OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies of Science 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Anthropocene as we know it: posthumanism, science education and scientific literacy as a path to sustainability	18
A day of reckoning for the white academy: reframing success for African American women in STEM	17
Facing neoliberalism through dialogic spaces as sites of hope in science education: experiences of two self-organised communities	15
Academic integrity, STEM education, and COVID-19: a call to action	15
The quest for sustainable futures: designing transformative learning spaces with multilingual Black, Brown, and Latinx young people through critical response-ability	15
Decoloniality in STEM research: (re)framing success	14
Who aspires to be a scientist/who is allowed in science? Science identity as a lens to exploring the political dimension of the nature of science	14
Uncovering stories of resilience among successful African American women in STEM	13
Science education against the rise of fascist and authoritarian movements: towards the development of a pedagogy for democracy	12
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	11
Disrupting deficit narratives in informal science education: applying community cultural wealth theory to youth learning and engagement	10
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	10
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	10
Mitigating the need for resiliency for Black girls: reimagining the cultural brokering through a lens of science as white property	10
Manifesting Black Joy in science learning	9
Learning about the nature of science through the critical and reflective reading of news on the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Learners’ socio-cultural backgrounds and science teaching and learning: a case study of township schools in South Africa	9
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	9
“They have a lot more freedom than they know”: science education as a space for radical openness	8
Addressing underrepresentation of young women of color in engineering and computing through the lens of sociocultural theory	8
The identity turn in science education research: a critical review of methodologies in a consolidating field	8
“It’s not a deaf thing, it’s not a black thing; it’s a deaf black thing”: a study of the intersection of adolescents’ deaf, race, and STEM identities	7
Overcoming the discourse of science mistrust: how science education can be used to develop competent consumers and communicators of science information	7
Indigenous knowledge of Indonesian traditional medicines in science teaching and learning using a science–technology–engineering–mathematics (STEM) approach	7
Gardener-becoming-tree, tree-becoming-gardener: growing-together as a metaphor for thinking about learning and development	7

Storied identities and teacher candidates’ developing practices	7
Fun moments or consequential experiences? A model for conceptualising and researching equitable youth outcomes from informal STEM learning	7
Using a controversy about health, biology, and indigenous knowledge to promote undergraduates’ awareness of the importance of respecting the traditions and beliefs of indigenous communities: the case	7
Confronting repressive ideologies with critical pedagogy in science classrooms	6
Toward a place-based learning progression for haze pollution in the northern region of Thailand	6
Addressing critical cross-cultural issues in elementary STEM education research and practice: a critical review essay of Engineering in Elementary STEM Education	6
Trust in the time of corona: epistemic practice beyond hard evidence	6
“For whom? By whom?”: critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science	6
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	6
Holding space for uncertainty and vulnerability: reclaiming humanity in teacher education through contemplative \| equity pedagogy	6
Science education research practices and its boundaries: on methodological and epistemological challenges	5
Is science a universal or a culture-specific endeavor? The benefits of having secondary students critically explore this question	5
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	5
Indigenous children’s connectedness to nature: the potential influence of culture, gender and exposure to a contaminated environment	5
Pedagogical challenges involving race, gender and the unwritten rules in settings of higher education	5
A swing and a child: how scientific phenomena can come to matter for preschool children’s emergent science identities	5
Becoming alive within science education (research): thinking with life history(ies), bodies and stickiness	5
Multicultural classroom teaching in Nepal: perspectives and practices of a secondary level science teacher	5
Science education during times of crisis: calling for reflections, responses, and forward thinking from the CSSE community	5
Wellbeing in initial teacher education: using poetic representation to examine pre-service teachers’ understanding of their self-care needs	5
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	4
Inquiry-based science teaching in community secondary schools in Tanzania: role played by the language of instruction	4
“We constantly have to navigate”: Indigenous students’ and professionals’ strategies for navigating ethical conflicts in STEMM	4
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	4
Humanizing science education, wellness and a more just world	4
Making “it” matter: developing African-American girls and young women’s mathematics and science identities through informal STEM learning	4
Shura-infused STEM professional learning community in an Islamic School in Thailand	4
South epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education	4
Opportunities and tensions in family science: challenging dominant paradigms of science education	4
Multiculturalism in higher education: experiences of international teaching assistants and their students in science and math classrooms	4
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	4
The problematic use of urban, suburban, and rural in science education	4
The environment and politics in science education: the case of teaching fracking	4
Exploring informal science education responses to COVID-19 global pandemic: learning from the case of the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Korea	3
Global challenges need attention now: educating humanity for wellness and sustainability	3
Looking back at “our science” and “our history”: an exploration of Korean preservice science teachers’ encounters with East Asian history of science	3
Testing and cheating: technologies of power and resistance	3
A case study of whiteness at work in an elementary classroom	3
Saudi science teachers’ perceptions of the cultural factors influencing elementary students’ science learning	3
Depoliticization of educational reforms: the STEM story	3
The journey of a science teacher: preparing female students in the training future scientists after-school program	3
Re/turning to soil: becoming one-bodied with the Earth	3
Interaction rituals, emotions, and early childhood science: digital microscopes and collective joy in a multilingual classroom	3
Freire’s hope in radically changing times: a dialogue for curriculum integration from science education to face the climate crisis	3
Synergizing standards-based and place-based science education	3
Crossing borders between science and religion: Muslim Indonesian biology teachers’ perceptions of teaching the theory of evolution	3
Ecology and colour in 1m2: a contemplative, place-based study	3
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	3
Stepping into STS literature: Some implications for promoting socioecological justice through science education	3
Challenges in measuring “connectedness to nature” among indigenous children: lessons from the Negev Bedouin	3

Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	3
My best science teacher: the views of Black students and implications for science education reform	3
The emergence of remote laboratory courses in an emergency situation: University instructors’ agency during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
New geography for resistance: the engagement of diversity in Doc McStuffins as an out-of-school STEM setting	2
The ethical implications of Goethe’s approach to nature and Its potential role in teacher education	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2
A story of bodying in science education	2
Reconnecting self, others and nature	2
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	2
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	2
What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	2
Evolutionary change over time: The history of history in US fundamentalist school publishing	2
The merit of medicine: science aspirations in India	2
From ego to eco: re-orienting for processual ontology in the “Dao-Field”	2
The Christian right’s war on reality: Where do/should American science teachers stand?	2
Counter-hegemonic science education: understanding the effects of coloniality and proposing a decolonial pedagogy	2
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	2
How a marginalized student’s attempts to position himself as an accepted member are constrained or afforded in small-group argumentation	2
“Why would Benjamin Franklin want to know if lightning was electricity?” elementary teachers and students making sense of the nature of science during interactive read-alouds	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
Hard-rooted to nature: rediscovering the forgotten forest in science education	2
Problems of portrayal: Hidden Figures in the development of science educators	2
Should we bother to practice ecological responsibility?	2
Socialized medicine has always been political: COVID-19, science and biopower in India	2
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	2
Theorizing racism to advance science education research for people of African descent	2
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	2
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	2
Philosophy in the science classroom: How should biology teachers explain the relationship between science and religion to students?	2
Identity development and intersections of disability, race, and STEM: Illuminating perspectives on equity	2
Indigenous artefacts and physics curriculum: teaching science as a cultural way of knowing	1
A crisis of authority in scientific discourse	1
How microblogging affords conditions for realising student voices about the body and sexuality in a science education lesson	1
The science-ethics nexus: a speculative posthumanist examination of secondary school science	1
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	1
Science education and cultural diversity: Freire’s concept of dialogue as theoretical lens to study the classroom discourse of science teachers	1
Decolonial scientific education to combat ‘science for domination’	1
Sustainability science education: our animalistic response-ability	1
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	1
What’s in a name? The use of induced perspective taking to inform arguments about the appropriateness of the term “Chinavirus” when talking about COVID-19	1
Science education and the African Diaspora in the United States	1
Formal rules and rules as reasoning-in-action: playing games with reality in science education	1
Creating cultural refugia to transform the boundaries of science	1
Exploring nature of criticality in high school science teaching: sociopolitical consciousness in multicultural science education	1
Scientific temper and nehruvian influence: how the millennials are handling the mythologization of science in India	1
Why does this matter? The value of intersectionality	1
Equity in teaching science during times of crisis: a study with Portuguese science teachers	1
Postmodern metaphor	1
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	1
Working toward equitable research practices: the value of highlighting complexity and respecting context	1
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	1
A Latina science teacher becoming a dialogic educator: “I’m okay being hated because somebody has to be strong”	1
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	1
Wonderings about Klaren: looking inward and outward on preparing teachers of science in a neoliberal society	1
Beyond neat classifications: A case for the in-betweens	1
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	1
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	1
What is that’s going on here? A multidimensional time concept is foundational to framing for decision making in situations of uncertainty	1
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	1
Incorporating indigenous artefacts in developing an integrated indigenous-pedagogical model in high school physics curriculum: views of elders, teachers and learners	1
A cultural historical comparison of in-school and out-of-school STEM activity systems for African-American girls	1
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	1
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	1
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	1
Enhancing place-based learning progression through epistemic agency: a response to toward a hypothetical place-based learning progression for haze pollution in the northern region of Thailand	1
Cogenerating insights into the dialectics of contemplative practices in educational and lifeworld settings	1
The hegemony of English in science education in India: a case study exploring impact of teacher orientation in translating policy in practice	1
Stories of water: preschool children’s engagement with water purification	1
Demarcation as a classroom response to creationism: a critical examination of the National Academy of Sciences’ Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2008)	1
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion	1
Seeing a science of her own: intersectionality in the age of denial	1
Too much too little: educating just in case?	1
Margin envy: looking at science education in Arizona from a STEM-ed state	1
Educating future scientists towards post-patrimonial governance	1
Soul searching in science teaching: an exploration of critical teaching events through the lens of intersectionality	1
Special issue “reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education”—theme: transnational collaborations and solidarities	1
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	1
Neoliberalism and science education south of the equator: perspectives from Brazil	1