OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Teaching in Higher Education is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching facts or teaching thinking? The potential of hooks’ ‘engaged pedagogy’ for teaching politics in a ‘post-truth’ moment	76
Initial teacher education seminars and minority ethnic students: exploring dialogic teaching and engagement	57
The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political	44
Embracing playful criticality as a departure from the thoughtless university	43
Challenge and learning in honours education: a quantitative and qualitative study on students’ and teachers’ perceptions	30
Recontextualising professional knowledge: a view on ‘practical knowledge’	30
Teacher effectiveness in Asian higher education contexts: a systematic review	27
‘I can’t unsee what I’ve seen:’ Doing Social Justice Pedagogy in the research methods classroom	27
Decoding disciplinary expectations: an analysis of lecturers’ benchmarks for success in undergraduate assignments	26
Students as scholars and the scholarship of student learning	25
Teaching for diversity: university educators’ accounts of care work and emotional labour with CALD students	25
Teaching sensitive and controversial issues in higher education: a discussion about teaching strategies by an ethics of care with sexually abused boys and men as the empirical example	24
Exploring sources of engineering students’ academic well-being through Q-methodology research	23
ChatGPT is a game changer: detection and eradication is not the way forward	22
Animating pedagogies of discomfort and affect for anti-racism and decolonizing aims in social work education	22
Student engagement with global issues: the influence of gender, race/ethnicity, and major on topic choice	21
Transmitting awareness from the body into writing: bringing the Feldenkrais method into the university classroom	21
Does the format of an assessment (closed book or open book) affect learning? A systematic review of the literature	20
From affirmative to transformative approaches to academic development	19
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison': the significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education	19
Re-contextualizing locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship: a diary analysis of Chinese EFL teachers’ critical intercultural awareness development	18
Researching student competence development through the lens of cultural historical activity theory	18
A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment	17
Practising in an evaluative culture: an autoethnographic study of pedagogical practice in higher education	17
Fostering student motivation and engagement with feedback through ipsative processes	15

Anonymous assessment: is it still worth it?	15
Tutors’ beliefs about language and roles: practice as language policy in EMI contexts	15
Post-anthropocentric pedagogies: purposes, practices, and insights for higher education	15
Traces of embodied teaching and learning: a review of empirical studies in higher education	15
Stress and predictive psychosocial variables in Ecuadorian university teachers	15
Academics’ perspectives on a student engagement and retention program: dilemmas and deficit discourses	15
Conceptualising multilingualism in higher education in Timor-Leste: the case of petroleum studies	15
Disciplinary knowledge practices and powerful knowledge: a study on knowledge and curriculum structures in regions	14
Film in university teaching: optimising multimodal pedagogies through film literacy	14
Life-on-campus or my-time-and-screen : identity and agency in online postgraduate courses	14
Multiple aspects of simulation facilitators’ role in higher education: protecting and challenging the learners	14
Supervisory feedback and doctoral students’ academic literacy development: the case of writing for publication	14
Applying Sadler’s principles in holistic assessment design: a retrospective account	13
Educational transmogrification: from panicgogy to pedagogy of compassion	12
Reframing the ‘illegitimate’ academic: the critical role of professional development for sessional staff	12
Teacher experiences with online experiential legal education	12
‘You don‘t get taught that’ – how ‘safe’ classrooms can hinder learning	11
Academic literacies and the tilts within: the push and pull of student writing	11
Using velo-onto-epistemology to reimagine the candidate-supervisor-relationship	11
Correction	11
Formative feedback in a multicultural classroom: a review	10
Beyond epistemology: the challenge of reconceptualising knowledge in higher education	10
‘It’s a lot of shame’: understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation	10
Precarious academic citizens: Early Career Teachers' experiences and implications for the academy	10
Revisiting the notion of critical thinking in higher education: theorizing the thinking-feeling entanglement using affect theory	10
Seeing behind the curtain: Reverse Mentoring within the Higher Education landscape	10
Composing and de-composing identities of an emeritus professor: academic, post-academic or pre-compost?	10
Authentic assessment in higher education: the spectre of lost futures	10
Constructing assessment practices for knowledge building in science	10
Scholarship and academic capitals: the boundaried nature of education-focused career tracks	9
Re-contextualising real-life learning to a university setting	9
Understanding educational development in terms of the collective creation of socially-just curricula	9
Exploring online readiness in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic	9
Hidden impacts of precarity on teaching: effects on student support and feedback on academic writing	9
Teaching justice-based environmental sustainability in higher education: generative dialogues	9
An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability	9
Following rhythms and changing pace–Students’ strategies in relation to time in higher education	9
The challenge for university teaching and research practice in Zimbabwe: an empirical study	9
Pedagogies of care or reproduction of inequality? The banzhuren ’ s role in Chinese higher education	9
Deconstructing the constraints of justice-based environmental sustainability in higher education	9
Interuniversity collaborations: a model for sustainable specialised public health education programmes	8
Representation within the sport management curricula: exploring educators’ decision making-process	8
Doctoral pathways to imagined futures in higher education: two Hong Kong cases	8
Are they ready? An investigation of university students’ difficulties in peer assessment from dual perspectives	8
Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals	8
Transforming pre-service EFL teacher education through critical cosmopolitan literacies: voices from Mainland China	8
The transformation of doctoral education: responding to the needs and expectations of society and candidates	8
Reshaping teaching in higher education through a mandala of creative pedagogies	8
Argumentation and scientific consensus-building: using the nonfiction narrative to generate contextual understanding	8
Toward a conflict-sensitive approach to higher education pedagogy: lessons from Afghanistan and Somaliland	8

ACalledecolonial hack: Afro-Latin theorizing of Philadelphia's spaces of learning and resistance	8
Augustine's De Catechizandis rudibus and the scholarship of teaching and learning	8
Observational feedback literacy: designing post observation feedback for learning	8
‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research	8
Consistency in study programme planning and the complexity of curriculum logics	8
Tales on Soles: driving design via Design Activism	8
Equipping graduates with future-ready capabilities: an application of learning theories to higher education	8
Exploring cultural propaganda through an Asian lens: a pedagogical perspective of teaching critique	7
Why a dispositional view of ecological literacy is needed	7
Curriculum change as transformational learning	7
Epistemic outcomes of English medium instruction in a South Korean higher education institution	7
The development of critical thinking: what university students have to say	7
Dancing with explicit criteria or marginalising them: the complexity of grading student work and the reconstruction of the meaning of criterion-referenced assessment	7
Equity and online work integrated learning: a qualitative research synthesis	7
Dialogue and subject positioning in pedagogical practice: the academic literacies classroom in a Ghanaian University	7
Reflexivity and agency in university-based teacher educators: a critical realist analysis	7
Decolonising while white: confronting race in a South African classroom	7