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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
She is so (post)human : doctoral students’ perceptions of response-ability of their becoming-supervisors through caring/careful practices	25
Assessment regimes, data, gender haunting, and health education	23
Manifestations of neoliberal feminism in U.S. teacher lactation behaviours	22
The girl (w)hole: a genealogy of elite boys’ school alumni’s encounters with feminine gender	14
Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi	14
Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans	13
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan	12
Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement	12
Research prACTivisms – a methodology for a-more-than-educational-academic knowledge production	11
Care as concubine: stretching the boundaries of care, politics and power in early childhood education and care	11
Education as an arena for anti-feminism: devaluation of femininity in primary education	10
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
Policing Black femininity: the hypercriminalization of Black girls in an urban school	10
‘They trusted me, even if I’m a tom like this’: exploring sexual-professional identity communication of LGBTQ+ primary schoolteachers	10
Institutional transphobia: barriers to transgender research in early years education	10
Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy	9
Intersectional cognitive schemas of diversity and inclusion in higher education	9
Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators	8
Belonging, caring, and community building across the borders: transnational feminist citizenship pedagogies of a migrant teacher	8
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning	8
Toward trans-assemblage thinking: becoming a transnational scholar through posthuman autoethnography	7
Race, ethnicity and gendered educational intersections	7
The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK	7
Medical fetishism in education: gendering the ‘clinical’ metaphor	7

Women academics’ motivation for higher education and empowerment: a qualitative case study in Pakistan	7
‘ This thing that we do’ : in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis	6
‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2	6
Men-only support spaces in early years education: a step towards a gender diverse or a gender divided workforce?	6
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence	6
Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research	6
Trans students. Difficulties, needs and educational actions in Spain	6
Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities	6
Caring as a girl: a feminist new materialism approach to the learning of care within the family in Finland	6
The erasure of sexual harassment in elite private boys’ schools	5
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism: working beyond binaries in environmental education	5
Once you shop, you can’t stop: are big-brand companies producing games for girls, or girls themselves?	5
Hypervisibility and erasure: parents’ accounts of transgender children in early childhood education and care and primary schools	5
‘It’s High School. Everybody gone judge yuh’: school as a social world where Afro-Caribbean girlhood experiences are created	5
Chopping carrots and becoming ‘real’ men: Uzbek boys, household work and the reproduction of masculinities in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	5
Gender representation in journalism education: a systematic literature review	5
Programmes for boys and men: possibilities for gender transformation	5
Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: ‘The program is not about turning boys into girls’	5
‘Elementary teachers aren’t good at maths’: gendered discourses and performative acts in U.S. mathematics teacher education	5
‘Jack was just Jack’: performance ethnography of one trans student’s secondary school experiences	5
Drawing teachers: examining teacher gender in drawings by pre-service educators	4
The negotiations of Pakistani mothers’ agency with structure: towards a research practice of hearing ‘silences’as a strategy	4
Towards a feminist praxis and pedagogy in higher education: knowledge-building and social action in Pakistan	4
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey	4
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education	4
Intersectionality, neoliberal meritocracy and the lived experiences of African first-generation women students in STEM in South African universities	4
Between activism and academia: zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19	4
‘Seeking a break from home’: investigating women’s college experiences in rural Mewat, India	4
Culture, complaint and confidentiality: an autoethnographic exploration of sexual harassment	3
Norwegian polyamorous families and their experiences of kindergarten: a narrative inquiry	3
Laughing off modernity into a Daoist movement in a college classroom in China: a decolonial and feminist materialist unpacking	3
‘Like putting a puzzle piece in the wrong spot’: Transgender and non-binary experiences of physical education	3
Institutional betrayal and sexual harassment in STEM institutions: evidence from science and technology universities of Ethiopia	3
Collaboratively reimagining higher education: enacting posthuman feminist practices	3
Admining beyond certainty: generating new educational imaginaries through more-than-faculty roles	3
‘I can build Beyblades, but I won’t do it!’. The importance of feminist perspectives within STEM in ECTE	3
Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools	3
Gender equality as a resource and a dilemma: interpretative repertoires in engineering education in Sweden	3
Arachne, self-care and ‘power-nets’ on women’s self-development programmes	2
Hair-ing and haring: post (auto) theoretical more-than-human entanglement with hair/her/stories of Muslim schoolgirls	2
Indigenous cosmologies and black onto-epistemologies in gender and education	2
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia	2
Response-able study: sketching ecologies for collective, affective and speculative practices in higher education	2
‘What is gender to you?’: An Africana Womanist take on perceptions of gender reality on women’s agency among a rural Malawian Community	2
From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women	2
Negotiating co-existing subjectivities: the new maternal self in the academy	2
Love is (not) love? exploring Chinese university teachers’ agency in translating rainbow works	2
Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice	1
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education	1
Big and small, girls and boys: intersecting gendered touch practices in early childhood educators’ discourses	1

Ecofeminist geragogy as emergent informal learning: insights from Nannagogy	1
‘Day-dreaming’ school climate: a slow critical feminist post-humanist c/art/ographic listening to how school feels	1
‘A room of one's own’: remote learning among Palestinian-Arab female students in the Israeli periphery following the COVID-19 crisis	1
Exercising the imagination: ecofeminist science fictions as object-oriented thought experiments in education	1
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi	1
‘I don’t feel like I belong’: first-in-family girls’ constructions of belonging and space during the transition from secondary school into university	1
Examining the gendered timescapes of higher education: reflections through letter writing as feminist praxis	1
Editorial: Feminism(s) and the ‘posts’: towards new educational imaginaries and hope-full renewals	1
The cultural politics of emotion and mothers’ responsibility for school choice	1
A charge to keep I have: Black women teachers’ spirituality and the implications for educational leadership	1
Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women	1
Strandlooping as a relational enquiry to reimagine higher education and gender studies along the Camissa coastline	1
Hegemonic masculinity and institutional betrayal: an oppressive silencing of the feminist ear in Burkina Faso secondary schools	1
Normative violence and the terms of recognizability as ‘woman’ in Chilean Catholic schools	1
Going bahar (outside) for higher education: gendered symbolic boundaries of higher education access and choice in Haryana, India	1
Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice	1
‘I have bills to pay!’ Sugar dating in British higher education institutions	1
‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools	1
LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions	1
The privacy and visibility paradox: trans students’ experiences of toilets and changing rooms in UK secondary schools	1
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making	1
Navigating multiple expectations: Chinese female university teachers’ identity performance on social media	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
Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda	1
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?	1
Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies	1