OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Gender and Education 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution	57
Confidence culture in neoliberal academia: the case of #Womeninacademia on Twitter	18
Manifestations of neoliberal feminism in U.S. teacher lactation behaviours	18
She is so (post)human : doctoral students’ perceptions of response-ability of their becoming-supervisors through caring/careful practices	17
Assessment regimes, data, gender haunting, and health education	16
The girl (w)hole: a genealogy of elite boys’ school alumni’s encounters with feminine gender	15
Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi	13
Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans	13
Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement	12
Care as concubine: stretching the boundaries of care, politics and power in early childhood education and care	12
Institutional transphobia: barriers to transgender research in early years education	12
Education as an arena for anti-feminism: devaluation of femininity in primary education	12
Policing Black femininity: the hypercriminalization of Black girls in an urban school	11
Research prACTivisms – a methodology for a-more-than-educational-academic knowledge production	11
Black college women’s lived memories of racialization in predominantly white educational spaces: I’m Black, I´m a migrant, I’m a woman, so what?	10
Boundary-less and care-full: women academics' perception and negotiation of work-life domains during the COVID-19 work from home era at an Australian regional university	10
Intersectional cognitive schemas of diversity and inclusion in higher education	10
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan	10
‘They trusted me, even if I’m a tom like this’: exploring sexual-professional identity communication of LGBTQ+ primary schoolteachers	10
Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators	9
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning	9
Belonging, caring, and community building across the borders: transnational feminist citizenship pedagogies of a migrant teacher	9
Toward trans-assemblage thinking: becoming a transnational scholar through posthuman autoethnography	9
Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy	9
The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK	8

Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality education classroom: what might queer joy praxis offer?	8
Women academics’ motivation for higher education and empowerment: a qualitative case study in Pakistan	8
Medical fetishism in education: gendering the ‘clinical’ metaphor	7
Neo-fascist anti-gender education	7
Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research	7
Capturing love in mothers’ food care: towards a new typology of maternal love	6
Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities	6
Caring as a girl: a feminist new materialism approach to the learning of care within the family in Finland	6
‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2	6
The minor gestures of diversity work: experiences of women scientists in Danish STEM academia	6
‘Elementary teachers aren’t good at maths’: gendered discourses and performative acts in U.S. mathematics teacher education	5
Gender transformative education as explained by youth feminist activists	5
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence	5
‘ This thing that we do’ : in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis	5
Finnish teachers as (de)constructors of the binary-gendered ideals of the teaching profession	5
Chopping carrots and becoming ‘real’ men: Uzbek boys, household work and the reproduction of masculinities in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	5
Care as a response to sexual and gender-related violence in Catalan universities: policy and institutional challenges	5
‘It’s High School. Everybody gone judge yuh’: school as a social world where Afro-Caribbean girlhood experiences are created	5
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism: working beyond binaries in environmental education	5
Gender representation in journalism education: a systematic literature review	5
Hypervisibility and erasure: parents’ accounts of transgender children in early childhood education and care and primary schools	4
What do we mean by a whole-school approach to gender-related violence prevention? A critical exploration of existing models	4
Facilitators and barriers to trans women’s educational trajectories in the Chilean school system: a narrative biographical study	4
If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through affirmative ethics	4
Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: ‘The program is not about turning boys into girls’	4
Towards a feminist praxis and pedagogy in higher education: knowledge-building and social action in Pakistan	4
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey	4
Programmes for boys and men: possibilities for gender transformation	4
Intersectionality, neoliberal meritocracy and the lived experiences of African first-generation women students in STEM in South African universities	4
Drawing teachers: examining teacher gender in drawings by pre-service educators	4
‘Seeking a break from home’: investigating women’s college experiences in rural Mewat, India	4
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education	3
Inherited futures: education as a gift among Gurkha women in post-1990 Nepal	3
‘I can build Beyblades, but I won’t do it!’. The importance of feminist perspectives within STEM in ECTE	3
Laughing off modernity into a Daoist movement in a college classroom in China: a decolonial and feminist materialist unpacking	3
Indigenous cosmologies and black onto-epistemologies in gender and education	3
Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools	3
Looking out, looking in: transformative feminist pedagogies in the Caribbean	3
Norwegian polyamorous families and their experiences of kindergarten: a narrative inquiry	3
Interrogating the promise of ‘inclusivity’ for LGBTQ+ lives in primary schools	3
An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism	3
‘Like putting a puzzle piece in the wrong spot’: Transgender and non-binary experiences of physical education	3
‘What is gender to you?’: An Africana Womanist take on perceptions of gender reality on women’s agency among a rural Malawian Community	3
Navigating identity performance, activism and visibility in a hostile context: the life story of a non-binary Kenyan student	3
Culture, complaint and confidentiality: an autoethnographic exploration of sexual harassment	3
‘No, she can’t be the hulk!’: critically exploring opposition to Swedish preschools’ gender equality work and preschool teachers’ responses to it	3
From ‘villains’ to ‘idols’: exploring teenage boys’ conflicting attachments to manospheric masculinities	3
Collaboratively reimagining higher education: enacting posthuman feminist practices	3
The Andrew Tate effect: a hidden curriculum of manosphere ideology in secondary schools	3
Admining beyond certainty: generating new educational imaginaries through more-than-faculty roles	3

Exploring bias in artificial intelligence: stereotypes and gendered narratives in digital imagery of early childhood educators	3
The negotiations of Pakistani mothers’ agency with structure: towards a research practice of hearing ‘silences’as a strategy	3
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education	2
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia	2
Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice	2
Hair-ing and haring: post (auto) theoretical more-than-human entanglement with hair/her/stories of Muslim schoolgirls	2
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making	2
Negotiating co-existing subjectivities: the new maternal self in the academy	2
Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women	2
Exercising the imagination: ecofeminist science fictions as object-oriented thought experiments in education	2
‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers	2
Editorial: Feminism(s) and the ‘posts’: towards new educational imaginaries and hope-full renewals	2
A charge to keep I have: Black women teachers’ spirituality and the implications for educational leadership	2
Love is (not) love? exploring Chinese university teachers’ agency in translating rainbow works	2
Going bahar (outside) for higher education: gendered symbolic boundaries of higher education access and choice in Haryana, India	2
Response-able study: sketching ecologies for collective, affective and speculative practices in higher education	2
‘Probably would have changed my whole world’: using imagination as method to drive queer justice in primary schools	2
The impact of gender-sensitive career counselling on the self-perception of Brazilian women in STEM	2
‘I don’t feel like I belong’: first-in-family girls’ constructions of belonging and space during the transition from secondary school into university	2
LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions	2
From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women	2
The privacy and visibility paradox: trans students’ experiences of toilets and changing rooms in UK secondary schools	2
Arachne, self-care and ‘power-nets’ on women’s self-development programmes	2
Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies	2
‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools	2
The cultural politics of emotion and mothers’ responsibility for school choice	2
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?	2
Examining the gendered timescapes of higher education: reflections through letter writing as feminist praxis	2
Bodies and learning trajectories: a ‘post’ feminist approach to the experience of Spanish students in higher education	1
How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care	1
Queering the glass ceiling: alpha females, cyborgs, and the non-tenure track in science	1
Ecofeminist geragogy as emergent informal learning: insights from Nannagogy	1
‘Manfluencers’, masculinities and the practice of misogyny in educational settings: critical analyses, theoretical advances, and potential solutions for addressing a pernicious problem for gender equa	1
Disbelief, denial, and failure: a critical collaborative autoethnography of feminist pedagogies educating against Tate-fuelled sexism in Australian schools	1
Navigating multiple expectations: Chinese female university teachers’ identity performance on social media	1
Women’s non-linear journeys into and through higher education are considered through an emergent research process that spans qualitative and post-qualitative practice	1
The glass escalator in school counselling: gender and leadership aspirations	1
Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland	1
Beyond educator-targeted bullying: a narrative review exploring women teachers’ experiences of sexual harassment from an intersectional perspective	1
‘You don’t want to say anything wrong:’ teachers fearing uncertainties and trans parents (in)visibility in early childhood education	1
Unequal opportunities in becoming cosmopolitan: Korean students’ gendered and classed acquirement of transnational mobility through studying abroad	1
Beyond the neoliberalized academy: caring and careful practices of women full professors	1
Big and small, girls and boys: intersecting gendered touch practices in early childhood educators’ discourses	1
The gendered construction of teachers’ identities and practices: feminist critical discourse analysis of policy texts in Ireland	1
Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education	1
Black girl play: a praxis for being human	1
Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda	1
Normative violence and the terms of recognizability as ‘woman’ in Chilean Catholic schools	1
Contributions of the preventive socialization of gender based violence to the development of an educational strategy	1
Men’s career choices in early childhood education and care – an embodied intersectionality perspective	1
Dress like a winner: mathematical investigations in a design workshop in an early childhood education teacher education programme	1
Girls cook, boys play soccer: (re)producing or challenging gender norms in youth work through social media	1
Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools	1
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts	1
A complex problem with a one-sided solution? Exploring a Swedish municipality’s work with gender-based grade differences	1
Service, suffering, and silence: a duoethnographic exploration of the evangelical roots of gender hierarchies in American elementary schools	1
‘Work hard, play hard, drink hard’: frontier masculinities and female teachers’ experiences in a regional Australian mining town	1
‘Day-dreaming’ school climate: a slow critical feminist post-humanist c/art/ographic listening to how school feels	1
Hegemonic masculinity and institutional betrayal: an oppressive silencing of the feminist ear in Burkina Faso secondary schools	1
Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice	1
Strandlooping as a relational enquiry to reimagine higher education and gender studies along the Camissa coastline	1
Gender inequality in academia from the perspective of the dialogical self: beyond ‘autonomous men’ and ‘relational women’	1
Unearthing gender violence with/in kindergarten play environments	1