OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Philosophy of Education is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education	42
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion	18
‘Pointing the way’: Alex Bloom and A.S. Neill on the enduring necessity and enacted possibility of radical democratic education as ‘a method of life’	18
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education	17
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson	13
Vocational guidance in general and vocational education schools in Germany: The relevance of informed choice for successful vocational education and the legacy of Aloys Fischer	12
Teaching evolution in schools: a thin comprehensive liberal approach	11
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world	9
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises	9
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman	9
Gender diversities and sex education	9
Education for metaphysical animals	9
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities	8
Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung	8
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning	8
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A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England	8
Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?	8
Towards a conceptualization of computational thinking as situated	8
Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education	7
Consent and mutuality in sex education	7
‘What they have made of us’: the educational experience of Bildung in vocational education	7
Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization	7
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‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative	6

On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers: a lesson from the Mahabharata	6
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière	6
Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions	6
The spiralling life of Sámi children: whirls of organism and Indigenous relational philosophies	6
Towards a relevant African philosophy of education	6
The topicality of hermeneutics in music education	6
Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)	6
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university	5
Language games in conversation: the ordinary as a site of criticism	5
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?	5
Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach	5
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies	5
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing	5
Seeing and saying	5
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy	4
Against teaching propositional belief in higher education and the World Religions Paradigm	4
Stanley Cavell in Caracas: Excerpts from seminars and conversations with Victor J. Krebs and Maria Elena Ramos	4
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)	4
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice	4
Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World	4
Back to Socrates: on the significance of analogue pedagogy in the age of content	4
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education	4
Hannah Arendt and the post-truth era: rethinking political education	4
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters	4
Walden in Tokyo	4
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education	4
Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education	3
Distributive values and disadvantaged potential high achievers	3
Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?	3
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory	3
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn	3
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth	3
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Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now	3
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching	3
Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton	3
Tillson on religious initiation	3
The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility	3
A celebration of the writing and professional work of Paul Hirst: an introduction	3
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective	3
Introduction to the suite: violence against women and girls and the education of voice	3
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview	3
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education	3
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality	3
Stanley Cavell interviewed by Naoko Saito	3
A different sense of place: care and curation in the university	3
Re-reading Kerschensteiner today: Doing VET in German vocational schools—A search for traces	3
Subjects, disciplines, and practices	3
Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher	3
Autonomy and critique in the goal-oriented university: the paradox of teaching reflexivity	3

Academic Othering and the problem of I-centred philosophy of teaching	3
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods	2
Hitting bedrock: from multiculturalism to political education and self-knowledge	2
Ignorance: Aesthetic unlearning	2
A moral analysis of educational harm and student resistance	2
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism	2
Between Butes and the digital player: paradoxes of Eros	2
Questioning progress in times of ‘no future’: an editorial introduction to the suite	2
Reconsidering ritual in education	2
Cavell and the thought of other cultures: an introduction	2
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education	2
Paul Hirst and religious education’s curriculum question: or how Hirst never thought religion was a form of knowledge at all	2
Correction to ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)	2
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy	2
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate	2
Creating and sustaining democratic spaces in education	2
Activity Theory—An Introduction	2
‘Your days are over Casanova’: sexual violence, education and the ethics of literature in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace	2
Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading group	2
Does Mills’ epistemology suggest a hermeneutic injustice of White Afroscepticism?	2
Reframing inclusion. Analysis of the promises and limitations of Rancière’s work for inclusive education	2
Introduction to the Suite: Political education for human transformation	2
Protests’ children: reflections on children’s participation in political demonstrations	2
Verifying the efficacy of eco-pedagogies during a climate crisis: using Wittgenstein's post-foundationalism in defence of the shallow ground for arts-bas	2
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children	2
Corrections for ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Suissa & Sullivan (2021)	2
Kairos and phronesis in teaching well	2
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice	2
Enriching and extending the ecological perspective on teacher agency	2
Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education	2
Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice	2
Alternative(s): Better or just different?	2
Philosophy as a way of life for children: towards a transformative educational ethos	2
The paradox of epistemic ability profiling	2
Common sense and critical pedagogy	2
Educating Character Through the Arts	2
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education	2
Paul Hirst, liberal education and the postcolonial project	2
Crises of acknowledgement: oblique actions and ominous verbs	2
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate	2