OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Art & Design 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Playing with Strangeness: Principles of Designing Action Scenarios to Promote Creativity in Children	25
The Imaginary Museum: Researching Imagination Through Practices of the Imaginary	17
Visualising COVID‐19: Implications for Design Education	15
Integrating Arts Into Nature Education for Sustainable Rural Development	15
T+ Designers: A Case for Transdisciplinarity in Design Higher Education by Way of a South African Case Study	14
Space for Imagination? Exploring the Challenges of Implementing Art‐Based, Metacognitive Approaches for Supporting Imagination as a Route to Agency	14
Methodological Insights and Trends: Participatory Positioning of Children and Youth in Visual Art Education Research	14
Trying to Undo the Colonialities of Arts Education: The Construction of a Workbook as Curriculum‐(Un)Making	11
Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness	10
Integrating Environmental Education: An Action Research on Practice Teaching in Art and Design Programmes	10
Akokisa River Pedagogies	10
Thinking About Drawing As Cause and Consequence: Practical Approaches in Time	10
Moments of Doubts	9
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Crip Time Travels Through the Membrane and Vortex: An Autoethnographic Inquiry of Neurodivergent Student Temporality in Higher Art Education	8
The Art of Becoming a Visual Arts Teacher – the Wildebeest, the Feeling‐Beast and the Cat	8
‘Who Thinks this Teaspoon Is Art?’ A Discourse Analysis of Elementary School Students' Negotiation of Meaning During Art Museum Visits	7
Fostering Creative Thinking and Ingenuity in Design Education: Curriculum Practices in the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology MFA Illustration P	7
Out of Time, Pedagogy, Temporality and the Affective Encounter. Film and Moving Image Making Practice in Art Education	7
Artist‐Teacher Practices as Sites of Peace ‘Making’	7
Exploring the Benefits of Culturally Responsive Art Learning Experience for Rural Chinese Students	6
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Analysing the Limitations of Bauhausian Pedagogies in Contemporary Design Education From a Neuroscience Perspective	6

A Review of the Evolution of Research on the Size of Children's Drawings in Relation to Their Expressed Emotion About the Depicted Topic: 1988–2023	6
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Design Education of Non‐design Students and How They Perceive their Design Competency	6
An Analysis of a Proposed Definition for Artist‐Teachers in Adult Community Learning	6
"The Council," Artist Adelita Husni‐Bey and Young Adults Envision the Future Museum	5
Teacher's Views of Art Education in Primary Schools in Scotland	5
Exploring Visiting Artists' Dual Roles and Constraints in Art Educational Programmes	5
Effect of Artistic Activities on Adolescents' Creative Thinking: The Mediating Role of Creative Engagement	5
Metaverse‐Based Learning Through Children's School Space Design	5
Issue Information	5
Quick, Quick, Slow: Making Time for Sustainable Photography Practices in Contemporary Higher Education	5
From Theatre to XR: Shaping Immersive Storytelling Design Education through Artistic and Analogue Insights	4
A Green Manifesto for Art, Craft and Design Education	4
The Mokuhanga Technique Today: An Exploration of Traditional Japanese Art in the Artistic and Educational Context	4
Erratum	4
The Quiet Learner of the UK Art Classroom	4
Creativity Enactment in Ghanaian Secondary Visual Arts Programmes: An Autoethnographic Perspective	4
Meeting the New (Old) Ecological Challenges for Art Education	4
Exploring the Effect of Cultural Inspiration Distance and Timing on Designer’ Creativity in Targeted Cultural Creative Design Pattern	4
Intra‐spective Event‐encounters in Museums: A Pedagogic Practice Among Community Art Educators in Training	4
Design Sprints, Designathons and Place‐Based Learning in the Context of Real‐World Health Problems	4
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Digital Infographic Creation in Design Education: A Participatory Learning Algorithm Measuring Location‐Based Spatial Impact	3
Notes towards a pedagogy of be‐longing: Rewilding art and design education	3
Creative Authenticity: A Framework for Supporting the Student Self in Design Education	3
Editorial	3
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Ghanaian Graphic Design Education: Redefining Western Influences and Reclaiming Indigenous Cultures	3
A Necessary Shift in Design Education: From Outputs to Outcomes	3
‘I'm Just Not Artistic’—An Exploration of Initial Teacher Education Trainees' Confidence in Their Art Ability and their Perceptions of Teaching the Primary Art and Design Curriculum	3
Imaginative Interdependence: Imagination, Speculation and Aesthesis	3
Artivist Childhoods	3
Preparing Future Designers for their Role in Co‐Design: Student Insights on Learning Co‐Design	3
Design Instructors in Focus: Unveiling the Role of Guest Speakers in Architectural Education	3
Revisiting Art's Education	3
What Drives Design Education in Korean Classrooms? The History of South Korea's National Curriculum and Some Proposals for Design Education in Its Current Iteration	3
Creative Pedagogies: School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination	3
The Unique Qualities of Junior Cycle Visual Art Education in Ireland	3
The Potential of Visual Arts Education: Strengthening Pre‐Service Primary Teachers’ Cultural Identity	3
Designing for Sustainability: Emerging Professional Roles and Capabilities for Designers in the 21st Century	3
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Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course	3
Becoming Materially Aware with Mushrooms: A Sociomaterial Analysis of Biomaking	2
Making Art Explicit: Knowledge, Reason and Art History in the Art and Design Curriculum	2
Third‐Site Ecologies in Art Education: Artist‐Teacher Perspectives on Environmental Awareness in Turkey	2
Creativity, Practical Ability, Self‐Identity: Public Art Practice with Primary School Students in China	2
Relaxing Design Students’ Sketch Inhibition: Experiences with Theoretical Grounding and Impermanent Media	2
Make First: Exploring Methods to Deliver Anti‐Racist and Anti‐Ableist Craft Learning	2
‘Is This Really Europe?’ Migration, Social Practice and the Performance of Global Citizenship	2
The Influence of Humanities on Art and Design Learning Performance: An Empirical Study	2

Ecologies of Collective Imagination	2
Arts Practice as the Daily Extraordinary: A Philosophy of Inclusivity	2
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Belonging: Dialogues for a Culturally Responsive Art & Design Education	2
Analysing Creative Design Process: A Set of Tools to Understand Activity in its Socio‐cultural and Historic Context	2
Issue Information	2
Brief Remarks on the Strategic Experimentation of Belonging and the Instauring of Cosmicities in the Context of Art Education	2
Feminist Pedagogy and Student Collaboration in Open Educational Practices in the Art History Classroom	2
Like Drifting Sand Dunes: Noisy Lessons in a Porous Field	2
Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research	2
Never Enough Time	2
Exploring Activist Art Studies: Enhancing Visual Literacy through Critical Engagement and Interpretation	2
Expanding Multimodal Artistic Expression and Appreciation Methods through Integrating Augmented Reality	1
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Decolonising Art and Design Education through Standpoint Theory, Embodied Learning and Deep Listening	1
Beyond Storytelling: A Theory‐Informed Approach to Interiors as Social Narratives	1
STREAM : Integrating Storytelling and Robotics into STEAM Education	1
Aesthetic Dissensus as Public Pedagogy: Exploring Contemporary Art that Counters Whiteness and Far‐Right Ideologies in Mainstream Digital Spaces	1
To Throw Oneself Into the Fray: A Qualitative Evaluation Study Into the Educational Potential of Contemporary Artistic Activism for Practices of Art and Citizenship Education	1
Exploring Complex Historical Figures through a Modified Critical Making Framework	1
Inclusive Signs: A Teaching and Learning Toolkit to Generate Inclusive Meta‐Design Concepts	1
Opening Up Opportunities: Trainee Teachers Experiences of Teaching Pupils with Visual Impairment	1
The Pedagogical Power of Paper	1
Hands‐on Digital Design Course during the Pandemic: Moulding Design for Fabricating Small Objects	1
The Neuroaesthetics of Art and Design Education	1
How Does the Design Guidelines for Traditional Cultural Artefacts Inspire Design in a Culturally Inspired Design Process? A Comparative Study with Novice Design Students	1
Editorial	1
Synergising Computational and Design Thinking in Design Education: A Dual‐Process Framework to Enhancing Creativity and Appropriateness	1
Learning Generative Design Methods: Higher Education Students Developing Toolkits	1
Working at the Edges: Material Explorations on Change in Art Education and Policy Through Teacher Agency	1
Engaging Students with Art‐Based S‐R‐C (Sense of Belonging, Resistance, and Coalition Building) Strategies for Anti‐Racism	1
Rethinking Methodology Matters in Art and Design Education Research Through the White Cube	1
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Developing Empathy Through Design Thinking in Elementary Art Education	1
Students in the Forest: The Role of Design‐Build Pedagogies in Repairing Material Disconnections in Architecture Education	1
The Influence Aesthetic Processes Can Have on Daycare Children's Play	1
Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives	1
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Populating and Staying with Methodological Surprise	1
Metaphors as Critical Pedagogy: Guiding Creative Thinking in Novice Design and Non‐Design Foundation Year University Students in the United Arab Emirates	1
Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education	1
The Role of Imagination in Autoethnographic Research	1
Inclusivity within Art and Design Education: The Boy Problem	1
Lifting Stress from the Day: A Women's Well‐Being Online Community Art Project	1
A Critical Review of Current Trends in Art Education Research in Mainland China: Epistemological Underpinnings, Methodological Practices and Contexts	1
Collaborative occasions of imagination: A philosophical pedagogical approach to arts education in the classroom	1
Performative Wear: Speculating the Potential to Challenge Designer‐Centric Narratives in Fashion Education	1
Eliciting Empathy Embedded in Design Conversations: Empathic Perspective‐Taking of Design Teachers Towards Design Students, Users and Materials	1
Heritage Appreciation and Awareness: A Child Educational Approach Exploiting Animated Video	1
Reframing Pedagogical Practices Through the UTBO ‐ CLIL Framework in Art and Design Higher Educati	1
Assessment for Learning of Design Teamwork Skills	1
New Learning Environments in Design and Craft Education – Acknowledging the Learning of Design Literacy	1
Squiggle Game, from a Psychotherapy to an Educational Creativity Method. Drawing and Designing Together	1
Exploring the Artistic Identity of Elementary Art Teachers	1
Categories and Dilemmas of Youth Arts Programmes in Denmark and England	1
Gender‐Based Differences in Academic Achievement in a University Design Program	1