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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The girl (w)hole: a genealogy of elite boys’ school alumni’s encounters with feminine gender	38
She is so (post)human : doctoral students’ perceptions of response-ability of their becoming-supervisors through caring/careful practices	17
Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution	15
Manifestations of neoliberal feminism in U.S. teacher lactation behaviours	14
Assessment regimes, data, gender haunting, and health education	14
Care as concubine: stretching the boundaries of care, politics and power in early childhood education and care	12
Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi	12
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan	12
Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans	12
Education as an arena for anti-feminism: devaluation of femininity in primary education	11
Research prACTivisms – a methodology for a-more-than-educational-academic knowledge production	11
Institutional transphobia: barriers to transgender research in early years education	10
Policing Black femininity: the hypercriminalization of Black girls in an urban school	9
Intersectional cognitive schemas of diversity and inclusion in higher education	9
Sound as technologies of the self for feminist pedagogy	9
‘They trusted me, even if I’m a tom like this’: exploring sexual-professional identity communication of LGBTQ+ primary schoolteachers	9
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning	9
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	9
Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement	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
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	8
Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators	8
Race, ethnicity and gendered educational intersections	8
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
Women academics’ motivation for higher education and empowerment: a qualitative case study in Pakistan	7
Caring as a girl: a feminist new materialism approach to the learning of care within the family in Finland	6
Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research	6
The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK	6
Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality education classroom: what might queer joy praxis offer?	6
Capturing love in mothers’ food care: towards a new typology of maternal love	6
‘It’s High School. Everybody gone judge yuh’: school as a social world where Afro-Caribbean girlhood experiences are created	5
‘ This thing that we do’ : in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis	5
Gender representation in journalism education: a systematic literature review	5
Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities	5
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism: working beyond binaries in environmental education	5
‘Elementary teachers aren’t good at maths’: gendered discourses and performative acts in U.S. mathematics teacher education	5
Care as a response to sexual and gender-related violence in Catalan universities: policy and institutional challenges	5
Chopping carrots and becoming ‘real’ men: Uzbek boys, household work and the reproduction of masculinities in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	5
‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2	5
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence	5
Hypervisibility and erasure: parents’ accounts of transgender children in early childhood education and care and primary schools	5
Programmes for boys and men: possibilities for gender transformation	4
‘Jack was just Jack’: performance ethnography of one trans student’s secondary school experiences	4
Gender transformative education as explained by youth feminist activists	4
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
Finnish teachers as (de)constructors of the binary-gendered ideals of the teaching profession	4
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey	3
Drawing teachers: examining teacher gender in drawings by pre-service educators	3
Looking out, looking in: transformative feminist pedagogies in the Caribbean	3
Norwegian polyamorous families and their experiences of kindergarten: a narrative inquiry	3
Intersectionality, neoliberal meritocracy and the lived experiences of African first-generation women students in STEM in South African universities	3
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education	3
‘I can build Beyblades, but I won’t do it!’. The importance of feminist perspectives within STEM in ECTE	3
An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism	3
The negotiations of Pakistani mothers’ agency with structure: towards a research practice of hearing ‘silences’as a strategy	3
What do we mean by a whole-school approach to gender-related violence prevention? A critical exploration of existing models	3
‘Seeking a break from home’: investigating women’s college experiences in rural Mewat, India	3
LGBTIQA+ students’ transformative ‘religious freedom’ definitions	2
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?	2
Hair-ing and haring: post (auto) theoretical more-than-human entanglement with hair/her/stories of Muslim schoolgirls	2
Indigenous cosmologies and black onto-epistemologies in gender and education	2
Laughing off modernity into a Daoist movement in a college classroom in China: a decolonial and feminist materialist unpacking	2
Culture, complaint and confidentiality: an autoethnographic exploration of sexual harassment	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
Collaboratively reimagining higher education: enacting posthuman feminist practices	2
Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice	2
Love is (not) love? exploring Chinese university teachers’ agency in translating rainbow works	2
Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools	2
Exploring bias in artificial intelligence: stereotypes and gendered narratives in digital imagery of early childhood educators	2
Navigating identity performance, activism and visibility in a hostile context: the life story of a non-binary Kenyan student	2

Response-able study: sketching ecologies for collective, affective and speculative practices in higher education	2
How am I supposed to feel? Female students’ emotional reasoning about academic becoming in transnational higher education	2
Negotiating co-existing subjectivities: the new maternal self in the academy	2
A charge to keep I have: Black women teachers’ spirituality and the implications for educational leadership	2
Exercising the imagination: ecofeminist science fictions as object-oriented thought experiments in education	2
‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools	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
Admining beyond certainty: generating new educational imaginaries through more-than-faculty roles	2
Interrogating the promise of ‘inclusivity’ for LGBTQ+ lives in primary schools	2
‘Like putting a puzzle piece in the wrong spot’: Transgender and non-binary experiences of physical education	2
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia	2
Editorial: Feminism(s) and the ‘posts’: towards new educational imaginaries and hope-full renewals	2
Going bahar (outside) for higher education: gendered symbolic boundaries of higher education access and choice in Haryana, India	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
The privacy and visibility paradox: trans students’ experiences of toilets and changing rooms in UK secondary schools	1
Navigating multiple expectations: Chinese female university teachers’ identity performance on social media	1
How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care	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
Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts	1
Big and small, girls and boys: intersecting gendered touch practices in early childhood educators’ discourses	1
Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice	1
Normative violence and the terms of recognizability as ‘woman’ in Chilean Catholic schools	1
‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers	1
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making	1
Examining the gendered timescapes of higher education: reflections through letter writing as feminist praxis	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
The gendered construction of teachers’ identities and practices: feminist critical discourse analysis of policy texts in Ireland	1
‘Work hard, play hard, drink hard’: frontier masculinities and female teachers’ experiences in a regional Australian mining town	1
Strandlooping as a relational enquiry to reimagine higher education and gender studies along the Camissa coastline	1
The glass escalator in school counselling: gender and leadership aspirations	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
Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda	1
The cultural politics of emotion and mothers’ responsibility for school choice	1
Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies	1
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi	1
Hegemonic masculinity and institutional betrayal: an oppressive silencing of the feminist ear in Burkina Faso secondary schools	1
Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education	1
What else can a crush become: working with arts-methods to address sexual harassment in pre-teen romantic relationship cultures	1
Queering the glass ceiling: alpha females, cyborgs, and the non-tenure track in science	1
Beyond the neoliberalized academy: caring and careful practices of women full professors	1
Ecofeminist geragogy as emergent informal learning: insights from Nannagogy	1
‘Day-dreaming’ school climate: a slow critical feminist post-humanist c/art/ographic listening to how school feels	1
Education, employment, and empowerment among Saudi women	1