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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Curriculum Studies is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Teachers’ views on students’ multilingual resources - tracking the impact of curriculum reform	73
A cultural turn in educational action and research	32
The elusive content of children’s human rights education	27
Compatibility of physical education curricula with physical literacy across 40 European countries	24
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland	23
Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession	22
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks	21
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform	18
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa	17
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’	16
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education	15
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education	15
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam	14
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes	13
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities	13
Differentiating agents , differentiated patients : the production of subjects and knowledge(s) in theorizing differentiation in education	12
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning	10
Multi-perspectivity and the risk of perpetration minimisation in Dutch Holocaust and slavery education	10
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond	10
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future	9
The racism of Maria Montessori	9
School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England	9
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization	9
Overwhelming whiteness: a critical analysis of race in a scripted reading curriculum	8
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?	8

IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP	8
Fostering mutual understanding through multiperspectivity: insights from 14 cross-border history education initiatives in post-conflict societies	7
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing	7
Understanding citizenship education in Morocco: teachers’ beliefs, curriculum constraints, and pedagogical realities	7
From powerful knowledge to powerful thinking: On how to empower students through pedagogy and curriculum	7
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers	7
The mathematics classroom as junkspace: a conceptual critique of educational spatiality	7
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities	7
Fostering complex historical understandings: a study of Estonian pupils’ epistemic cognition and learning experiences	7
Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies	7
“The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies	7
Teachers as national curriculum makers: does involvement equal influence?	7
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence	6
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism	6
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?	6
Powerful knowledge, school subjects and the curriculum: an international and comparative perspective	6
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects	6
A comparative analysis of Foundation and early primary years mathematics curricula: insights from Australia and South Africa	6
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity	6
Materialities of progressive curriculum reform: a case study of one kindergarten classroom	6
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework	6
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation	6
English Language Arts curriculum design and use: pre-service teachers’ perspectives and interpretations	5
Reframing curriculum for religious education	5
List of Reviewers	5
The curriculum of Frankenstein: or the education of a monster	5
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement	5
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory	5
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz	5
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study	5
Mass upper-secondary and tertiary education: the consequences for schooling and the curriculum	5
Teachers and scholars as counterhegemonic intellectuals? Their perspectives on ethnic diversity in textbooks in China	5
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings	5
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton	5
Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship	4
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue	4
Half a mathematician? How preservice teachers are connected to their studied discipline	4
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México	4
John Dewey and the project method: the covered controversy with William H. Kilpatrick	4
Correction	4
Competence-based curriculum implementation in Africa: a scoping review of pedagogical and assessment practices	4
How does pre-service teachers’ general pedagogical knowledge develop during university teacher education? Examining the impact of learning opportunities and entry characteristics over five time points	4
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement	4
Correction	3
Life skills education in secondary language classrooms: Empathy, communication and interpersonal relations	3
Teaching multicultural history in Finland: the views and practices of history teachers in Finland	3
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism: an exploration of teachers’ conceptions of citizenship in Turkey	3
Colourism and indigeneity: the portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in EFL textbooks in Algeria	3
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration	3
Conceptualizing United States democracy: insights from government content standards	3

Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-2019	2
Show and tell: scaffolding practices in lower secondary social science classrooms	2
On content transformation in the classroom: transdisciplinary perspectives on subject didactic research using didactic case studies	2
Suffering and misery in history is not a tragic story: the ethical education of seeing differences between narratives	2
Secret, sacred, and cover stories: four rural elementary music teachers’ assessment practices in China	2
The importance of teachers’ pedagogical-psychological teaching knowledge for successful teaching and learning	2
Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities	2
From entrepreneurship to business & management education. A fundamental curriculum shift or tinkering at the edges?	2
A forgotten chapter in the history of Nordic educational theory: J.V. Snellman’s theory of Bildung	2
Competence-Oriented Curricula and the Promotion of Bildung: the example of philosophy teaching in Norway	2
The purposes of historical canons in multicultural history education	2
Teaching the Holocaust to minoritized students: when is recasting difficult history as redemptive a problem?	2
Beyond binaries: rethinking student-led civics through culturally relevant, socially bridging, and tactically effective choices	2
The un-hidden curriculum: ethnographic findings on socialization at school entry that challenge the notion of the hidden curriculum	2
Controversial for whom? Reconsidering controversial issue discussion and deliberation in education for democracy	2
Exploring the association between distributed leadership and student achievement: the mediation role of teacher professional practices and teacher self-efficacy	2
Making the invisible visible: introducing the Pico site of curriculum making at Initial Teacher Education	2
Five visions of competence-based education and curricula as travelling policies: a systematic research review 1997–2022	2
Teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions predicts their levels of stress in primary schools in Germany	2
Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the classroom: Exploring the racial pedagogical decision making of PK-12 teachers	2
Construct overlap in cross-national assessment: critical thinking in the teacher education curricula of two countries	1
‘So… like I’m responsible for ending war?’: centering anti-war activism in our teaching of war	1
Correction	1
Teachers transformation of curricula in Swedish adult education and its implications for the purpose of education	1
Holocaust education in the post-secular era: Religious-Zionist lessons from the Holocaust	1
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context	1
Conceptualizing powerful knowledge in economics	1
Minding the gaps: the politics of differentiation in Swedish education from 1842 to the 1960s	1
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England	1
Participation in national curriculum reform - coherence from complexity	1
Exploring the competency-based approach curriculum in secondary education in Mali with the core players’ experiences	1
Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks	1
Exploring student teacher professional agency across two universities in Brazil and Finland	1
Teacher expectations and ethnic minority students’ second language and foreign language learning	1
Educating youths to be participatory citizens in a democracy? A comparative study of the curriculum Guidelines of senior high school Civics in Japan in 1956–2020s	1
Teaching Racial History: Enacting Curriculum in Discretionary Spaces	1
Repeating and growing patterns in early mathematics textbooks	1
The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong	1
Intersecting shadows: examining the dynamics between formal and shadow curricula in Türkiye	1
Integrative teaching and learning: reflections of a complex world in the curricula of primary teacher education programs	1
Beyond fragmentation in subject didactics and curriculum studies: consensus and contention in research designs	1
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 2008	1
Knowledge without disciplines: a critique of social realism’s disciplinary fixation	1
Correction	1
Vygotsky’s perezhivanies with Dewey’s occupations: Improving integration of teaching and assessing via creative learning units	1
The palimpsests of knowledge	1
Beyond Deweyian perspective! Applicability of Experience-Based Cyclical Curriculum Design	1
Connecting disciplinary knowledge content and students’ lifeworld experience: understanding history teachers as curriculum makers	1
Social realism and school history: the role of the historical discipline in substantive knowledge selection	1
Tracing teachers’ change of pedagogical design capacity through professional development	1
Reconceptualizing open schooling: towards a multidimensional model of school openness	1
A framework for curricular analysis of powerful knowledge: comparing school biology in England, Finland and Sweden	1
Educational reforms and political polarization: competing visions of citizenship education and youth engagement in Poland	1
Teacher education effectiveness as an emerging research paradigm: a synthesis of reviews of empirical studies published over three decades (1993–2023)	1
The power of exemplarity in religious education	1
Place, culture and learning: a review to inform education outside the classroom in Greenland	1
Design and validation of initial diagnostic tests for preservice teachers as a tool for teacher education effectiveness	1
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland	1
Examining Charles Darwin’s (Mis)representation within science and history curricula	1
Correction	1
Subject didactic knowledge (SDK). A heuristic model based on a theory of functional and personal facets of subject-matter education (SME) and its empirical implications	1
School principals as translators – examining Swedish school principals’ translations of the standards-based curriculum	1
Elementary teachers’ agency: the role of perceived professional space and autonomy	1
Teachers’ sense-making and adapting of the national curriculum: a multiple case study in Turkish and Swedish contexts	1
If images could speak: A social semiotics analysis of gender representation in science textbook images	1
Trauma, memory, and dialogic historical education: the case of Israel in 2024	1
Controversial issues in history teaching	1
(Un)Settling the Black-White Binary: Korean American and Immigrant Youth Navigating Racial Discourse in School Curriculum	1
Sinophobia + Sinocentrism— An AsianCrit Analysis of the US Military's Wartime Curricular [Re]racialization of Chinese [Americans]	1