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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Science educators cannot remain silent: a call for Palestinian solidarity	27
A(n) (re)awakening: preservice teachers connecting their culture to science teaching along the US–México border	26
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	22
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	21
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	20
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	18
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	18
Literacy as an operation of scientific sensemaking in middle school science instruction: a CHAT analysis	17
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	13
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	13
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	12
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	11
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	10
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	10
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning: a book review	10
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	10
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	9
Ethno-STEM approach for positioning indigenous knowledge systems in secondary schools mathematics pedagogy of South Africa	9
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	8
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	8
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	8
'Community sensemaking': community-based participatory research to develop Indigenous adolescents' ethnic identity by integrating Rukai TEK of water within a STEAM curriculum	7
The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	7
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	7

STEM learning as care work	7
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	6
Cultivating Black girls’ science identities in middle and secondary science classrooms	6
The sociocultural practices in a science classroom and the influence on Black girls’ girlhood	6
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	6
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	6
Blind spots in elementary students’ perceptions regarding the food system: expanding Fonseca’s research on depictions of animal food production in Portuguese textbooks	5
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	5
Cultural decolonization and implications for pedagogy in integrating STEM-IKS education in the Global South	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
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	4
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	4
Christian religious and scientific views and forms of human–nature relationship in biology teachers	4
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	4
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	4
Ninth-grade students’ interactions and co-construction of arguments during a teaching unit on soil science	4
Teachers’ beliefs about language in science: Customizing science curricula to center emergent multilingual learners’ sensemaking	3
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	3
Call for applications: co–editor-in-chief	3
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	3
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	3
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	3
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	3
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	3
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	3
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	3
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	3
Refocusing science professional learning: social justice at the heart	3
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	3
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	3
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	3
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	3
Unclouding judgment: advocating for greater attention to cognitive biases in socioscientific decision-making on climate change	3
Conceptualizing and introducing historically relevant science pedagogy as a pedagogical tool for STEM education	3
From teaching for war to acknowledging vulnerability: a cartography of gender and mistake-handling in mathematics education	3
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	3
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	3
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	3
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
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	2

“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
Revisiting the Philippine archaic measurement system: cultural integration with science literacy and education	2
Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience	2
How microblogging affords conditions for realising student voices about the body and sexuality in a science education lesson	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
Beadmaking as a pedagogical site: transcending the traditional walls between the academy and the community	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
An attempt to re-evaluate VNOS-C data from a sociocultural perspective	2
“For whom? By whom?”: critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science	2
"I’ve felt out of place sometimes in STEM but my cultural roots say otherwise:” Latina college students’ identity conundrums and opportunities in a science research internship	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
Narratives of learning in a permacultural cooperative: some inspiring ideas for science education in the light of Freire's pedagogy	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
Toward a framework of culturally relevant science and mathematics pedagogy: a pedagogical and analytical tool for teacher education	2
Meeting the needs of the individual student in the post-pandemic era: an analysis of the next generation science standards	2
Exploring the intersection of disasters and science education with preservice science teachers through a disaster case study	2