OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Irish Educational 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inclusion of children with disabilities and special educational needs in physical education: an exploratory study of factors associated with Irish teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and school contex	38
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs	29
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university	29
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study	14
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum	12
Why are students attending fee-charging second-level schools in Ireland more likely to progress to high-demand university degree courses? Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal survey	11
Parental perspectives on the management of online learning and school readjustment for children with SEN during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and applications for possible school closures	11
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!	11
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models	11
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh	11
Same route, different destinations: a cluster analysis of student-teacher types among Palestinian student-teachers living in Israel	10
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?	10
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency	10
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach	10
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland	9
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development	9
Competition within a multi-campus, merged university – a zero-sum game?	9
School partnerships in a post-conflict society: addressing challenges of collaboration and competition	8
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland	8
Supporting early career teachers’ digital agency: a role for mentorship?	8
The social contexts of educational disadvantage: focus on the neighbourhood	8
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland	7
Foreword	7
Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network	7
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning	7

Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality	7
Why teachers matter	6
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges	6
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports	6
Mobilising the untapped in the present: a review and response to Karl Kitching Childhood, religion and school injustice , by Karl Kitching, Cork, Cork University Press,	6
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation	6
Diversifying the teaching profession	6
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography	6
‘No one knows where we fit in really’: the role of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) in primary school settings in Ireland – the case for a distributed model of leadership to support i	5
Unsupported and unrealistic expectations? Misalignment between teachers’ required knowledge of the law in the Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers and Céim Standards for Initial Teacher Education	5
School readiness of five-year-old children from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: evidence from the Preparing for Life evaluation	5
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research	5
Researching how student voice plays out in relation to classroom practice in Irish post-primary schools: a heuristic device	5
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education	5
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria	5
Working parents’ experiences of home-schooling during school closures in Northern Ireland: what lessons can be learnt?	5
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland	5
Editorial	4
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland	4
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture	4
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?	4
‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education	4
The DEIS programme as a policy aimed at combating educational disadvantage: fit for purpose?	4
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring	4
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools	4
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective	4
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme	4
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning	4
Teachers’ understanding of the concept of ‘embedding’ digital technology in education	3
FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students	3
ECCE teachers’ attitudes in Ireland towards including children with special educational needs	3
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid	3
Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–1968	3
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people	3
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness	3
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective	3
Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning , by Yun Wen, Yi-ju Wu, G	3
Project based learning in post-primary school in Ireland – a narrative literature review of the transition year programme to understand evolving digital spaces	3
No one is going to rock up and tell you ! How a hidden blend of family capitals facilitates access to and success in structured instrumental music education in Ireland	3
Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-2021) Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-202	3
Taming the imposter monster	3
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme	3
An analysis of Irish mathematics textbook tasks in the context of curriculum change	3
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school	3
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors	3
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development	3
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development	2
Barriers to student engagement:	2
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design	2
Teacher preparation in Scotland	2

Lockdown lessons learned. Reconceptualising a Sociology of Education module in ITE using a TPACKframework, optimising pedagogy, enhancing student outcomes through the provision of inclusive and access	2
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education	2
Education for collective intelligence	2
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis	2
Coping with the ‘new (ab)normal’ in school: an EMA study of youth coping with the return to in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Editorial	2
Leading schools in the face of great adversity	2
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice	2
Guerrilla teacher educators: identity considerations of school-based teacher educators in Ireland	2
Care and Capitalism	2
Let’s talk about class – exploring the everyday emotions and experiences of classism in Irish education: a thematic analysis of Irish Twitter conversations on class and education between 2018 and 2022	2
Social justice leadership in Irish schools: conceptualisations, supports and barriers	2
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools	2
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models	2
A scoping review of Future Skills frameworks	2
‘What's the magic word?’: mapping oral language interventions implemented in prevention and early intervention programmes	2
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners	2
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background	2
SSPAI 1993-2000: a history of the secondary school principals association of Ireland: a key pillar in the foundation of NAPD	2
Digital education futures: design for doing education differently	2
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods	2
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education	2
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning	2
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system	2
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school	2
A systematic literature review of home-school partnership for learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL): a way forward for the UK and Ireland	2
Ethno-cultural diversity in initial teacher education courses: the case of Ireland	1
Drama-based methodologies and teachers’ self-efficacy in reading instruction	1
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development	1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis	1
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms	1
Promoting academic resilience in DEIS schools	1
Teaching vocation or religious vocation: examining the changing identity of Irish teaching sisters c.1940–1970, an oral history approach	1
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education	1
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education	1
Student engagement in the Irish primary classroom: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage, student voice, and behavioural difficulties	1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice	1
Gendered expectations on the recognition of ADHD in young women and educational implications	1
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions	1
Teachers as media creators and prosumers: exploring the reasons & values behind their YouTube pedagogical activity	1
Editorial	1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery	1
Interpreting, translating, and embedding school curriculum in physical education teacher education: the need for collective action within and across the teacher education continuum	1
Purpose, focus and voice? Lessons from a curriculum development advisory committee	1
Initial teacher educators’ integrating iPads into their physical education teaching	1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy	1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm	1
Educationally maintained inequality? The role of risk factors and resilience at 9, 13 and 17 in disabled young people’s post-school pathways at 20	1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia	1
Gen Ed	1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland	1
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education	1
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project	1
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools – the Trinity Access approach	1
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career	1
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change	1
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics	1
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools	1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession	1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities	1
The roles of teacher autonomy and personal accountability in explaining Turkish teachers’ job satisfaction	1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers	1
Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland	1