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

Article	Citations
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study	55
Re-positioning strategies: the positioning challenges of newly appointed school principals	40
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	26
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs	21
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university	16
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum	15
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?	14
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	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
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh	12
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach	12
Are teachers adequately prepared to be informal mental healthcare providers? Secondary teacher perspectives on supporting students with mental health problems in Ireland	12
Irish primary school teachers’ views on heritage language maintenance in plurilingual pupils	12
(Un)Confidently aspiring: the perspectives of children from diverse social class, migrant and ethnic minoritised backgrounds about their future careers	11
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models	11
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland	10
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency	10
How should teacher professional development be designed for curriculum reform? The case of applied mathematics	10
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development	10
Reclaiming Black Irish school narratives: an autoethnographic counter-narrative of unequal schooling	9
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning	9
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland	9
A policy analysis of the primary curriculum framework: implications for curriculum reform in Irish primary education	9
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland	8
Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network	8

From foundations to frontiers: 50 years of educational research in Ireland	8
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography	7
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation	7
The first decade of teachers’ professional lives: a scoping review of research in the Republic of Ireland	7
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges	7
Why teachers matter	6
Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality	6
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective	6
Diversifying the teaching profession	6
‘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	6
Exploring teacher professional collaboration within the Framework for Junior Cycle in Ireland	6
Upper primary school children’s attitudes towards STEM: a ‘leaky’ STEM pipeline?	6
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education	6
Editorial	6
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors	5
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring	5
Travelling with comprehensive sexuality education (CSE): critical reflections on the historical geography of the CSE curriculum	5
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports	5
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria	5
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning	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	5
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme	5
Exploring randomised controlled trials in education: key features and selected examples from Ireland	5
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	5
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research	5
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland	5
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland	5
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid	5
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school	5
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture	5
Taming the imposter monster	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
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools	5
Understanding through stories –the lived experience of students’ mental health difficulties in Irish Higher Education	5
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development	4
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme	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
The continuous call for school-university partnerships: a thematic review of policy in the Republic of Ireland	4
The right to human rights education: legal, policy and curricular gaps in Ireland	4
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness	4
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people	4
Home-school partnership with migrant families: a way forward on the island of Ireland	4
ECCE teachers’ attitudes in Ireland towards including children with special educational needs	4
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development	3
Innovation or education? Creating spaces for appearance in initial teacher education	3
Editorial	3
Literacy for equitable interprofessional learning: implementation protocol for an online community of practice for Irish teachers and speech and language therapists	3
Barriers to student engagement:	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
Guerrilla teacher educators: identity considerations of school-based teacher educators in Ireland	3
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners	3
Ireland’s ESD to 2030: second national strategy on education for sustainable development: enough to catalyse sociocultural transformation?	3
Care and Capitalism	3
Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement	3
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective	3
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice	3
Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world: a transnational history	3
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background	3
Rethinking early reading intervention policy in Ireland: evaluating the case for moving beyond Reading Recovery?	3
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods	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
Learning from employers’ perspectives on transition year work experience	3
FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students	3
‘We were all sticking with the safe ones’: anti-racism education and Educate Together primary schools in Ireland	3
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development	2
Exploring well-being and ill-being in education: disciplinary insights and curriculum perspectives	2
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education	2
‘I believe that rarely anything is done’: institutional and systemic perspectives on teacher burnout in Croatia	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
The primary language curriculum in Ireland: seismic shift or shaky foundations? A critical analysis through the lens of curriculum theory	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
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design	2
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education	2
Spaces between importance and enactment: building from teachers’ everyday understanding of, and capacity for, global citizenship education	2
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project	2
Assets and liabilities for curriculum change: exploring teachers’ perspectives of enacting education outside the classroom	2
Drama-based methodologies and teachers’ self-efficacy in reading instruction	2
Social justice leadership in Irish schools: conceptualisations, supports and barriers	2
What is philosophy of education – its past, present, and future?	2
Linking teacher resistance, agency, and alienation: principal support’s moderating role	2
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools	2
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning	2
Teachers talking drama: perceptions, practices and challenges in Irish primary schools	2
Internationalization in higher education and research: perspectives, obstacles, alternatives	2
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education	2
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions	2
The making of a left-behind class: educational stratification, meritocracy and widening participation	2
Education for collective intelligence	2
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis	2
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland	2
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models	2
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education	2
Exploring school contributors in shaping the educational experiences of adolescent girls during and after pregnancy and perinatal loss	1
Student engagement in the Irish primary classroom: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage, student voice, and behavioural difficulties	1
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change	1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis	1
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education	1
Schools work! (re-) affirming the special supportive role of primary schools in the lives of vulnerable children	1
Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland	1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland	1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers	1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery	1
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics	1
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms	1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm	1
Teachers’ perspectives on Junior Cycle mathematics reform in Ireland	1
Relationality and recognition: can relational practices in alternative education interrupt narratives of educational disengagement?	1
The roles of teacher autonomy and personal accountability in explaining Turkish teachers’ job satisfaction	1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia	1
Editorial introduction: re-claiming innovation: advancing critical perspectives in educational research	1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy	1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities	1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession	1
Evaluation of creative activities prepared with an ethnomathematics approach from the perspective of realistic mathematics education principles	1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice	1