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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	28
Humanizing science education, wellness and a more just world	23
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	22
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	21
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	19
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	19
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	17
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	15
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	15
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	14
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	14
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	13
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	13
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	13
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	12
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	11
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	11
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	11
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	11
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	10
Fun moments or consequential experiences? A model for conceptualising and researching equitable youth outcomes from informal STEM learning	10
The role of myths in students discussing ‘pest’–agriculture relations	10
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	10
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	8
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	8

On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	7
The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	7
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	7
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	7
A critical perspective on pandemics and epidemics: building a bridge between public health and science education	7
STEM learning as care work	7
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	6
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
The argumentative shortcomings of educators’ efforts to talk about religion and science: mixed enthymemes in Understanding Science	6
What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	6
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
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	5
Explanations as cultural tools in science education	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
Blind spots in elementary students’ perceptions regarding the food system: expanding Fonseca’s research on depictions of animal food production in Portuguese textbooks	5
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	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
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	5
South epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education	5
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	5
Science education and the African Diaspora in the United States	4
Critical race theory in science education: moving forward and making critical connections to race through the DAST research	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Hard-rooted to nature: rediscovering the forgotten forest in science education	4
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	4
Incorporating indigenous artefacts in developing an integrated indigenous-pedagogical model in high school physics curriculum: views of elders, teachers and learners	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	3
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	3
Conceptualizing and introducing historically relevant science pedagogy as a pedagogical tool for STEM education	3
Ninth-grade students’ interactions and co-construction of arguments during a teaching unit on soil science	3
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	3
Refocusing science professional learning: social justice at the heart	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
Wonderings about Klaren: looking inward and outward on preparing teachers of science in a neoliberal society	3
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion	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
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	2
Teachers’ beliefs about language in science: Customizing science curricula to center emergent multilingual learners’ sensemaking	2
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	2
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	2
An effective intervention with a blended learning environment for improving cognitive learning and spiritual meaning	2
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	2

Neoliberalism and science education south of the equator: perspectives from Brazil	2
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	2
New geography for resistance: the engagement of diversity in Doc McStuffins as an out-of-school STEM setting	2
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	2
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	2
On the encounter of scientific literature with Afro-Brazilian ancestral pharmacopeias	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	2
“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	2
Forwarding a ‘science-ethics nexus’ to critique and reorient science education pedagogy toward greater social and ecological justice	2
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2
A cultural historical comparison of in-school and out-of-school STEM activity systems for African-American girls	2
Cogenerating insights into the dialectics of contemplative practices in educational and lifeworld settings	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	2
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	2
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	2
A whale of a time: engaging in a war of values for youth activism in science education	2
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2