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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	28
A(n) (re)awakening: preservice teachers connecting their culture to science teaching along the US–México border	27
Science educators cannot remain silent: a call for Palestinian solidarity	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	20
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	19
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	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
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	12
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	11
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	10
“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
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	10
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning: a book review	10
Ethno-STEM approach for positioning indigenous knowledge systems in secondary schools mathematics pedagogy of South Africa	10
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	10
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	9
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	7
The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	7
STEM learning as care work	7
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	7

Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	7
'Community sensemaking': community-based participatory research to develop Indigenous adolescents' ethnic identity by integrating Rukai TEK of water within a STEAM curriculum	7
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	6
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
Cultivating Black girls’ science identities in middle and secondary science classrooms	6
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	6
The sociocultural practices in a science classroom and the influence on Black girls’ girlhood	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	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
Cultural decolonization and implications for pedagogy in integrating STEM-IKS education in the Global South	5
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	4
Christian religious and scientific views and forms of human–nature relationship in biology teachers	4
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	4
Ninth-grade students’ interactions and co-construction of arguments during a teaching unit on soil science	4
From teaching for war to acknowledging vulnerability: a cartography of gender and mistake-handling in mathematics education	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	4
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	4
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	4
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	4
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	3
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	3
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	3
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	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
Unclouding judgment: advocating for greater attention to cognitive biases in socioscientific decision-making on climate change	3
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	3
A whale of a time: engaging in a war of values for youth activism in science education	3
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	3
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	3
Conceptualizing and introducing historically relevant science pedagogy as a pedagogical tool for STEM education	3
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	3
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	3
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	3
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
Call for applications: co–editor-in-chief	3
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	3
Teachers’ beliefs about language in science: Customizing science curricula to center emergent multilingual learners’ sensemaking	3
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	3
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
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
A manifesto to young activist scientists and science educators: toward pluriversal sciences and science educations within bioregions and communities	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	2
“For whom? By whom?”: critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science	2
How microblogging affords conditions for realising student voices about the body and sexuality in a science education lesson	2
Promoting linguistic equity: multilingual students’ multimodal meaning making of culture of scientific practices	2
Beadmaking as a pedagogical site: transcending the traditional walls between the academy and the community	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience	2
Narratives of learning in a permacultural cooperative: some inspiring ideas for science education in the light of Freire's pedagogy	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
The identity turn in science education research: a critical review of methodologies in a consolidating field	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
Revisiting the Philippine archaic measurement system: cultural integration with science literacy and education	2