OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory and Research in Social Education 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
TRSE 50^th anniversary call for papers	36
Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations	27
Agency, racism, and what they mean for early childhood and elementary social studies	24
Pulling together: Participatory modes and Indigenous roads to enact anticolonial responsibility in social studies research	21
Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions	20
Troubling “active”: Elementary teacher candidates’ framing of active vs. passive citizenship	19
Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach	18
“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada	14
Financial citizenship education and the elusive power of critical inquiry	14
Eugenic ideology and the world history curriculum: How eugenic beliefs structure narratives of development and modernity	13
Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan	13
The Nakba in Israeli history education: Ethical judgments in an ongoing conflict	12
“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches	11
Reviewer acknowledgments	10
Embracing the interdisciplinary nature of psychology: Challenging the increasing dismissiveness of high school psychology as a social studies course	9
We’ve always dreamed of our freedom: Anti-Blackness, young people’s power, and visions for a more just world	9
The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions	9
How do the Chinese Gaokao tests narrate the history of other countries? A textual analysis of “the other” in official representations of history	9
A pivotal read for a populist moment Political education in times of populism: Towards a radical democratic education , by Edda Sant, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave-Macmill	7
Refining criteria for civic inquiry: An analysis of inquiry design model lessons	7
Imparting truths and yielding critical reflections in social studies classrooms	7
Radical futures through organized (re)membering	6
Diving into elementary social studies instruction: What teachers report is happening	6
We, too, sing America: Preparing a new generation of active citizens	6
Principles, pedagogies, and possibilities for revisioning the primary grades curriculum toward social justice and sustainability	6

Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	6
Haunted by hope: (Re)tracing the complexities embedded within assemblages of violence	6
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	5
From criticality to shame: Childhood memories of social class and how they matter to elementary school teachers and teaching	5
(Un)critical geographies of race: A critical race discourse analysis of an online local history resource	5
Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion *Making classroom discussions work: Methods for quality dialogue in the social studies*	5
Reviewer Acknowledgements	5
Civic and citizenship education in context: The influence of IEA studies on national curricula	5
Precarious statuses and the legal regulation of citizenship: implications for civic education	5
“We will continue our struggle for success”: French Canadian students, narrative, and historical consciousness	5
Becoming activists for racial justice: A renewed purpose for learning about the past in K–12 education	5
“Conversation is everything”: How teachers and students create environments where open discussion can thrive	4
Toward a framework for assessing the quality of students’ social scientific reasoning	4
What has changed in social studies education? Racial literacy scholarship as enactments of hope for social studies education Racial lite	4
A historical-philosophical case for ethnoracial school integration Integrations: The struggle for racial equality and civic renewal in public education , by Lawrence Blu	4
Theorizing mimesis across social studies contexts of mimicry, imitation, and simulation	4
Courageously, creatively, and collectively mapping (re)new(ed) paths forward: Mobilizing theory-stories to imagine potentials for social studies education	3
Civic education in informal settings: Black voluntary associations as schools for democracy, 1898-1959	3
Youth participatory action research in your classroom: Teaching and learning for active citizenship	3
“There’s something wrong in society”: Teaching for racial civic literacy using young adult fiction	3
Toward a more empathic, connected, and humanizing democracy: A civics curriculum centering listening and storytelling	2
Deconstructing our imperialist history *How to hide an empire: A history of the greater United States* , by D. Immerwahr, Picador, 2020,	2
What do social studies methods instructors know and do? Teacher educators’ PCK for facilitating historical discussions	2
Developing accountability and responsibility: How teacher candidates experience and conceptualize community-based pedagogy in the social studies	2
Reviewer acknowledgments	2
History is critical: Addressing the false dichotomy between historical inquiry and criticality	2
Navigating “big feelings” in teaching and learning difficult histories: Pedagogical reasoning about students’ emotional potentialities	2
“If they were white and middle class”: The possessive investment in whiteness in U.S. History textbooks’ portrayal of 20th-century social democratic reforms	2
Teaching young people more than “how to survive austerity”: From traditional financial literacy to critical economic literacy education	2
Embracing queer: Possibilities for gender and sexuality expansiveness in history education	1
“Algunas personas aquí han venido con coyote como Areli?”: Conceptualizing the Latine civic counternarrative through diverse children’s literature	1
“Technology inevitably involves trade-offs”: The framing of technology in social studies standards	1
Combatting violent extremism through our social studies classes *Hate in the homeland: The new global far right* , by Cynthia Miller-Idr	1
Aspiring nepantleras: Conceptualizing social studies education from the rupture/la herida abierta	1
Being a good citizen in a postcolonial context: Justice-oriented citizenship implications of Nigerian teachers’ civic education ideologies	1
U.S. history state assessment items: Exploring the income–achievement gap and levels of academic language, historical thinking, and historical literacy demand	1
What kind of affective citizen? An analysis of state social emotional learning standards	1
A roadmap for global, humanizing, and collaborative civic education	1
Developing a better understating of the pedagogical value and potential of global events	1
The meaning of citizenship: Identifying the beliefs of teachers responsible for citizenship education in Chile	1
“Like someone’s got you”: External supports for youth activists and intersectional justice	1
Resisting oversimplification in pursuit of nuanced learning	1
What is the word “difficult” doing in social studies research?: A systematic literature review of empirical research on difficult knowledges and histories, 2004–2022	1
Beyond grits and sweet tea: Understanding the complexities of teaching & learning in the U.S. South	1
History as an untold story within a story: Confronting the myth of “a nation of immigrants”	1