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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Re-positioning strategies: the positioning challenges of newly appointed school principals	50
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study	37
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	21
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum	18
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university	15
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs	14
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach	14
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh	14
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models	13
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!	12
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	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	12
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?	11
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency	10
Same route, different destinations: a cluster analysis of student-teacher types among Palestinian student-teachers living in Israel	10
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland	9
Competition within a multi-campus, merged university – a zero-sum game?	9
The social contexts of educational disadvantage: focus on the neighbourhood	9
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland	9
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development	9
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning	8
Supporting early career teachers’ digital agency: a role for mentorship?	8
Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality	7
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography	7
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,	7

Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network	7
Reclaiming black Irish school narratives: an autoethnographic counter-narrative of unequal schooling	7
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges	7
Foreword	7
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland	7
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation	7
Diversifying the teaching profession	6
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	6
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland	6
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria	6
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools	6
Why teachers matter	6
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education	6
Editorial	6
Exploring randomised controlled trials in education: key features and selected examples from Ireland	5
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports	5
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective	5
‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education	5
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research	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
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?	5
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland	5
The impact of parental involvement on early childhood development: the moderating role of demographic factors	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
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture	4
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring	4
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness	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
Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning , by Yun Wen, Yi-ju Wu, G	4
Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–1968	4
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid	4
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme	4
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	4
Taming the imposter monster	4
Project based learning in post-primary school in Ireland – a narrative literature review of the transition year programme to understand evolving digital spaces	4
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme	4
Understanding through stories –the lived experience of students’ mental health difficulties in Irish Higher Education	4
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school	4
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning	4
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors	4
The continuous call for school-university partnerships: a thematic review of policy in the Republic of Ireland	4
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people	4
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development	4
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	3
A scoping review of Future Skills frameworks	3
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective	3
Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement	3
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background	3
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice	3
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners	3

Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world: a transnational history	3
Literacy for equitable interprofessional learning: implementation protocol for an online community of practice for Irish teachers and speech and language therapists	3
An analysis of Irish mathematics textbook tasks in the context of curriculum change	3
SSPAI 1993-2000: a history of the secondary school principals association of Ireland: a key pillar in the foundation of NAPD	3
Teachers’ understanding of the concept of ‘embedding’ digital technology in education	3
‘What's the magic word?’: mapping oral language interventions implemented in prevention and early intervention programmes	3
Leading schools in the face of great adversity	3
Ireland’s ESD to 2030: second national strategy on education for sustainable development: enough to catalyse sociocultural transformation?	3
FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students	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
Barriers to student engagement:	3
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development	3
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project	2
Teachers talking drama: perceptions, practices and challenges in Irish primary schools	2
Lockdown lessons learned. Reconceptualising a Sociology of Education module in ITE using a TPACKframework, optimising pedagogy, enhancing student outcomes through the provision of inclusive and access	2
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis	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
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design	2
Editorial	2
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland	2
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development	2
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education	2
Ethno-cultural diversity in initial teacher education courses: the case of Ireland	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
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning	2
Digital education futures: design for doing education differently	2
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods	2
Education for collective intelligence	2
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school	2
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education	2
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions	2
Editorial	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
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system	2
Care and Capitalism	2
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models	2
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools	2
Interpreting, translating, and embedding school curriculum in physical education teacher education: the need for collective action within and across the teacher education continuum	1
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics	1
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms	1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy	1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession	1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers	1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice	1
Spaces between importance and enactment: building from teachers’ everyday understanding of, and capacity for, global citizenship education	1
Gendered expectations on the recognition of ADHD in young women and educational implications	1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery	1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm	1
Teaching vocation or religious vocation: examining the changing identity of Irish teaching sisters c.1940–1970, an oral history approach	1
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change	1
Assessing the perceived effectiveness of a Montessori-influenced trauma-informed practice (TIP) programme for contemporary early childhood teachers	1
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education	1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis	1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia	1
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
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education	1
Teachers as media creators and prosumers: exploring the reasons & values behind their YouTube pedagogical activity	1
Exploring well-being and ill-being in education: disciplinary insights and curriculum perspectives	1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities	1
Promoting academic resilience in DEIS schools	1
Purpose, focus and voice? Lessons from a curriculum development advisory committee	1
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career	1
Student engagement in the Irish primary classroom: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage, student voice, and behavioural difficulties	1
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools	1
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools – the Trinity Access approach	1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland	1
Evaluation of creative activities prepared with an ethnomathematics approach from the perspective of realistic mathematics education principles	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
Relationality and recognition: can relational practices in alternative education interrupt narratives of educational disengagement?	1