OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Research in Social Education is 5. 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
TRSE 50^th anniversary call for papers	40
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
Troubling “active”: Elementary teacher candidates’ framing of active vs. passive citizenship	21
Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions	21
“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada	19
Eugenic ideology and the world history curriculum: How eugenic beliefs structure narratives of development and modernity	19
Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan	15
The Nakba in Israeli history education: Ethical judgments in an ongoing conflict	14
Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach	14
“If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches	13
Financial citizenship education and the elusive power of critical inquiry	13
Between maintaining teacher impartiality and protecting student dignity: Teachers’ responses to unacceptable student speech about politically sensitive issues in France and Quebec	13
Reviewer acknowledgments	11
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	9
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	8
Imparting truths and yielding critical reflections in social studies classrooms	8
Refining criteria for civic inquiry: An analysis of inquiry design model lessons	8
How do the Chinese Gaokao tests narrate the history of other countries? A textual analysis of “the other” in official representations of history	7
The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions	7
Diving into elementary social studies instruction: What teachers report is happening	7
Radical futures through organized (re)membering	6
List of Reviewers for October 1, 2024–October 1, 2025	6

Principles, pedagogies, and possibilities for revisioning the primary grades curriculum toward social justice and sustainability	6
Social studies education research for sustainable democratic societies: Addressing persistent civic challenges	6
We, too, sing America: Preparing a new generation of active citizens	6
Teachers stepping up their game in the face of extreme statements: A qualitative analysis of educational friction when teaching sensitive topics	6
Deepening practices and possibilities for classroom discussion *Making classroom discussions work: Methods for quality dialogue in the social studies*	5
Reviewer Acknowledgements	5
Becoming activists for racial justice: A renewed purpose for learning about the past in K–12 education	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
From criticality to shame: Childhood memories of social class and how they matter to elementary school teachers and teaching	5
Civic and citizenship education in context: The influence of IEA studies on national curricula	5