OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English Teaching-Practice and Critique 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Possibilities and missed opportunities for generative dialogue: professional networking, online platforms and the English classroom	20
“I. Am. a. Star.”: exploring moments of muchness in children’s digital compositional play and embodied science learning	18
Playful literacies and pedagogical priorities: digital games in the English classroom	13
Constrained yet strategic linguistic investment: Iranian English learners navigating identities, ideologies and capital forms amid religious nationalism	12
“Sigo en lo Mismo”: the impact of papeles on the education of undocumented Latinx migrant and seasonal farmworkers	12
“It was literally a trauma narrative”: distances/disavowals and guides/gospels in queer postsecondary readings of LGBTQ+ young adult literature	11
Identity and positionality in composing graphic narratives: reflective lessons on lingering with rhetorical choices	8
Play the game, live the story: pushing narrative boundaries with young adult videogames	8
Towards boundary crossing: primary and secondary school teachers teaching creative writing and its redrafting	7
Rural English teachers’ emotion labor toward communicative language teaching (CLT) as a social imaginary in China	7
Learning to choose and teach “good” books: curricular accountability in elementary language arts teacher education	7
“I can almost recognize its voice”: AI and its impact on ethical teacher-centaur labor	6
“We’re changing the system with this one”: Black students using critical race algorithmic literacies to subvert and survive AI-mediated racism in school	6
Negotiating belonging in an outdoor setting through kinship bonds in a secondary ELA class	6
“She’s all about her words”: one teacher’s efforts to sustain her students’ cultures through discourse	5
Speculative frictions: writing civic futures after AI	5
How is climate activism represented in award-winning children’s picturebooks? A critical content analysis	5
Exploring child-nature-city relations through ecocritical readings of a diverse environmental picturebook	5
“A creative approach” to teaching mathematics: case study integrating literacy and social justice mathematics using justice-centered children’s picturebooks	5
“I want to stay”: academic and social functions of translanguaging in literacy learning	4
Guest editorial: Introduction: Reconstructive discourse analysis as an approach to redressing racism in critical studies of literacy	4
Sonic play: on the B-side of literacy and songwriting	4
Reaching for the moon: class, race, and (im)possibility in Antwan Eady’s Nigel and the Moon	4
Visual justice and multilingual meaning-making: refugee students’ critical engagements with wordless picturebooks	4
“We're loud, why aren't you?” Laura’s social media activism through justice-oriented literacies	4

Constructions of youth and responses to problematic authors: examining ELA teachers’ choices to select or avoid Sherman Alexie	4
“Stealing from the language”: interest convergence and teachers’ advocacy for language-inclusive practices	3
Tinkering toward teacher learning: a case for critical playful literacies in teacher education	3
Exploring the challenges and possibilities of critical literacy pedagogy: K-8 teacher discussions about race in a virtual professional development course	3
Culturally relevant approaches to fostering postsecondary readiness in the dual credit English classroom	3
Celebrate with me: a black adolescent girl’s speculative multimodal design of intersectional college and career futures	3
“I’m really just scared of the White parents”: a teacher navigates perceptions of barriers to discussing racial injustice	3
Exploring (r)evolutionary college-going literacies with immigrant youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) seminar	2
Illustrating linguistic dexterity in “English mostly” spaces: how translanguaging can support academic writing in secondary ELA classrooms	2
Experiencing the cycles of love in teaching: the praxis of an early career Asian American ELA teacher	2
“Live within the messiness”: how a digitally mediated inquiry community supported ELA teachers in cultivating adaptive repertoires	2
Journeying and everydayness as a framework for literacy research and teaching practice	2
For concurrent enrollment, collaboration, not alignment, is the better story	2
Generative AI and composing: an intergenerational conversation among literacy scholars	2
Reading beyond belief: a framework for interpreting family lived religion in realistic fictional picturebooks	2
“When a fox desires to be yuman”: exploring English teacher’s practice of critical literacy instruction: lessons learned from an Indonesian junior high classroom	2
Emotions, empathy and social justice education	2
Solution-based orientation as an element in selecting videos on social issues	2
Cognition, creativity and rhetorical intelligence in the age of generative AI: a framework for teaching writing and critical AI literacy	2
“From the beginning, I think it was a stretch” – teachers’ perceptions and practices in teaching multiliteracies	2
Exploring critical literacy responses through interactive read-alouds on racial justice and historical understanding	2
Striving for truth, justice and racial diversity: a critical race content analysis of DC Graphic Novel for Young Adults	1
Beyond heteronormativity: counternarratives of love, kinship, and belonging in youth literature	1
“Feeling ill-equipped”: a critical discourse analysis of preservice teachers’ attitudes and behaviors of reading and writing	1
Nurturing loving fat: growing beyond the weeds of fat phobia	1
Digital writing with AI platforms: the role of fun with/in generative AI	1
Who do you think you are? Bourdieu as a lens for broadening writer identity in subject English	1
Beyond the linked text set: text set assemblages and the Linked Text Set Map	1
Teacher candidates’ narratives as imagined professional identity work: adopting funds of identity	1
“We had no issues with this book at all”: affordances and challenges in fostering criticality through justice-oriented picture books	1
TikTok as a lens into teacher attrition: perspectives from #teacherquittok	1
Form, criticality, and humanity: topic modeling the field of literary studies for English education	1
Weaving selves: students’ insights into identity, learning and storytelling in digital spaces	1
Pathways to motivation and learning in English language education: a case of two youths engaging in multiliteracies	1
“Where’s my mom?” A critical analysis of system-impacted mother-child relationships in children’s literature	1
Adopting a languaging approach for teaching about the climate crisis in English language arts	1
Can a zoom class be dialogic? An examination of a virtual English methods class	1
“Literacy to me is about power”: reading book-length fiction and non-fiction texts in a disciplinary literacy teacher education course	1
Elegizing English: considering English language arts alongside the rhetoric of a field on its deathbed	1
“We read to resist.”: how critical bilingual educators prepare for justice-oriented interactive read-alouds	1
From practice to critique: ELA teachers grappling with writing instruction in a third space	1
Queer and trans youth (not) knowing: experiences of epistemic (in)justice in the context of an LGBTQ+-inclusive secondary curriculum	1
A multicultural education perspective: engaging students and educators to critically exam fat ideology in teacher education and P-12 classrooms	1
Bilingual teachers and young children co-constructing affect and play in translanguaging read-alouds	0
The complexity of integrating global englishes (GE) in ELT: a case study of an English teacher’s investment and identity construction	0
Combatting toxicity: leadership structures and aesthetics in mobile phone war games	0
Creative freedoms: longitudinality and game-based research with teenagers	0
Dreaming through drawing: tracing the shape of children’s “voice” in (re)storying the climate crisis	0
“This was a really tough year in terms of global crises”: walking and writing as ethical and emergent literacy practices in English language arts	0
Shaming, blaming, and reframing disability: depictions of Tourette syndrome and family dynamics within youth literature	0

Guest editorial: An open letter to fat people, their teachers, and their critics	0
I apologize: body positivity love movements	0
(De/re) territorializing writing/composition: becoming with playful objects through maker literacies	0
Adoption representation in picturebooks: a critical content analysis	0
Publisher’s note	0
Writing with, for, and against the algorithm: TikTokers’ relationships with AI as audience, co-author, and censor	0
When the storm hits: children’s literature, extreme weather, and climate conversations in early childhood	0
Loving the skin, you’re in: a deconstruction of children’s literature that focus on body (size) issues	0
The work of growing young people con Cariño: a reconstructive lens on one white teacher’s anti-racist approach to teaching immigrant-origin Latinx students	0
An ecological perspective into the role of case-based instruction in developing EFL student-teachers’ agency	0
Reading the Tulsa Race Massacre: a study exploring a white reader’s shifts in stance across genres of historical text	0
Reading for justice: bilingual read-alouds as pathways to critical literacy and emotional justice inearly childhood	0
When English-only fell silent: learning to teach literacy through translanguaging	0
Editorial: Press “play”	0
Embracing gentle resistance to the slow violence of traditional English curriculum	0
Composing college identities: Latina girls writing their way to the Universidad	0
Connected threads	0
Building a community of allies and upstanders: UsingThe Assignmentto disrupt hate, bias and antisemitism	0
Transnational parent knowledge in storied lived experiences: a critical narrative review of multicultural picturebooks	0
Fostering college aspirations: engaging English teachers in students’ future pathways	0
English education in a globalized world: uncovering new themes and research gaps for the 21st century	0
Spiritual and religious meaning making in language and literacy studies: global perspectives on teaching, learning, curriculum and policy	0
Reading the waters: picturebooks as justice-oriented science and civic pedagogy	0
The power of climate narratives: teaching climate justice through young adult literature	0
Shifting pedagogy, shifting practice: teachers’ perceptions of project-based learning in English language arts	0
“We know the past: what is the future for indigenising English curriculum?”	0
Reading and (re)writing democracy: Asian American girls claim civic space through literary inquiry	0
Addressing instructional capacity for English learners through professional development	0
Baa, baa, black sheep, where my dawgs at? Implementing an anti-racist pedagogy as a literacy specialist with student athletes	0
“I felt goosebumps”: emotional experiences of pre-service English teachers and the critical use of narratives	0
Teachers as critical picturebook curators for justice-oriented interactive read-alouds	0
How am I doing? Soliciting student feedback in the secondary English classroom	0
Introducing AsianCrit to elementary teachers: exploring Asian American picture books to foster culturally sustaining practices	0
Transactional metaphors for inclusion in children’s and young adult literature	0
Artifactual climate writing: Pathways for preservice teachers’ navigation of climate pedagogy in the ELA classroom	0
Responding to representations of fatphobia in prose and comics	0
“Just a tool”? Troubling language and power in generative AI writing	0
““The last bastion of democracy”: teachers’ perceptions of the democratic potential of English curriculum”	0
Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula	0
Playful pluralities: exploring play and playful literacies across ages, spaces and places	0
“I like the way I am”: invisibility and activism in children’s picture books with fat protagonists	0
New conceptual tools for be(com)ing antiracist (teacher) educators at PWIs	0
Shifting language ideologies and pedagogies to be anti-racist: a reconstructive discourse analysis of one ELA teacher inquiry group	0
Portraits of young refugee women’s identities, experiences, and beliefs in relation to college-going	0
We need bigger mirrors: the importance of fat fiction for young readers	0
Attempts at anti-racist teaching by white English teachers of black students	0
For Da Brothas: a call for fat, black male and masculine folx literature	0
Claiming a space in the W/writerly community to increase English Language Arts teacher agency	0
“What they allow us to learn”: exploring how white English teachers cultivate students’ critical literacies through curriculum and pedagogy	0
Collaborative reading and writing for glocal water justice: online teacher inquiry across the Americas	0
“Weaving tales of resilience”: cyborg composing with AI	0
Guest editorial: Transillumination: raising awareness of representations of families in children’s and youth literature	0
Guest editorial: Playful literacies across ages and contexts: new horizons for pleasure, affect, and living texts	0
Race talk tensions: practicing racial literacy in a fourth-grade classroom	0
Emotions, awareness and practice: integrating Global Englishes into teacher education through study abroad	0
Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence and composing just education futures	0
Guest editorial: Reorienting our shared gaze: nurturing criticality in the classroom through justice-oriented picturebook constellations	0
Cultivating critical racial consciousness in dual language bilingual education through AsianCrit-informed translanguaging lessons	0
Polysyncretic composing in play: youth virtual reality gaming for STEM learning	0
Reading with love: the potential of critical posthuman reading practices in preservice English education	0
Centering the collective in the (co)construction of equitable literacy spaces: an integrative critical literature review	0
Identity-based framework for critical text integration	0
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre	0
“This is my hill to die on”: effects of far-right conservative pushback on US English teachers and their classroom practice	0
Departure from native speakerism in a Korean college English course: alternative paradigms and implications	0
Anti-institutionalism and climate delay: an analysis of a climate change debate on the Lex Fridman podcast	0
AI writing detectors are ineffective, unreliable and harmful	0
Unsettling childhood literacies: contamination as collaboration in transmedia encounters	0
Actually existing vitality rights: resisting neoliberal affects at a video game design camp	0
Guest editorial: The role of English teaching and teachers in supporting youths’ university futures and literacies	0
“Writin’ain’t my thang”: creating high school student writers with ongoing support through an urban school–teacher education partnership	0
Breaking spiritual silences as literacy education scholars: a conversation	0
From the side-eye of a fat black girl: using pop culture to tackle fat phobia in education	0