OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Review is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
List of reviewers for Educational Review 2022	82
The solidarity bind: narratives on fractures in solidarity and internalised racism in HE	73
Opening up learning environments: liking school among students in reformed learning spaces	70
School transition difficulty in Scotland and Ireland: a longitudinal perspective	59
Why was inquiry practice not there? Analysis of demand-resource empirics of classroom pedagogy	43
Are teachers absent more? Examining differences in absence between K-12 teachers and other college-educated workers	41
Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of Tackling the Blues	35
Former young mothers’ pathways through higher education: a chance to rethink the narrative	35
Professional learning and identities in teaching: international narratives of successful teachers	32
Emotional and critical citizens: Portuguese students’ engagement with wicked issues in contemporary EU policy	29
The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China	28
Mental health and gender discourses in school: “Emotional” girls and boys “at risk”	27
A liberal education: the social and political impact of the modern university	25
Surviving carelessness and disposability in British higher education: the gendered and racialised emotional labours of academic migration	25
Family-preschool relationship and family engagement in distance preschool education in the time of COVID-19 in Chile: toward a change of Principals' mentality?	20
Classroom assistant roles and deployment models: an international scoping review	19
Correction	19
Moral injury in teaching: the systemic roots of ethical conflict and emotional burnout in education	19
Performer versus caring professional: identity conflicts of preschool teachers in the context of performative culture in mainland China	18
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England	18
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”: Insights from the South African school curriculum	18
Leaving Chinese internationalised schools: expatriate teachers’ experiences of career transitions	17
Transformative teaching around the world: stories of cultural impact, technology integration, and innovative pedagogy	16
Gender in an era of post-truth populism: pedagogies, challenges and strategies	16
Education for development: professional commitments and practices among Tibetan teachers in Northwest China	16

Supporting social inclusion of refugees: a funds of knowledge approach	15
Towards the compassionate university: from golden thread to global impact	15
After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew up our politics—and how to fix it After the Ivory Tower Falls - How college broke the American dream and blew	15
Making a mass institution: Indianapolis and the American high school	15
Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective	15
Unpacking the logics of gendered educational choices: 10th graders’ evaluation of appropriate educational tracks	14
The hybridisation of adolescents’ worlds as a source of developmental tensions: a study of discursive manifestations of contradictions	14
Who’s checkin’ for Black girls and women in the “pandemic within a pandemic”? COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and educational implications	14
Exploring early childhood practitioners’ perceptions of empathy with children and families: initial findings	14
Learning with Indigenous wisdom in a time of multiple crises: embodied and emplaced early childhood pedagogies	14
Educating refugee-background students: critical issues and dynamic contexts	13
Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	13
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll	13
Resilience, advocacy and scholar-activism: responding to COVID-19 in Kenyan, Mexican and British universities	12
Together and apart: co-teaching in the time of COVID-19	12
Culture, power, and ideology: the purpose and value of physical education (PE) in alternative provision schools in England	12
Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Chinese university: rhetoric and reality Understanding the professional agency of female language teachers in a Ch	12
Decolonising community education and development; understanding the past, learning for the future	11
Social leadership in early childhood education and care: an introduction	11
Student councils as a safety valve for school values: the relativism of participation rights in Jewish national religious schools for girls	11
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education	11
Emergent trends in comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local	11
International L2 students’ engagement with teacher feedback: perspectives from a globalised higher education context	11
Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance Pedagogy of resistance: against manufactured ignorance , by Henry A. Giroux, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 28	11
Countering antisemitism through Holocaust education. A comparative perspective on Scotland and Austria	10
Not for proft: why democracy needs the humanities	10
Decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education: bringing decolonial theory into contact with teaching practice	10
A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes	10
Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England	10
Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?	9
Public policy and universities: the interplay of knowledge and power	9
Educational technology for learners with disabilities in primary school settings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	9
Income inequality and student achievement: trends among US States (1992–2019)	9
Beyond standards: the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform	8
Intersectionality in US educational research: visibilizing the historically excluded and under-recognized experiences of disabled girls of color	8
The career prospects of migrant, female academics from minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK’s higher education sector: an integrative review of peer-reviewed literature	8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Motivational factors and course difficulty as predictors of teaching evaluations: a study of U.S. undergraduates	8
Neoliberalisation and educational reforms: impacts on teachers in a single school context	8
Virtues, values and the fracturing of civic and moral virtue in citizenship education policy in England	8
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies	7
Implementing digital technologies in the school setting – how does it relate to work environment?	7
The struggle for a multilingual future: youth and education in Sri Lanka	7
Navigating technology in the classroom: a scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings	7
Decentring the West in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: towards a framework for critical reflection on curriculum and teaching	7
What do New Zealand teachers and principals perceive is happening for English as an additional language students with the changing architecture of New Zealand schools?	7
Mind the aspiration gap: how primary school pupils perceive their future adult selves and the perspectives and expectations of parents and teachers	7
Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond	7
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	7
Pandemic pedagogies, practices and future possibilities: emerging professional adjustments to the working practices of university teacher educators	6
Learning from autistic teachers: lessons about change in an era of COVID-19	6

Pupils’ informal social strategies in a Swedish compulsory school – What pupils do and say, out of sight of the teachers, while managing written individual assignments	6
Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education	6
Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools	6
Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doc	6
Teaching practicum research in Finland: a scoping review	6
Supporting students to engage with case studies: a model of engagement principles	6
Language teacher identity tensions: nexus of agency, emotion and investment	6
Making your doctoral research project ambitious: Developing large-scale studies with real-world impact	6
China’s approach to inward student mobility since 1949: an analysis of the state’s role from historical and political economy perspectives	6
Educational performance pressure and mental ill-being: the case of Danish primary and lower secondary schools, 1975–2024	6
Systemic vulnerability as a lens to explore young people’s experiences of transition from alternative provision settings to post-16 mainstream education	6
Sustainability of the Spanish university system during the pandemic caused by COVID-19	6
International teachers’ lived experiences: examining internationalised schooling in Shanghai	6
Collective voices making change: a literature review of black youth activism in the United States	6
Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools: counter-narratives from racially minoritised teachers	6
From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom From assessment to feedback: applications in the second/foreign language classroom , b	6
Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love Reading autoethnography: reflections on justice and love , by James M. Salvo, New York, Routledge, 2020, 154 pp.	5
Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning	5
“Taking off the shackles”: the joy, freedom and gravitational pull of low-stakes curriculum innovation within a high-stakes assessment framework	5
Addressing underachievement and early school leaving in Europe: the role of institutional factors	5
Embracing complexity: rethinking education inspection in England	5
Racism, Islamophobia and trust in schools: perceptions of diversity in schools in Barcelona	5
Desiring-futures in education policy: assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s futures of education	5
Masculinity and emotionality in education: critical reflections on discourses of boys’ behaviour and mental health	5
School leaders navigating student wellbeing: the interplay between academic achievement and economic logics in Danish schools	5
An evaluation of the factors that influence academic success as defined by engaged students	5
The development and impact of teachers’ collective agency during Covid-19: insights from online classrooms in Canada and China	5
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: pedagogies of hope and social justice	4
Nine guiding principles for women in higher education	4
Emoji in higher education: a healthcare-based perspective	4
Culturally sensitive research methods for educational administration and leadership	4
On learning: a general theory of objects and object-relations	4
Equity and inclusion in work-integrated learning: participation and outcomes for diverse student groups	4
Threat or necessity: an analysis of the development of International Baccalaureate education in Shanghai	4
School exclusion to family inclusion: case study of a systemic multi-family school approach to school exclusion	4
“ We Have to Charge Levies, Else We Will Close Down the Schools ”. Delivering Ghana’s education capitation grant programme within chronic resource constraints: impacts a	4
Parental engagement and student acquisition of literacy skills in primary classrooms in Fiji	3
The unteachables: disability rights and the invention of black special education The unteachables: disability rights and the invention of black special education , by Ke	3
Bullying and cyberbullying: a bibliometric analysis of three decades of research in education	3
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England	3
Parents’ (dis)satisfaction with schools: evidence from longitudinal administrative data from Spain	3
Sad little men: private schools and the ruin of England; Posh boys: how English public schools ruin Britain Sad little men: private schools and the ruin of England , by	3
Taking Care of Youth and the Generations	3
Neoliberalism and early childhood education: Markets, imaginaries and governance	3
Acculturation and linguistic ideology in the context of global student mobility: a cross-cultural ethnography of anglophone international students in China	3
Preparing student teachers post-pandemic: lessons learnt from principals and teachers in New Zealand and Germany	3
The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30 The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30 , by Elizabeth Aries, Temple Univer	3
Domains of quality in early childhood education and care: A scoping review of the extent and consistency of the literature	3
A double bind: youth activism, climate change, and education	3
Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence Dire Straits - Education Reforms: ideology, vested interests and evidence , by Montserrat Gomen	3
Competency and affective skill outcomes for 11–19-year-olds through progressive and reconstructionist pedagogies: a systematic review	3
Fascism on trial. Education and the possibility of democracy	3
Educational research practice in southern contexts: recentring, reframing and reimagining methodological canons	3
Exploring single black mothers’ resistance through homeschooling	3
Equity not equality: the undocumented migrant child’s opportunity to access education in South Africa	3
Examining the role of institutional agents and school-based social capital in minority university choice and access	3
Linking theory and practice in language teacher education: A comparative review	3
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education: teacher researchers and graduate student researchers as co-constructive narrative inquirers	3
Is being clever enough? Young people’s construction of the ideal student in computer science education	3
Psychoeducational groups: process and practice	3
“I had to be a mother”: foundation phase male teachers negotiating masculinity in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa	3
International student mobility in higher education: case studies in agency	3
Gender equality matters: a precious “GEM” to tackle gender inequality through a whole-school community educational programme	3
Uncovering home education in Italy: characteristics, motives, and pedagogic practices	3