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

Article	Citations
Exploring nature of criticality in high school science teaching: sociopolitical consciousness in multicultural science education	21
Humanizing science education, wellness and a more just world	21
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	19
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	19
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	19
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	18
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	17
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	16
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	16
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	16
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	14
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	14
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	13
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	13
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	12
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	10
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	10
Creating cultural refugia to transform the boundaries of science	10
Fun moments or consequential experiences? A model for conceptualising and researching equitable youth outcomes from informal STEM learning	10
Interaction rituals, emotions, and early childhood science: digital microscopes and collective joy in a multilingual classroom	10
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	10
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	9
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	9
STEM learning as care work	9
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	8

What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	8
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	8
A critical perspective on pandemics and epidemics: building a bridge between public health and science education	8
The role of myths in students discussing ‘pest’–agriculture relations	8
Looking back at “our science” and “our history”: an exploration of Korean preservice science teachers’ encounters with East Asian history of science	7
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	7
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
Margin envy: looking at science education in Arizona from a STEM-ed state	6
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	6
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	6
The argumentative shortcomings of educators’ efforts to talk about religion and science: mixed enthymemes in Understanding Science	6
Explanations as cultural tools in science education	5
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	5
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	5
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	5
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	5
The problematic use of urban, suburban, and rural in science education	5
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	5
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	5
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	5
Reconnecting self, others and nature	5
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
South epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education	5
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Science education and the African Diaspora in the United States	4
Hard-rooted to nature: rediscovering the forgotten forest in science education	4
Making “it” matter: developing African-American girls and young women’s mathematics and science identities through informal STEM learning	4
Critical race theory in science education: moving forward and making critical connections to race through the DAST research	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Incorporating indigenous artefacts in developing an integrated indigenous-pedagogical model in high school physics curriculum: views of elders, teachers and learners	4
Wonderings about Klaren: looking inward and outward on preparing teachers of science in a neoliberal society	4
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	4
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	4
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	4
What is that’s going on here? A multidimensional time concept is foundational to framing for decision making in situations of uncertainty	4
Correction to: 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 Th	4
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	4
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	3
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	3
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	3
Refocusing science professional learning: social justice at the heart	3
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion	3
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	3
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	3
Holding space for uncertainty and vulnerability: reclaiming humanity in teacher education through contemplative \| equity pedagogy	3
Sustainability science education: our animalistic response-ability	3
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	3

Bring along the other: dialogue, togetherness, and possibilities in Science Education	3
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	3
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	3
Confronting repressive ideologies with critical pedagogy in science classrooms	3
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	3
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	3
On the encounter of scientific literature with Afro-Brazilian ancestral pharmacopeias	2
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2
Forwarding a ‘science-ethics nexus’ to critique and reorient science education pedagogy toward greater social and ecological justice	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
An effective intervention with a blended learning environment for improving cognitive learning and spiritual meaning	2
Problems of portrayal: Hidden Figures in the development of science educators	2
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	2
Cogenerating insights into the dialectics of contemplative practices in educational and lifeworld settings	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	2
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	2
New geography for resistance: the engagement of diversity in Doc McStuffins as an out-of-school STEM setting	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
Coping and scholarship during a pandemic	2
Should we bother to practice ecological responsibility?	2
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	2
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	2
A story of bodying in science education	2
Synergizing standards-based and place-based science education	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
A whale of a time: engaging in a war of values for youth activism in science education	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2
From hermit crabs to humus: Heesoon Bai’s contributions to cultural studies in science education	2
Neoliberalism and science education south of the equator: perspectives from Brazil	2
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	2