OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies of Science Education is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	27
A(n) (re)awakening: preservice teachers connecting their culture to science teaching along the US–México border	25
Science educators cannot remain silent: a call for Palestinian solidarity	23
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	22
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	21
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	20
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	20
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	17
Inclusive pedagogies in higher STEM education: a critical review	15
Literacy as an operation of scientific sensemaking in middle school science instruction: a CHAT analysis	13
Among protective equipment, test tubes and spectrometers: material dysfunctionality and how matter matters	13
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	12
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	12
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	12
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	11
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	11
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	10
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning: a book review	10
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	10
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	9
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	8
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	8
Ethno-STEM approach for positioning indigenous knowledge systems in secondary schools mathematics pedagogy of South Africa	8
Towards understanding identity as a queer and political performance: an analytical framework applied in the context of computer science education	8
'Community sensemaking': community-based participatory research to develop Indigenous adolescents' ethnic identity by integrating Rukai TEK of water within a STEAM curriculum	7

STEM learning as care work	7
The sociocultural practices in a science classroom and the influence on Black girls’ girlhood	7
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	7
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	7
Cultivating Black girls’ science identities in middle and secondary science classrooms	7
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	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	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
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	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	5
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	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
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
Call for applications: co–editor-in-chief	4
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	4
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	4
Christian religious and scientific views and forms of human–nature relationship in biology teachers	4
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	4
From teaching for war to acknowledging vulnerability: a cartography of gender and mistake-handling in mathematics education	4
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	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
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	4
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	4
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	4