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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
She is so (post)human : doctoral students’ perceptions of response-ability of their becoming-supervisors through caring/careful practices	26
Manifestations of neoliberal feminism in U.S. teacher lactation behaviours	25
The girl (w)hole: a genealogy of elite boys’ school alumni’s encounters with feminine gender	22
Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi	14
Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans	14
Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution	14
Assessment regimes, data, gender haunting, and health education	14
Research prACTivisms – a methodology for a-more-than-educational-academic knowledge production	12
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan	12
Institutional transphobia: barriers to transgender research in early years education	11
Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement	11
Care as concubine: stretching the boundaries of care, politics and power in early childhood education and care	11
Education as an arena for anti-feminism: devaluation of femininity in primary education	11
Policing Black femininity: the hypercriminalization of Black girls in an urban school	11
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
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning	9
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?	9
‘They trusted me, even if I’m a tom like this’: exploring sexual-professional identity communication of LGBTQ+ primary schoolteachers	9
Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators	8
Toward trans-assemblage thinking: becoming a transnational scholar through posthuman autoethnography	8
Belonging, caring, and community building across the borders: transnational feminist citizenship pedagogies of a migrant teacher	8
Women academics’ motivation for higher education and empowerment: a qualitative case study in Pakistan	8
Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy	8
Caring as a girl: a feminist new materialism approach to the learning of care within the family in Finland	7

Race, ethnicity and gendered educational intersections	7
The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK	7
Medical fetishism in education: gendering the ‘clinical’ metaphor	7
Neo-fascist anti-gender education	7
Men-only support spaces in early years education: a step towards a gender diverse or a gender divided workforce?	7
Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research	6
Trans students. Difficulties, needs and educational actions in Spain	6
Capturing love in mothers’ food care: towards a new typology of maternal love	6
‘ This thing that we do’ : in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis	6
‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2	6
Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities	6
Gender representation in journalism education: a systematic literature review	5
Care as a response to sexual and gender-related violence in Catalan universities: policy and institutional challenges	5
Hypervisibility and erasure: parents’ accounts of transgender children in early childhood education and care and primary schools	5
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism: working beyond binaries in environmental education	5
Once you shop, you can’t stop: are big-brand companies producing games for girls, or girls themselves?	5
Programmes for boys and men: possibilities for gender transformation	5
The erasure of sexual harassment in elite private boys’ schools	5
‘Elementary teachers aren’t good at maths’: gendered discourses and performative acts in U.S. mathematics teacher education	5
Chopping carrots and becoming ‘real’ men: Uzbek boys, household work and the reproduction of masculinities in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	5
‘It’s High School. Everybody gone judge yuh’: school as a social world where Afro-Caribbean girlhood experiences are created	5
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence	5
Towards a feminist praxis and pedagogy in higher education: knowledge-building and social action in Pakistan	4
Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: ‘The program is not about turning boys into girls’	4
Drawing teachers: examining teacher gender in drawings by pre-service educators	4
‘Jack was just Jack’: performance ethnography of one trans student’s secondary school experiences	4
Intersectionality, neoliberal meritocracy and the lived experiences of African first-generation women students in STEM in South African universities	4
Gender transformative education as explained by youth feminist activists	4
The negotiations of Pakistani mothers’ agency with structure: towards a research practice of hearing ‘silences’as a strategy	3
‘I can build Beyblades, but I won’t do it!’. The importance of feminist perspectives within STEM in ECTE	3
Culture, complaint and confidentiality: an autoethnographic exploration of sexual harassment	3
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education	3
‘Seeking a break from home’: investigating women’s college experiences in rural Mewat, India	3
Navigating identity performance, activism and visibility in a hostile context: the life story of a non-binary Kenyan student	3
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey	3
Institutional betrayal and sexual harassment in STEM institutions: evidence from science and technology universities of Ethiopia	3
Collaboratively reimagining higher education: enacting posthuman feminist practices	3
Norwegian polyamorous families and their experiences of kindergarten: a narrative inquiry	3
Gender equality as a resource and a dilemma: interpretative repertoires in engineering education in Sweden	2
‘Like putting a puzzle piece in the wrong spot’: Transgender and non-binary experiences of physical education	2
‘What is gender to you?’: An Africana Womanist take on perceptions of gender reality on women’s agency among a rural Malawian Community	2
Response-able study: sketching ecologies for collective, affective and speculative practices in higher education	2
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia	2
‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools	2
An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism	2
Admining beyond certainty: generating new educational imaginaries through more-than-faculty roles	2
Negotiating co-existing subjectivities: the new maternal self in the academy	2
From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women	2
Arachne, self-care and ‘power-nets’ on women’s self-development programmes	2
Hair-ing and haring: post (auto) theoretical more-than-human entanglement with hair/her/stories of Muslim schoolgirls	2

Laughing off modernity into a Daoist movement in a college classroom in China: a decolonial and feminist materialist unpacking	2
Indigenous cosmologies and black onto-epistemologies in gender and education	2
Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools	2
Love is (not) love? exploring Chinese university teachers’ agency in translating rainbow works	2
LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions	2
Exercising the imagination: ecofeminist science fictions as object-oriented thought experiments in education	1
Hegemonic masculinity and institutional betrayal: an oppressive silencing of the feminist ear in Burkina Faso secondary schools	1
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education	1
Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women	1
Ecofeminist geragogy as emergent informal learning: insights from Nannagogy	1
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts	1
The cultural politics of emotion and mothers’ responsibility for school choice	1
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi	1
‘I have bills to pay!’ Sugar dating in British higher education institutions	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
A charge to keep I have: Black women teachers’ spirituality and the implications for educational leadership	1
Normative violence and the terms of recognizability as ‘woman’ in Chilean Catholic schools	1
Editorial: Feminism(s) and the ‘posts’: towards new educational imaginaries and hope-full renewals	1
The glass escalator in school counselling: gender and leadership aspirations	1
Big and small, girls and boys: intersecting gendered touch practices in early childhood educators’ discourses	1
‘I don’t feel like I belong’: first-in-family girls’ constructions of belonging and space during the transition from secondary school into university	1
Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies	1
Navigating multiple expectations: Chinese female university teachers’ identity performance on social media	1
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making	1
‘Day-dreaming’ school climate: a slow critical feminist post-humanist c/art/ographic listening to how school feels	1
Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice	1
Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice	1
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?	1
Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda	1
Going bahar (outside) for higher education: gendered symbolic boundaries of higher education access and choice in Haryana, India	1
The privacy and visibility paradox: trans students’ experiences of toilets and changing rooms in UK secondary schools	1
Examining the gendered timescapes of higher education: reflections through letter writing as feminist praxis	1
Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education	1