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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education	29
‘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’	20
Making a drama out of a mental health crisis	14
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world	13
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion	12
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises	12
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson	10
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education	10
Towards a conceptualization of Computational Thinking as situated	9
Education for metaphysical animals	9
Gender diversities and sex education	8
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	8
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman	8
Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?	7
‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative	7
The Kantian origins of Sergei Rubinstein's theory of moral improvement	7
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Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung	7
The topicality of hermeneutics in music education	7
Consent and mutuality in sex education	6
Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education	6
A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England	6
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning	6
Towards a relevant African philosophy of education	5
Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions	5

Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)	5
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies	5
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice	5
Kant, casuistry and casuistical questions	5
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On LLM’s Capacity to Replace Human Teachers: A Lesson from the Mahabharata	5
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?	5
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière	5
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities	5
Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization	5
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing	5
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university	5
Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach	4
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters	4
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)	4
Seeing and saying	4
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education	4
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education	4
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy	4
Hannah Arendt and the post-truth era: rethinking political education	4
Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World	4
Language games in conversation: the ordinary as a site of criticism	4
Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now	3
Cognitive gain and the close reading of literature	3
‘I've got anxiety’	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Kant on wonder as the motive to learn	3
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn	3
A celebration of the writing and professional work of Paul Hirst: an introduction	3
Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education	3
Re-reading Kerschensteiner today: Doing VET in German vocational schools—A search for traces	3
Introduction to the suite: violence against women and girls and the education of voice	3
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Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher	3
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective	3
Autonomy and critique in the goal-oriented university: the paradox of teaching reflexivity	3
Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?	3
The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility	3
Subjects, disciplines, and practices	3
Sociability and education in Kant and Hessen	3
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth	3
‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’: Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma Williams	3
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory	3
Basic education as a collective good: In defence of the school as a public social institution	3
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview	3
Distributive values and disadvantaged potential high achievers	2
Preface	2
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate	2
Mental health, resilience and existential literature	2
Expressing an interest in mental health education	2

A different sense of place: care and curation in the university	2
Attending to Macbeth : Cultural therapy or therapy for culture?	2
Shadow students in Georgia: A Kantian condemnation	2
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy	2
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children	2
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education	2
Verifying the efficacy of eco-pedagogies during a climate crisis. Using Wittgenstein's post-foundationalism in defence of the shallow ground for arts-based and place-based environmental educati	2
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching	2
Tillson on religious initiation	2
Enlightenment as perfection, perfection as enlightenment? Kant on thinking for oneself and perfecting oneself	2
Academic Othering and the problem of I-centred philosophy of teaching	2
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods	2
Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education	2
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate	2
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education	2
Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton	2
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education	2
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice	2
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality	2