OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Art & Design Education is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	31
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Playing with Strangeness: Principles of Designing Action Scenarios to Promote Creativity in Children	15
The Imaginary Museum: Researching Imagination Through Practices of the Imaginary	13
Methodological Insights and Trends: Participatory Positioning of Children and Youth in Visual Art Education Research	11
T+ Designers: A Case for Transdisciplinarity in Design Higher Education by Way of a South African Case Study	10
Space for Imagination? Exploring the Challenges of Implementing Art‐Based, Metacognitive Approaches for Supporting Imagination as a Route to Agency	9
Visualising COVID‐19: Implications for Design Education	9
Re‐Framing Anni Albers and Bauhaus	8
Issue Information	8
Trying to Undo the Colonialities of Arts Education: The Construction of a Workbook as Curriculum‐(Un)Making	8
Encounters among Environmental Education and Eco‐Art in the Anthropocene	8
From Hybrid Spaces to In‐between Spaces: A Journey with Contemporary Art and Situated Knowledge	8
Crip Time Travels Through the Membrane and Vortex: An Autoethnographic Inquiry of Neurodivergent Student Temporality in Higher Art Education	7
Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness	7
Integrating Environmental Education: An Action Research on Practice Teaching in Art and Design Programmes	7
Akokisa River Pedagogies	7
Out of Time, Pedagogy, Temporality and the Affective Encounter. Film and Moving Image Making Practice in Art Education	6
Issue Information	6
The Art of Becoming a Visual Arts Teacher – the Wildebeest, the Feeling‐Beast and the Cat	6
‘Who Thinks this Teaspoon Is Art?’ A Discourse Analysis of Elementary School Students' Negotiation of Meaning During Art Museum Visits	6
Thinking About Drawing As Cause and Consequence: Practical Approaches in Time	6
Exploring the Benefits of Culturally Responsive Art Learning Experience for Rural Chinese Students	5
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Metaverse‐Based Learning Through Children's School Space Design	5

Teacher's Views of Art Education in Primary Schools in Scotland	5
An Analysis of a Proposed Definition for Artist‐Teachers in Adult Community Learning	5
Analysing the Limitations of Bauhausian Pedagogies in Contemporary Design Education From a Neuroscience Perspective	5
"The Council," Artist Adelita Husni‐Bey and Young Adults Envision the Future Museum	5
Design Education of Non‐design Students and How They Perceive their Design Competency	5
An Unexpected Shift to an Online Design Studio Course: Student Insights on Design Critiques	5
Quick, Quick, Slow: Making Time for Sustainable Photography Practices in Contemporary Higher Education	5
The Quiet Learner of the UK Art Classroom	4
Exploring Visiting Artists' Dual Roles and Constraints in Art Educational Programmes	4
Intra‐spective Event‐encounters in Museums: A Pedagogic Practice Among Community Art Educators in Training	4
Creativity Enactment in Ghanaian Secondary Visual Arts Programmes: An Autoethnographic Perspective	4
Exploring the Effect of Cultural Inspiration Distance and Timing on Designer’ Creativity in Targeted Cultural Creative Design Pattern	4
Erratum	4
A Green Manifesto for Art, Craft and Design Education	4
Design Sprints, Designathons and Place‐Based Learning in the Context of Real‐World Health Problems	4
Life Below Water: How Can Creative Practice Nurture Personal Agency and Global Citizenship in Primary Education?	3
Improving Architecture Students’ Design Skills: A Studio Experience	3
Designing for Sustainability: Emerging Professional Roles and Capabilities for Designers in the 21st Century	3
Editorial	3
Issue Information	3
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Fathers with their Children at an Art Exhibition: A Narrative Study	3
Dialogical Pedagogies in Visual Arts Education: A/r/tographical Encounters in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Preparing Future Designers for their Role in Co‐Design: Student Insights on Learning Co‐Design	3
Revisiting Art's Education	3
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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	2
Artivist Childhoods	2
Imaginative Interdependence: Imagination, Speculation and Aesthesis	2
Ecologies of Collective Imagination	2
Digital Infographic Creation in Design Education: A Participatory Learning Algorithm Measuring Location‐Based Spatial Impact	2
Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course	2
A Necessary Shift in Design Education: From Outputs to Outcomes	2
Investigating Preschoolers’ Perception of Artists: Drawing an Artist	2
Notes towards a pedagogy of be‐longing: Rewilding art and design education	2
Creative Pedagogies: School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination	2
The Potential of Visual Arts Education: Strengthening Pre‐Service Primary Teachers’ Cultural Identity	2
Ghanaian Graphic Design Education: Redefining Western Influences and Reclaiming Indigenous Cultures	2
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Creative Authenticity: A Framework for Supporting the Student Self in Design Education	2
The Unique Qualities of Junior Cycle Visual Art Education in Ireland	2