OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Gender and Education 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution	65
Manifestations of neoliberal feminism in U.S. teacher lactation behaviours	22
Assessment regimes, data, gender haunting, and health education	21
The girl (w)hole: a genealogy of elite boys’ school alumni’s encounters with feminine gender	19
Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans	18
Confidence culture in neoliberal academia: the case of #Womeninacademia on Twitter	18
Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi	15
She is so (post)human : doctoral students’ perceptions of response-ability of their becoming-supervisors through caring/careful practices	15
Institutional transphobia: barriers to transgender research in early years education	14
Care as concubine: stretching the boundaries of care, politics and power in early childhood education and care	13
Policing Black femininity: the hypercriminalization of Black girls in an urban school	12
Research prACTivisms – a methodology for a-more-than-educational-academic knowledge production	12
Education as an arena for anti-feminism: devaluation of femininity in primary education	12
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan	11
Boundary-less and care-full: women academics' perception and negotiation of work-life domains during the COVID-19 work from home era at an Australian regional university	10
Black college women’s lived memories of racialization in predominantly white educational spaces: I’m Black, I´m a migrant, I’m a woman, so what?	10
Intersectional cognitive schemas of diversity and inclusion in higher education	10
Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement	10
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning	9
Toward trans-assemblage thinking: becoming a transnational scholar through posthuman autoethnography	9
Belonging, caring, and community building across the borders: transnational feminist citizenship pedagogies of a migrant teacher	9
Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators	9
‘They trusted me, even if I’m a tom like this’: exploring sexual-professional identity communication of LGBTQ+ primary schoolteachers	9
Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy	9
Neo-fascist anti-gender education	8

The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK	8
Women academics’ motivation for higher education and empowerment: a qualitative case study in Pakistan	8
Medical fetishism in education: gendering the ‘clinical’ metaphor	8
Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality education classroom: what might queer joy praxis offer?	7
Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research	7
Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities	6
‘Elementary teachers aren’t good at maths’: gendered discourses and performative acts in U.S. mathematics teacher education	6
Caring as a girl: a feminist new materialism approach to the learning of care within the family in Finland	6
Capturing love in mothers’ food care: towards a new typology of maternal love	6
‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2	6
The minor gestures of diversity work: experiences of women scientists in Danish STEM academia	6
Care as a response to sexual and gender-related violence in Catalan universities: policy and institutional challenges	6
Gender transformative education as explained by youth feminist activists	5
Finnish teachers as (de)constructors of the binary-gendered ideals of the teaching profession	5
Gender representation in journalism education: a systematic literature review	5
‘It’s High School. Everybody gone judge yuh’: school as a social world where Afro-Caribbean girlhood experiences are created	5
Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: ‘The program is not about turning boys into girls’	5
Chopping carrots and becoming ‘real’ men: Uzbek boys, household work and the reproduction of masculinities in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	5
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism: working beyond binaries in environmental education	5
Programmes for boys and men: possibilities for gender transformation	5
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence	5
‘ This thing that we do’ : in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis	5
Hypervisibility and erasure: parents’ accounts of transgender children in early childhood education and care and primary schools	4
Facilitators and barriers to trans women’s educational trajectories in the Chilean school system: a narrative biographical study	4
If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through affirmative ethics	4
Looking out, looking in: transformative feminist pedagogies in the Caribbean	4
Norwegian polyamorous families and their experiences of kindergarten: a narrative inquiry	4
Interrogating the promise of ‘inclusivity’ for LGBTQ+ lives in primary schools	4
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey	4
Towards a feminist praxis and pedagogy in higher education: knowledge-building and social action in Pakistan	4
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education	4
‘No, she can’t be the hulk!’: critically exploring opposition to Swedish preschools’ gender equality work and preschool teachers’ responses to it	4
Inherited futures: education as a gift among Gurkha women in post-1990 Nepal	4
The negotiations of Pakistani mothers’ agency with structure: towards a research practice of hearing ‘silences’as a strategy	4
‘Seeking a break from home’: investigating women’s college experiences in rural Mewat, India	4
Intersectionality, neoliberal meritocracy and the lived experiences of African first-generation women students in STEM in South African universities	4
What do we mean by a whole-school approach to gender-related violence prevention? A critical exploration of existing models	4
Beyond the Global North: evidence on ‘manfluencers’, social media and gender norms among adolescent boys from a global literature review and mixed-methods research across six states in Mexico	4
‘I can build Beyblades, but I won’t do it!’. The importance of feminist perspectives within STEM in ECTE	4
From ‘villains’ to ‘idols’: exploring teenage boys’ conflicting attachments to manospheric masculinities	4
From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women	3
Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools	3
Arachne, self-care and ‘power-nets’ on women’s self-development programmes	3
Exploring bias in artificial intelligence: stereotypes and gendered narratives in digital imagery of early childhood educators	3
Preservice teachers disrupting contemporary patriarchal masculinities: obstacles to social justice teaching and learning	3
An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism	3
Culture, complaint and confidentiality: an autoethnographic exploration of sexual harassment	3
Love is (not) love? exploring Chinese university teachers’ agency in translating rainbow works	3
Hair-ing and haring: post (auto) theoretical more-than-human entanglement with hair/her/stories of Muslim schoolgirls	3
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia	3

Gender-related violence in Australian and UK universities	3
Admining beyond certainty: generating new educational imaginaries through more-than-faculty roles	3
Laughing off modernity into a Daoist movement in a college classroom in China: a decolonial and feminist materialist unpacking	3
Navigating identity performance, activism and visibility in a hostile context: the life story of a non-binary Kenyan student	3
‘What is gender to you?’: An Africana Womanist take on perceptions of gender reality on women’s agency among a rural Malawian Community	3
A charge to keep I have: Black women teachers’ spirituality and the implications for educational leadership	3
Response-able study: sketching ecologies for collective, affective and speculative practices in higher education	3
Negotiating co-existing subjectivities: the new maternal self in the academy	3
‘Like putting a puzzle piece in the wrong spot’: Transgender and non-binary experiences of physical education	3
Collaboratively reimagining higher education: enacting posthuman feminist practices	3
Indigenous cosmologies and black onto-epistemologies in gender and education	3
The Andrew Tate effect: a hidden curriculum of manosphere ideology in secondary schools	3
The impact of gender-sensitive career counselling on the self-perception of Brazilian women in STEM	2
Editorial: Feminism(s) and the ‘posts’: towards new educational imaginaries and hope-full renewals	2
Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies	2
The cultural politics of emotion and mothers’ responsibility for school choice	2
Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice	2
Black girl play: a praxis for being human	2
Examining the gendered timescapes of higher education: reflections through letter writing as feminist praxis	2
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?	2
LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions	2
‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers	2
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making	2
The privacy and visibility paradox: trans students’ experiences of toilets and changing rooms in UK secondary schools	2
‘Day-dreaming’ school climate: a slow critical feminist post-humanist c/art/ographic listening to how school feels	2
A complex problem with a one-sided solution? Exploring a Swedish municipality’s work with gender-based grade differences	2
Exercising the imagination: ecofeminist science fictions as object-oriented thought experiments in education	2
Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice	2
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education	2
‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools	2
‘Probably would have changed my whole world’: using imagination as method to drive queer justice in primary schools	2
Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women	2
Disbelief, denial, and failure: a critical collaborative autoethnography of feminist pedagogies educating against Tate-fuelled sexism in Australian schools	2
Going bahar (outside) for higher education: gendered symbolic boundaries of higher education access and choice in Haryana, India	2
‘I don’t feel like I belong’: first-in-family girls’ constructions of belonging and space during the transition from secondary school into university	2
Hegemonic masculinity and institutional betrayal: an oppressive silencing of the feminist ear in Burkina Faso secondary schools	1
Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education	1
Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools	1
Teaching on the floor: changing teaching through feminist practices	1
Affected by STEM? Young girls negotiating STEM presents and futures in a Danish school	1
Boys, academic achievement and ‘Crisis’ talk: analysing pseudo-expert discourses in the construction of boyhood	1
Third space pedagogy: teaching gender and sexuality in the European classroom	1
Men’s career choices in early childhood education and care – an embodied intersectionality perspective	1
‘You don’t want to say anything wrong:’ teachers fearing uncertainties and trans parents (in)visibility in early childhood education	1
The gendered construction of teachers’ identities and practices: feminist critical discourse analysis of policy texts in Ireland	1
Beyond educator-targeted bullying: a narrative review exploring women teachers’ experiences of sexual harassment from an intersectional perspective	1
The glass escalator in school counselling: gender and leadership aspirations	1
‘Work hard, play hard, drink hard’: frontier masculinities and female teachers’ experiences in a regional Australian mining town	1
Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda	1
Contributions of the preventive socialization of gender based violence to the development of an educational strategy	1
Girls cook, boys play soccer: (re)producing or challenging gender norms in youth work through social media	1
Women’s challenges in Chilean neoliberal academia: academic workload and its impact on work-life balance	1
Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence	1
Making the margins of masculinities: three cases from a Finnish lower secondary school	1
Gender inequality in academia from the perspective of the dialogical self: beyond ‘autonomous men’ and ‘relational women’	1
Beyond the neoliberalized academy: caring and careful practices of women full professors	1
Artistic mutilation of genitalia: an interpretive analysis of representations of genitalia in Indian school science textbooks	1
How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care	1
Unearthing gender violence with/in kindergarten play environments	1
Service, suffering, and silence: a duoethnographic exploration of the evangelical roots of gender hierarchies in American elementary schools	1
Dress like a winner: mathematical investigations in a design workshop in an early childhood education teacher education programme	1
Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland	1
Strandlooping as a relational enquiry to reimagine higher education and gender studies along the Camissa coastline	1
Women’s non-linear journeys into and through higher education are considered through an emergent research process that spans qualitative and post-qualitative practice	1
Bodies and learning trajectories: a ‘post’ feminist approach to the experience of Spanish students in higher education	1
Ecofeminist geragogy as emergent informal learning: insights from Nannagogy	1
A feminist inquiry into Canadian pre-service teacher narratives on sex education and sexual violence prevention	1
‘Manfluencers’, masculinities and the practice of misogyny in educational settings: critical analyses, theoretical advances, and potential solutions for addressing a pernicious problem for gender equa	1
The politics of intersectional (un)belonging: a duoethnographic mapping study with academic women	1
Online misogyny and pedagogies of Hindutva digital subjectivation: reflections from the Indian manosphere	1
Unequal opportunities in becoming cosmopolitan: Korean students’ gendered and classed acquirement of transnational mobility through studying abroad	1
Becoming a political subject through affect and social media in feminist student movements in a Chilean school	1
Queering the glass ceiling: alpha females, cyborgs, and the non-tenure track in science	1
Post-Tate, post-truth, post-digital: researching and mitigating the misogyny influencers	1
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts	1
UnboXing relationships and sexuality education with a phEmaterialist arts-activist praxis	1
Navigating multiple expectations: Chinese female university teachers’ identity performance on social media	1
Big and small, girls and boys: intersecting gendered touch practices in early childhood educators’ discourses	1