriching and extending the ecological perspective on teacher agency	2
Activity Theory—An Introduction	2
Distributive values and disadvantaged potential high achievers	2
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate	2
Creating and sustaining democratic spaces in education	2
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism	2
Hitting bedrock: from multiculturalism to political education and self-knowledge	2
Between Butes and the digital player: paradoxes of Eros	2
Verifying the efficacy of eco-pedagogies during a climate crisis: using Wittgenstein's post-foundationalism in defence of the shallow ground for arts-bas	2
Does Mills’ epistemology suggest a hermeneutic injustice of White Afroscepticism?	2
Corrections for ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Suissa & Sullivan (2021)	2
Introduction to the Suite: Political education for human transformation	2