OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies of Science 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	42
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	29
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	25
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	23
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	22
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	20
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	19
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	19
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	19
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	18
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	18
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	17
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning: a book review	15
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	15
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	14
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	13
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	12
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	12
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	12
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	11
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	10
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	9
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	9
Fun moments or consequential experiences? A model for conceptualising and researching equitable youth outcomes from informal STEM learning	9
The sociocultural practices in a science classroom and the influence on Black girls’ girlhood	9

Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	9
What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	9
The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	8
Cultivating Black girls’ science identities in middle and secondary science classrooms	8
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	7
STEM learning as care work	7
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	7
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	6
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	6
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	6
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	6
Comparative analysis of chemistry teaching in city center and suburban public schools in Brazil: how school reputation and social profile influence chemistry teaching and high school students’ perform	6
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	6
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
Blind spots in elementary students’ perceptions regarding the food system: expanding Fonseca’s research on depictions of animal food production in Portuguese textbooks	6
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	6
Cultural decolonization and implications for pedagogy in integrating STEM-IKS education in the Global South	5
Explanations as cultural tools in science education	5
Science education and the African Diaspora in the United States	5
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	5
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	5
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	5
From teaching for war to acknowledging vulnerability: a cartography of gender and mistake-handling in mathematics education	4
Wonderings about Klaren: looking inward and outward on preparing teachers of science in a neoliberal society	4
Refocusing science professional learning: social justice at the heart	4
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Ninth-grade students’ interactions and co-construction of arguments during a teaching unit on soil science	4
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	3
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	3
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	3
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
Conceptualizing and introducing historically relevant science pedagogy as a pedagogical tool for STEM education	3
Making “it” matter: developing African-American girls and young women’s mathematics and science identities through informal STEM learning	3
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	3
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	3
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	3
Critical race theory in science education: moving forward and making critical connections to race through the DAST research	3
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	3
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	3
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	3
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	3
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	2
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	2

Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	2
Toward a framework of culturally relevant science and mathematics pedagogy: a pedagogical and analytical tool for teacher education	2
“For whom? By whom?”: critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science	2
A cultural historical comparison of in-school and out-of-school STEM activity systems for African-American girls	2
Forwarding a ‘science-ethics nexus’ to critique and reorient science education pedagogy toward greater social and ecological justice	2
Beadmaking as a pedagogical site: transcending the traditional walls between the academy and the community	2
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
Teachers’ beliefs about language in science: Customizing science curricula to center emergent multilingual learners’ sensemaking	2
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
An attempt to re-evaluate VNOS-C data from a sociocultural perspective	2
Revisiting the Philippine archaic measurement system: cultural integration with science literacy and education	2
New geography for resistance: the engagement of diversity in Doc McStuffins as an out-of-school STEM setting	2
Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience	2
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
On the encounter of scientific literature with Afro-Brazilian ancestral pharmacopeias	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	2
Unclouding judgment: advocating for greater attention to cognitive biases in socioscientific decision-making on climate change	2
“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
How a marginalized student’s attempts to position himself as an accepted member are constrained or afforded in small-group argumentation	2
Seeing a science of her own: intersectionality in the age of denial	2
A whale of a time: engaging in a war of values for youth activism in science education	2
A manifesto to young activist scientists and science educators: toward pluriversal sciences and science educations within bioregions and communities	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2
An effective intervention with a blended learning environment for improving cognitive learning and spiritual meaning	2
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	2
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	2