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

Article	Citations
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education	46
‘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’	22
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education	19
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson	18
Teaching evolution in schools: a thin comprehensive liberal approach	14
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman	12
Education for metaphysical animals	12
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world	11
Gender diversities and sex education	11
Towards a conceptualization of computational thinking as situated	11
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises	10
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Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung	10
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion	10
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning	9
A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England	9
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities	9
Consent and mutuality in sex education	8
Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education	8
Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization	8
The topicality of hermeneutics in music education	7
Decolonizing philosophy of education: in the shadow of the Enlightenment?	7
Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?	7
‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative	7
‘What they have made of us’: the educational experience of Bildung in vocational education	7

Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions	6
The spiralling life of Sámi children: whirls of organism and Indigenous relational philosophies	6
Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)	6
When inclusion excludes: liberalism, Confucianism, and the Parkfield Community School protests	6
On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers: a lesson from the Mahabharata	6
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière	6
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing	6
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?	6
Seeing and saying	5
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy	5
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies	5
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university	5
Language games in conversation: the ordinary as a site of criticism	5
Towards a relevant African philosophy of education	5
Against teaching propositional belief in higher education and the World Religions Paradigm	5
Hannah Arendt and the post-truth era: rethinking political education	4
Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World	4
Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher	4
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Walden in Tokyo	4
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)	4
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice	4
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education	4
Back to Socrates: on the significance of analogue pedagogy in the age of content	4
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth	4
Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach	4
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters	4
Stanley Cavell in Caracas: Excerpts from seminars and conversations with Victor J. Krebs and Maria Elena Ramos	4
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education	4
Introduction to the suite: violence against women and girls and the education of voice	4
Enriching and extending the ecological perspective on teacher agency	3
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality	3
Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?	3
Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education	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
Stanley Cavell interviewed by Naoko Saito	3
Crises of acknowledgement: oblique actions and ominous verbs	3
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate	3
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy	3
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching	3
Academic Othering and the problem of I-centred philosophy of teaching	3
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview	3
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective	3
Tillson on religious initiation	3
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education	3
Hitting bedrock: from multiculturalism to political education and self-knowledge	3
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate	3
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods	3
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice	3

The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility	3
Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now	3
Subjects, disciplines, and practices	3
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn	3
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory	3
Distributive values and disadvantaged potential high achievers	3
Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton	3
A different sense of place: care and curation in the university	3
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education	2
The paradox of epistemic ability profiling	2
Does Mills’ epistemology suggest a hermeneutic injustice of White Afroscepticism?	2
‘Your days are over Casanova’: sexual violence, education and the ethics of literature in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace	2
Educating Character Through the Arts	2
Enabling children to learn from religions whilst respecting their rights: against monopolies of influence	2
Can education liberate us? Reframing an old question	2
Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading group	2
The Trickster archetype: education to stupefy	2
Cavell and the thought of other cultures: an introduction	2
Between Butes and the digital player: paradoxes of Eros	2
Introduction to the Suite: Political education for human transformation	2
Creating and sustaining democratic spaces in education	2
Paul Hirst and religious education’s curriculum question: or how Hirst never thought religion was a form of knowledge at all	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
Questioning progress in times of ‘no future’: an editorial introduction to the suite	2
Philosophies of education and their futures in South Africa	2
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children	2
Alternative(s): Better or just different?	2
Epistemic injustice: complicity and promise in education	2
From critical thinking to criticality and back again	2
Pedagogic obligations towards a decolonial and contextually responsive approach to teaching philosophy in South Africa	2
A moral analysis of educational harm and student resistance	2
Epistemic injustice in education: exploring structural approaches, envisioning structural remedies	2
Scholè as suspension: a political project?	2
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism	2
Activity Theory—An Introduction	2
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education	2
The argument from justified curriculum development for teaching philosophy in primary schools	2
Kairos and phronesis in teaching well	2
Correction to ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)	2
Reconsidering ritual in education	2
Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice	2
Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues	2
Finding one’s way: a response to the idea of an education after progress	2
‘Don’t educate me—move me!’ Why we need art and artists (especially films and filmmakers) to love education into existence	2
Protests’ children: reflections on children’s participation in political demonstrations	2
Ignorance: Aesthetic unlearning	2
Reframing inclusion. Analysis of the promises and limitations of Rancière’s work for inclusive education	2
Philosophy as a way of life for children: towards a transformative educational ethos	2
Common sense and critical pedagogy	2
Paul Hirst, liberal education and the postcolonial project	2
Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education	2