OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Irish Educational Studies is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy	130
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system	35
Editorial	31
Outdoor education, interaction and reflection: a study of Irish outdoor ECEC	29
Recasting embodied and relational teaching in the arts: teacher educators reflect on the potential of digital learning	28
Gen Ed	25
The potential of arts partnerships to support teachers: learning from the field	24
Illusions of online readiness: the counter-intuitive impact of rapid immersion in digital learning due to COVID-19	19
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities	19
Teacher preparation in Scotland	17
Reflecting on 100 years of educational policy in Ireland: was equality ever a priority?	16
An investigation into the profile of entrants to concurrent (post-primary) initial teacher education in Ireland, 2009–2020	14
Care and Capitalism Care and Capitalism , by K. Lynch, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2022, 248 pp., €21.50 (paperback), ISBN 9781509543847	14
Covid 19, school closures and the uptake of a digital assessment for learning pilot project during Ireland’s national lockdown	13
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	13
Digital education futures: design for doing education differently	13
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?	12
Bridging the gaps in information systems: a threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge perspective	12
Exploring the relationships between psychological wellbeing, religiosity and religious coping among post-primary school students in Ireland	11
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme	11
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design	11
School performance and undetected and untreated visual problems in schoolchildren in Ireland; a population-based cross-sectional study	11
Magnifying inequality? Home learning environments and social reproduction during school closures in Ireland	11
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university	11
Invisible and uncertain: postdoctoral researcher careers in Irish universities	10

Covid-19 as a catalyst for sustainable change: the rise of democratic pedagogical partnership in initial teacher education in Ireland	10
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture	10
Navigating the role of teacher educator in the asynchronous learning environment: emerging questions and innovative responses	9
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum	9
Deconstructing the policy narratives at the root of arts-in-education practice in Ireland: a potential othering of teachers at play?	8
Connection before content: using multiple perspectives to examine student engagement during Covid-19 school closures in Ireland	8
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis	8
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession	8
The impact of mandated collaboration in the workplace: a case study of Ethiopian primary school teachers	7
Workaholism in higher education. An exploration of the cognitive, emotional, motivational, and behavioural elements	7
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school	7
Mixed methods or mixed up: a critical exposition on interpretive research undertaken within mixed methods’ studies	7
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods	7
Wellbeing and Schooling: Cross Cultural and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives	7
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study	6
Evolution of Irish curriculum culture: understandings, policy, reform and change	6
Responding to complexity in disadvantaged school contexts: the role of school networks in building social capital	6
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring	6
Impact of a national professional development programme for out-of-field teachers of mathematics in Ireland	6
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education	6
An investigation of emergency virtual observation (EVO) in initial teacher education, in Australia and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs	6
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	6
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors	6
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid	6
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm	6
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	6
‘The COVID-19 crisis is not the core problem’: experiences, challenges, and concerns of Irish academia during the pandemic	6
Designing media and information literacy curricula in English primary schools: children’s perceptions of the internet and ability to navigate online information	5
Living and learning with Covid-19: re-imagining the digital strategy for schools in Ireland	5
Parental school choice in post-secular Ireland: insights from Irish primary schools	5
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning	5
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school	5
Promoting academic resilience in DEIS schools	5
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach	5
The characteristic elements of TeachMeet	5
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh	5
‘Schooling at Home’ in Ireland during COVID-19’: Parents’ and Students’ Perspectives on Overall Impact, Continuity of Interest, and Impact on Learning	5
Covid-19: teaching primary geography in an authentic context related to the lived experiences of learners	5
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms	4
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics	4
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	4
Using GIS analysis to examine home-school travel in a divided education system: the case of Northern Ireland	4
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!	4
Subjective wellbeing of Cork primary school children	4
Teacher-artist partnership as teacher professional development	4
Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: minimal English (and beyond)	4
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning	4
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?	4
Tensions and dilemmas: a narrative inquiry account of a teacher-researcher	4

How Covid-19 has reinforced the importance of a numerate society	3
Making the invisible visible: managing tensions around including Traveller culture and history in the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels	3
When it matters most: a trauma-informed, outdoor learning programme to support children’s wellbeing during COVID-19 and beyond	3
Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–1968	3
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools	3
Instrumental music education in Ireland: how subsidiarity and choice can perpetuate structural inequalities	3
Exploring a pedagogical model to support teaching new literacy skills in English education – an Irish study	3
‘We all have to do our bit': literacy practice, perceptions and policy in Irish primary and post-primary schools	3
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on learning, teaching and facilitation of practical activities in science upon reopening of Irish schools	3
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career	3
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education	3
Education for collective intelligence	3
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	3
Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education	3
Taming the imposter monster	3
Initial teacher educators’ integrating iPads into their physical education teaching	3