OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Irish Educational Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum	45
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study	28
Re-positioning strategies: the positioning challenges of newly appointed school principals	22
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university	19
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs	14
Inclusion of children with disabilities and special educational needs in physical education: an exploratory study of factors associated with Irish teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and school contex	14
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!	13
Parental perspectives on the management of online learning and school readjustment for children with SEN during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and applications for possible school closures	13
Irish primary school teachers’ views on heritage language maintenance in plurilingual pupils	12
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh	12
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models	12
Why are students attending fee-charging second-level schools in Ireland more likely to progress to high-demand university degree courses? Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal survey	11
Same route, different destinations: a cluster analysis of student-teacher types among Palestinian student-teachers living in Israel	10
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?	10
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland	10
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach	10
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency	9
(Un)Confidently aspiring: the perspectives of children from diverse social class, migrant and ethnic minoritised backgrounds about their future careers	9
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning	9
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development	9
How should teacher professional development be designed for curriculum reform? The case of applied mathematics	9
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography	8
Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network	8
Reclaiming Black Irish school narratives: an autoethnographic counter-narrative of unequal schooling	8
Mobilising the untapped in the present: a review and response to Karl Kitching Childhood, religion and school injustice , by Karl Kitching, Cork, Cork University Press,	8

Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland	8
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland	8
The social contexts of educational disadvantage: focus on the neighbourhood	8
Upper primary school children’s attitudes towards STEM: a ‘leaky’ STEM pipeline?	7
The first decade of teachers’ professional lives: a scoping review of research in the Republic of Ireland	7
From foundations to frontiers: 50 years of educational research in Ireland	6
Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality	6
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education	6
Diversifying the teaching profession	6
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges	6
Why teachers matter	6
Editorial	6
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation	6
Foreword	6
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research	6
Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-2021) Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-202	5
The impact of parental involvement on early childhood development: the moderating role of demographic factors	5
‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education	5
Unsupported and unrealistic expectations? Misalignment between teachers’ required knowledge of the law in the Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers and Céim Standards for Initial Teacher Education	5
‘No one knows where we fit in really’: the role of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) in primary school settings in Ireland – the case for a distributed model of leadership to support i	5
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning	5
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid	5
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports	5
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland	5
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools	5
Exploring teacher professional collaboration within the Framework for Junior Cycle in Ireland	5
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme	5
Understanding through stories –the lived experience of students’ mental health difficulties in Irish Higher Education	5
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland	5
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria	5
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective	5
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?	5
No one is going to rock up and tell you ! How a hidden blend of family capitals facilitates access to and success in structured instrumental music education in Ireland	4
Exploring randomised controlled trials in education: key features and selected examples from Ireland	4
An evaluation of the art of science project; an intervention to promote digital storytelling in a cross-curricular (art and science) and cross sectoral (primary and post-primary) environment in Irelan	4
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme	4
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school	4
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors	4
Taming the imposter monster	4
The continuous call for school-university partnerships: a thematic review of policy in the Republic of Ireland	4
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness	4
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring	4
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture	4
Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning , by Yun Wen, Yi-ju Wu, G	4
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people	4
Travelling with comprehensive sexuality education (CSE): critical reflections on the historical geography of the CSE curriculum	4
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background	3
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners	3
Home-school partnership with migrant families: a way forward on the island of Ireland	3
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice	3

FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students	3
Literacy for equitable interprofessional learning: implementation protocol for an online community of practice for Irish teachers and speech and language therapists	3
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development	3
ECCE teachers’ attitudes in Ireland towards including children with special educational needs	3
Guerrilla teacher educators: identity considerations of school-based teacher educators in Ireland	3
Project based learning in post-primary school in Ireland – a narrative literature review of the transition year programme to understand evolving digital spaces	3
SSPAI 1993-2000: a history of the secondary school principals association of Ireland: a key pillar in the foundation of NAPD	3
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective	3
‘What's the magic word?’: mapping oral language interventions implemented in prevention and early intervention programmes	3
‘One of them is the way I think, the other is the way I am’: the lived educational experiences of autistic trans and nonbinary students in the Republic of Ireland	3
Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world: a transnational history	3
Innovation or education? Creating spaces for appearance in initial teacher education	3
Barriers to student engagement:	3
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development	3
The right to human rights education: legal, policy and curricular gaps in Ireland	3
An analysis of Irish mathematics textbook tasks in the context of curriculum change	3
‘We were all sticking with the safe ones’: anti-racism education and Educate Together primary schools in Ireland	3
Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement	3
Leading schools in the face of great adversity	3
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models	2
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods	2
Rethinking early reading intervention policy in Ireland: evaluating the case for moving beyond Reading Recovery?	2
Care and Capitalism	2
Coping with the ‘new (ab)normal’ in school: an EMA study of youth coping with the return to in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education	2
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project	2
Social justice leadership in Irish schools: conceptualisations, supports and barriers	2
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education	2
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning	2
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system	2
Editorial	2
Ireland’s ESD to 2030: second national strategy on education for sustainable development: enough to catalyse sociocultural transformation?	2
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis	2
The primary language curriculum in Ireland: seismic shift or shaky foundations? A critical analysis through the lens of curriculum theory	2
‘I believe that rarely anything is done’: institutional and systemic perspectives on teacher burnout in Croatia	2
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions	2
Let’s talk about class – exploring the everyday emotions and experiences of classism in Irish education: a thematic analysis of Irish Twitter conversations on class and education between 2018 and 2022	2
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland	2
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school	2
A systematic literature review of home-school partnership for learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL): a way forward for the UK and Ireland	2
Education for collective intelligence	2
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design	2
Assets and liabilities for curriculum change: exploring teachers’ perspectives of enacting education outside the classroom	2
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development	2
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education	2
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools	2
Educationally maintained inequality? The role of risk factors and resilience at 9, 13 and 17 in disabled young people’s post-school pathways at 20	1
The roles of teacher autonomy and personal accountability in explaining Turkish teachers’ job satisfaction	1
Exploring school contributors in shaping the educational experiences of adolescent girls during and after pregnancy and perinatal loss	1
Exploring well-being and ill-being in education: disciplinary insights and curriculum perspectives	1
Spaces between importance and enactment: building from teachers’ everyday understanding of, and capacity for, global citizenship education	1
Student engagement in the Irish primary classroom: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage, student voice, and behavioural difficulties	1
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics	1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities	1
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education	1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland	1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice	1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers	1
Evaluation of creative activities prepared with an ethnomathematics approach from the perspective of realistic mathematics education principles	1
Teachers talking drama: perceptions, practices and challenges in Irish primary schools	1
Relationality and recognition: can relational practices in alternative education interrupt narratives of educational disengagement?	1
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change	1
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms	1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm	1
Editorial introduction: re-claiming innovation: advancing critical perspectives in educational research	1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession	1
Internationalization in higher education and research: perspectives, obstacles, alternatives	1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia	1
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education	1
Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland	1
Drama-based methodologies and teachers’ self-efficacy in reading instruction	1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery	1
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career	1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy	1
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools	1
Schools work! (re-) affirming the special supportive role of primary schools in the lives of vulnerable children	1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis	1