Journal of Curriculum Studies

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A cultural turn in educational action and research65
Complex outcomes of recontextualised history: comparing lower secondary national curricula in Sweden, England and Finland26
Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession20
Powerful knowledge in the social studies classroom and beyond17
Beholding Hong Kong Today? Justifying Securitization through (De)Politicization: A Content Analysis of Liberal Studies Textbooks17
Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform15
Grounded collaborative learning: on the misperceived relevance of philosophy in Africa14
Differentiating agents , differentiated patients : the production of subjects and knowledge(s) in theorizing differentiation in education13
Conducting research on teacher professional development in partnership with educators: promises, tensions and opportunities13
Reflections on sociological approaches to the question of knowledge in education13
Multi-perspectivity and the risk of perpetration minimisation in Dutch Holocaust and slavery education12
Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: a qualitative study addressing the urgent need for environmental education12
Taking modelling beyond ‘teaching morally’ and ‘teaching morality’12
Lesson analysis and plan template: scaffolding preservice teachers’ application of professional knowledge to lesson planning12
“Us” vs. “Them”: a systematic analysis of history textbooks in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina across three ethnic educational programmes11
Representation, Race and Empire: a Postcolonial Analysis of the New York Global History Regents exam11
Junior-secondary Chinese history curricula in Hong Kong and mainland China: two patterns of approach hybridization9
Classroom observation as a means of understanding teaching quality: towards a shared language of teaching?8
Historical thinking, historical knowledge and ideas about the future8
School history, identity and ethnicity: an examination of the experiences of young adults in England8
IB-PYP curriculum and teachers’ roles within IB-PYP7
Overwhelming whiteness: a critical analysis of race in a scripted reading curriculum7
Understanding citizenship education in Morocco: teachers’ beliefs, curriculum constraints, and pedagogical realities7
Autonomy in the spaces: teacher autonomy, scripted lessons, and the changing role of teachers7
Modernism, modernity and contemporality: conceptualizing the modern in Scotland’s modern studies7
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities: implications of school context on a continuum of curriculum-making possibilities7
The racism of Maria Montessori7
Belonging and participation as portrayed in the curriculum guidelines of five European countries7
Teachers as national curriculum makers: does involvement equal influence?7
Materialities of progressive curriculum reform: a case study of one kindergarten classroom7
From powerful knowledge to powerful thinking: On how to empower students through pedagogy and curriculum6
Fostering mutual understanding through multiperspectivity: insights from 14 cross-border history education initiatives in post-conflict societies6
Knowledge and curriculum: towards an educational and Didaktik /curriculum way of thinking and theorizing6
Fostering complex historical understandings: a study of Estonian pupils’ epistemic cognition and learning experiences6
Pre-service teachers’ understanding of sacrificial listening as a pedagogical framework6
“The king will be corrupt too!” Teaching thinking in bible studies6
The relationship between opportunities to learn in teacher education and Chinese preservice teachers’ professional competence6
Social realism, knowledge and curriculum: furthering the conversation5
Trajectories of powerful knowledge and epistemic quality: analysing the transformations from disciplines across school subjects5
Reframing curriculum for religious education5
Multicultural teacher knowledge: examining curriculum informed by teacher and student experiences of diversity5
Mapping moral consciousness in research on historical consciousness and education - a summative content analysis of 512 research articles published between 1980 and 20205
Enacting powerful knowledge: overcoming the chasm of curriculum and teaching through teacher professionalism5
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory5
Powerful knowledge, school subjects and the curriculum: an international and comparative perspective5
Achieving excellence and equality in mathematics: two degrees of freedom?5
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement5
Indigenous language curriculum revival: an emancipatory education analysis of Taiwanese Indigenous language policy and textbooks5
English Language Arts curriculum design and use: pre-service teachers’ perspectives and interpretations4
Children’s agentic capacity, schoolification and risk: competing discourses and young children’s experiences in pre-school settings4
Teacher modelling as a way to foster Bildung in vocational education: a multi-method curriculum study4
Reinventing character education: the potential for participatory character education using MacIntyre’s ethics4
Teachers and scholars as counterhegemonic intellectuals? Their perspectives on ethnic diversity in textbooks in China4
The curriculum of Frankenstein: or the education of a monster4
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton4
A “life of optimism” in curriculum, teaching, and teacher education: the legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz4
Mass upper-secondary and tertiary education: the consequences for schooling and the curriculum4
List of Reviewers4
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 points4
Show and tell: scaffolding practices in lower secondary social science classrooms3
Acknowledgements3
Itinerant curriculum theory from the Global South: a new grammar curriculum from México Profundo/Gran México3
Half a mathematician? How preservice teachers are connected to their studied discipline3
Competence-based curriculum implementation in Africa: a scoping review of pedagogical and assessment practices3
Working in the shadows: differentiation processes through and beyond the curriculum. Introduction to the special issue3
Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship3
Correction3
Advancing citizenship through language arts education: conceptions of rhetoric in Scandinavian national curricula3
The devil’s finest trick: routines that make teachers matter against their better judgement3
A forgotten chapter in the history of Nordic educational theory: J.V. Snellman’s theory of Bildung2
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism: an exploration of teachers’ conceptions of citizenship in Turkey2
Life skills education in secondary language classrooms: Empathy, communication and interpersonal relations2
On content transformation in the classroom: transdisciplinary perspectives on subject didactic research using didactic case studies2
Making the invisible visible: introducing the Pico site of curriculum making at Initial Teacher Education2
Colourism and indigeneity: the portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in EFL textbooks in Algeria2
Conceptualizing United States democracy: insights from government content standards2
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration2
Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities2
Competence-Oriented Curricula and the Promotion of Bildung: the example of philosophy teaching in Norway2
The purposes of historical canons in multicultural history education2
Teaching multicultural history in Finland: the views and practices of history teachers in Finland2
Correction2
Suffering and misery in history is not a tragic story: the ethical education of seeing differences between narratives2
Teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions predicts their levels of stress in primary schools in Germany2
The importance of teachers’ pedagogical-psychological teaching knowledge for successful teaching and learning2
Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-20192
Examining Charles Darwin’s (Mis)representation within science and history curricula1
From entrepreneurship to business & management education. A fundamental curriculum shift or tinkering at the edges?1
Exploring the association between distributed leadership and student achievement: the mediation role of teacher professional practices and teacher self-efficacy1
Tracing teachers’ change of pedagogical design capacity through professional development1
The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong1
Sinophobia + Sinocentrism— An AsianCrit Analysis of the US Military's Wartime Curricular [Re]racialization of Chinese [Americans]1
Beyond Deweyian perspective! Applicability of Experience-Based Cyclical Curriculum Design1
Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England and Finland1
Minding the gaps: the politics of differentiation in Swedish education from 1842 to the 1960s1
If images could speak: A social semiotics analysis of gender representation in science textbook images1
Social realism and school history: the role of the historical discipline in substantive knowledge selection1
Correction1
Conceptualizing powerful knowledge in economics1
Elementary teachers’ agency: the role of perceived professional space and autonomy1
Exploring the competency-based approach curriculum in secondary education in Mali with the core players’ experiences1
Secret, sacred, and cover stories: four rural elementary music teachers’ assessment practices in China1
Design and validation of initial diagnostic tests for preservice teachers as a tool for teacher education effectiveness1
Teaching Racial History: Enacting Curriculum in Discretionary Spaces1
Correction1
Vygotsky’s perezhivanies with Dewey’s occupations: Improving integration of teaching and assessing via creative learning units1
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context1
Exploring student teacher professional agency across two universities in Brazil and Finland1
Connecting disciplinary knowledge content and students’ lifeworld experience: understanding history teachers as curriculum makers1
Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks1
Children’s existential questions – recognized in Scandinavian curricula, or not?1
The power of exemplarity in religious education1
The palimpsests of knowledge1
Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the classroom: Exploring the racial pedagogical decision making of PK-12 teachers1
Five visions of competence-based education and curricula as travelling policies: a systematic research review 1997–20221
Teachers’ sense-making and adapting of the national curriculum: a multiple case study in Turkish and Swedish contexts1
Students’ resistance to learning mathematics through investigations1
The demise of subject-specific teacher education in England1
Holocaust education in the post-secular era: Religious-Zionist lessons from the Holocaust1
Participation in national curriculum reform - coherence from complexity1
School principals as translators – examining Swedish school principals’ translations of the standards-based curriculum1
Knowledge without disciplines: a critique of social realism’s disciplinary fixation1
Teachers transformation of curricula in Swedish adult education and its implications for the purpose of education1
Subject didactic knowledge (SDK). A heuristic model based on a theory of functional and personal facets of subject-matter education (SME) and its empirical implications1
(Un)Settling the Black-White Binary: Korean American and Immigrant Youth Navigating Racial Discourse in School Curriculum1
Construct overlap in cross-national assessment: critical thinking in the teacher education curricula of two countries1
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 20081
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