OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Adult Education Quarterly is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Hayes, K. & Kaba, M.	47
The Ethics of Radical and Transformative Education	16
A School–University Partnership That Facilitates Adult-Specific Training: Perceptions of Life Sciences Teachers	16
A Cultural-Historical Analysis of Marsick and Watkins’ Informal and Incidental Learning Model	15
Education Behind Bars: The Lived Experiences of Alternative Learning System Learners in a Philippine Prison	15
Book Review: Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice by Bierema, L. L., Fedeli, M., & Merriam, S. B. BieremaL. L.FedeliM.MerriamS. B. (2025). Adu	10
Adult Education as a Human Right/Adult Education for Human Rights	7
Facilitating Adult Development Through Whole-Person Learning to Address Divisive Polarities Through Empathic Connection	6
Book Review: Becoming a white antiracist: A practical guide for educators, leaders, and activists by Brookfield, S. D., & Hess, M. E.	5
A Personal Investment Theory Approach to Examining Adult Workers’ Motivations to Pursue Continuing Graduate Education	5
“A Place to Belong”: Understanding Adult Learners’ Sense of Belonging in Higher Education Using Poetic Inquiry	5
Adult Refugees and Asylum Seekers in University Preparation Programs: Competing Identities and Multiple Transitions Manifested in Stigma Consciousness and Student Self-Identification	5
Navigating Learning Challenges: Insights from Adult Learners with Visual Impairment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eswatini	4
Enhancing Digital Literacy for Older Adults Through Communities of Practice: A Case Study of an Older Adult School in China	4
Welcome From the New Editorial Team	3
Evaluating the Concurrent Validity of Self-Rating Scale and Instrument for Self-Directed Learning Among Middle-Aged and Older Adult Learners	3
Book Review: The Changing Landscape of Adult Education: Historical Impacts and Future Directions by Bo Chang ChangBo. The Changing Landscape of Adult Edu	3
Genuine Encountering: Toward a Phenomenological Grounding of Respect-Transformative Moments	3
Pedagogy of the Subject: Producing Community-Based Research Facilitators Within Power/Knowledge Relations	3
Learning About Resilience from Rural Interprofessional Healthcare Teams: Insights from the “First Wave” of COVID-19	3
Book Review: The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Developments by M. S Knowles KnowlesM. S et al. (2025). The	3
A Comparative Study of Values-Based Fields of Adult Learning and Education in Austria, Scotland, and South Tyrol, Italy: Practitioners Resisting Neoliberal Tendencies Based on Their Ideas of Social Ju	2
Sacrificial Lambs and Rallying Cries: The Politics of Adult Education at the University of Manitoba, 1907–1949	2
Learning from the Past: Continuity as a Dimension of Transformation	2
More-Than-Human Potentials: Posthumanism and Transformative Learning	2

Book Review: Advancing the Global Agenda for Human Rights, Vulnerable Populations, and Environmental Sustainability: Adult Education as Strategic Partner	2
Black History in Adult Education in the United States: A Historical Review and Historiographical Critique	2
Book Review: Reimagining Adult Education as World Building: Creating Learning Ecologies for Transformation by Aliki Nicolaides, Ahreum Lim, Neal Herr and	2
Self-Deprecation and Self-Enhancement: Ambivalences of Literacy Acquisition for Migrant Women Learning to Read and Write in the Host Country	2
Book Review: Community as Rebellion by Lorgia García Peña	2
Factors Influencing Self-Directed Learning Among Thai Operational Employees in the Petrochemical Sector	2
Book Review: Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education: Counternarratives for Racial Justice by Ramdeholl, D. & Jones, J.	1
Enhancing Adult Literacy in Morocco: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Program Effectiveness and Skill Development	1
“I Prefer Not to Answer”: Politically Agentive Communicative Silence in Nonprofit and Community-Based Education with Immigrant Students	1
Book Review: Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia by Niemann, Y. F., Gutiérrez y Muhs, G., & Gonzalez, C.	1
More than a Confessional Mo(ve)ment? #MeToo's Pedagogical Tensions	1
Chain Mediation Effect of Learning Satisfaction on Achievement Perception in Adult Online Education	1
Editorial	1
Book Review: Researching learning and teaching with adults: An introduction by St. Clair, R.	1
Determinants of Adult Education and Training Participation in the United States: A Machine Learning Approach	1
From Expansive Learning to Enunciatory Learning: Activist-Educators’ Work for a Deeper Democracy in South Korea	1
Adult Iranian English Language Learners’ Identity Work: An Exploration of Language Practices and Learner Identities	1
Book Review: Creating a Place for Adult Learners in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities by Rose, A., Ross-Gordon, J., & Kasworm, C. RoseA.	0
How Personal and Familial Narratives Affect the Decision Making of Mature-Aged First-in-Family Students Pursuing University	0
Book Review: Plantation politics and campus rebellions: Power, diversity, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education by Williams, B. C., Squire, D	0
Book Review: Generative Knowing: Principles, Methods, and Dispositions of an Emerging Adult Learning Theory by Nicolaides, A.	0
Enrollment at Adult High Schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: An Exploration of Motivation, Age, and Gender Using Boshier's EPS A-Form	0
Book Review: Bridging Knowledge Cultures: Rebalancing Power in the Co-Construction of Knowledge by Lepore, W., L. B. Hall, & R. Tandon (Eds.) Lepore,	0
Book Review: This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project by C. Banta, K. DeVault-Juelfs, D. Harper, K. Ryan, &	0
“When We Design for Adult Learners With Disabilities, Everyone Benefits”: Adaptable-Inclusive-Motivated (AIM) Model for Adult Educators to Include Adult Learners With Disabilities	0
Book Review: The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life by Solomon, M. SolomonM. (2025). The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence	0
Book Review: Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures by Anke Schwittay	0
Investigating the Role of Self-Identity in Adults’ Intention for Lifelong Arts Education: An Empirical Study of Dance Learning in China	0
Food and Housing Insecurity Among Adult Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Book Review: My grandmother’s hands: Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies by Menaken, R.	0
Governance of Publicly Financed Adult Education in England and Spain – A Comparison	0
Attitudes Matter: Examining How Teaching Strategies for Attitudinal Change Help Adults Value Reflection and Calibrate Their Reflective Thinking	0
RETRACTED: A Comparative Study of Adult Education in Tanzanian Newspapers: Analyzing Frequency and Depth	0
Reproducing Color-Evasiveness in Finnish Adult Basic Education	0
Breaking the Shell: Identity Development Experiences in a Village Co-operative as a Community of Practice	0
Book Review: Complaint! by Ahmed, S.	0
Costa Rican Women's Coping Strategies: Adult Learners Staying Alive and in School	0
Modeling Determinants of Lifelong Learning According to the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Proxy-Based Approach Using PIAAC Data	0
Paying Attention: Female ADHD Students Learning in Graduate School	0
The Lifelong Learner's Compass: Cultivating Attitudes With Self-Reflection, Openness, Curiosity and Motivation	0
Book Review: Family and Intergenerational Literacy and Learning: International Perspectives by Esther Prins and Rakhat Zholdoshalieva Family and Intergen	0
Not Alone When I’m Feeling Stressed: Online Adult Learner Connection and Retention	0
Editorial	0
Pre-Dialogic Agonism: Adult Learning, Hegemony, and the Epistemic Crisis of Post-Truth	0
Changing Intention to Participate in Adult Education and Training in Norway: Compositional and Motivational Factors	0
Fostering Self-directed Learning Among Academic Support Staff in Higher Education: Insights into Building Workplace English Competency and Learner Confidence Through the Language Clinic Program	0
Book Review: Multimodal Composing and Multiple Identity Mediations: Adult ESL Writers’ Experiences in New York by Dolina, B. DolinaB. (2023). Multimodal	0
Understanding the Practical Constraints of Teaching in the Correctional Environment: An Exploration of Course Credits, Degree Pathways, and Instructor Compensation	0
Book Review: Indigenous Educational Leadership through Community Based Knowledge and Research Indigenous Educational Leadership through Community Based K	0
Experiences of Language in Migration: Communicating Well-Being in Finland and Germany	0

The Transformation of Teachers’ Subjectivities in Swedish Municipal Adult Education: An Autoethnographic Perspective	0
Exploratory Analysis of Literacy Skills, Civic Engagement, and Political Efficacy of Black Adults in the United States	0
Book Review: Remaking Communities and Adult Learning: Social and Community-Based Learning, New Forms of Knowledge and Action for Change, Research on the Education and Learning o	0
Book Review: Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies: The Scholarship of Engagement by Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey, P., & Hoggan, C. H	0
Book Review: Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia: Dominant Versus Local Voices by S. Black BlackS. (2024). Literacy in the Lives o	0
Navigating Challenging Digital Literacy Practices: The Settlement Experiences of Adults from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds	0
Psychosocial Barriers to Adult Learning and the Role of Prior Learning Experiences: A Comparison Based on Educational Level	0
Against All Odds: Participation of Disadvantaged Adults in Nonformal Education and Training Across Europe	0
We Had a Good Thing Going: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Vocational ESL in the United States	0
Infusing Intersectional Pedagogy into Adult Education and Human Resource Development Graduate Education	0
Editorial	0
Situated Learning for Community Engagement: Chinese and Chinese Americans Transformative Action for Identity Reformation in the Context of the Politicalized COVID-19 Pandemic	0
From Multiculturalism to Transculturalism: Constructing Meanings of Transcultural Learning as a Transformative Process	0
Book Review: Learning for Democracy: A Framework for Adult Civic Learning by Hoggan-Hoggan-Kloubert T. & Hoggan C. Hoggan-Hoggan-KloubertT.HogganC. (	0
Book Review: Listening Without Borders: Creating Spaces for Encountering Difference. Multilingual Matters by M. Kubanyiova and P. Shetty Kubanyiova, M.,	0
Exploring the Association Between Adult Education, Personality Traits, and Civic Participation: An Analysis of National Education Panel Study Data	0
Cross-Cultural Spectators: Examining the Representation and Development of Black Female Protagonists on the Big Screen	0
Book Review: Making sense of the learning turn: Why and in what sense toys, organizations, economies, and cities are “learning.” by Anders Örtenblad Örte	0
Book Review: Conditionally Accepted: Navigating Higher Education from the Margins by Denise, E. J., & Louis, B. M., Jr. Denise, E. J., & Louis, B	0
The Role of Canadian Queer Theater Festivals on Queer Identity and Expression	0
Book Review: Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Faculty on the Margins by Dutt-Ballerstadt, R. & Bhattacharya, K. (Eds.	0
Book Review: Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives by M. Slowey, H. Hinzen, M. Omolewa, & M. Osborne (Eds.) Slowey, M., Hinz	0
Book Review: Transformative Sustainability Education: Reimagining Our Future by Lange, E. A. LangeE. A. (2023). Transformative Sustainability Education:	0
Organizers’ Dilemmas, Direct Action, and Adult Education: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Objects of Memory: Ukrainian Refugee Women's Stories of Loss, Survival, and Hope Hoggan-KloubertT.HogganC.LuthardtN.MatiychukO.VardevanianS.DatskoO.PolishchukO.PetrukN.HeckL. (2026). Teaching the Huma	0
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Vietnam's Vocational Training Project for Rural Laborers	0
Book Review: Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation by E. J. Tisdell, S. B. Merriam, & H. L. Stuckey-Peyrot TisdellE. J.MerriamS.	0
Can Informal Lifelong Learning Promote Subjective Wellbeing Among Older Adults? Roles of Hope and Social Class Identity	0
Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice	0
Using Design Experiment Processes to Adjust Money Habits of Adults with Disabilities	0
In Memoriam Dr. Kevin Roessger	0
Book Review: Career Pathways in Adult Education: Perspectives and Opportunities by Monaghan, C.E., Isaac-Savage P., & Putman, P.G. MonaghanC.E.Isaac-	0
Adult Training as a Quality Factor in Work Trajectory: Positive Effects of Adult Training on Seniority and Ageing at Work	0
Emotions and Adult Learning: A Literature Review of Methodological Approaches	0
Book Review: Transition from Pedagogy to Andragogy: An International Perspective by Cordie, L. A. CordieL. A. (Ed.). (2025). Transition from Pedagogy to	0
Making Sense of Science Through a University-Sponsored STEM Café	0
Unfulfilled Promise: Evaluating the Varying Effect of Adult Education and Training on Functional Cognitive Skills Across Socioeconomic Status	0
Four Dimensions of Self-Directed Learning: A Fundamental Meta-Competence in a Changing World	0
Determinants of Learning in Adulthood—Testing of the Cultural Reproduction Theory	0
Retraction: A Comparative Study of Adult Education in Tanzanian Newspapers: Analyzing Frequency and Depth	0
“I Never Thought I’d Do This. It's So Empowering”: Adults’ Transitions into Learning	0
Book Review: Understanding the Adult Learner: Perspectives and Practices by Belzer A., & Dashew B. (eds.)	0