OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Art & Design Education is 2. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	38
Issue Information	30
Playing with Strangeness: Principles of Designing Action Scenarios to Promote Creativity in Children	25
The Imaginary Museum: Researching Imagination Through Practices of the Imaginary	17
Integrating Arts Into Nature Education for Sustainable Rural Development	15
Visualising COVID‐19: Implications for Design Education	15
Space for Imagination? Exploring the Challenges of Implementing Art‐Based, Metacognitive Approaches for Supporting Imagination as a Route to Agency	13
Methodological Insights and Trends: Participatory Positioning of Children and Youth in Visual Art Education Research	12
T+ Designers: A Case for Transdisciplinarity in Design Higher Education by Way of a South African Case Study	12
Trying to Undo the Colonialities of Arts Education: The Construction of a Workbook as Curriculum‐(Un)Making	10
Crip Time Travels Through the Membrane and Vortex: An Autoethnographic Inquiry of Neurodivergent Student Temporality in Higher Art Education	10
Akokisa River Pedagogies	10
Integrating Environmental Education: An Action Research on Practice Teaching in Art and Design Programmes	9
Thinking About Drawing As Cause and Consequence: Practical Approaches in Time	9
Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness	9
Moments of Doubts	8
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Artist‐Teacher Practices as Sites of Peace ‘Making’	7
The Art of Becoming a Visual Arts Teacher – the Wildebeest, the Feeling‐Beast and the Cat	7
‘Who Thinks this Teaspoon Is Art?’ A Discourse Analysis of Elementary School Students' Negotiation of Meaning During Art Museum Visits	7
Out of Time, Pedagogy, Temporality and the Affective Encounter. Film and Moving Image Making Practice in Art Education	7
Exploring the Benefits of Culturally Responsive Art Learning Experience for Rural Chinese Students	6
A Review of the Evolution of Research on the Size of Children's Drawings in Relation to Their Expressed Emotion About the Depicted Topic: 1988–2023	6
An Analysis of a Proposed Definition for Artist‐Teachers in Adult Community Learning	6
Issue Information	6

Design Education of Non‐design Students and How They Perceive their Design Competency	6
Fostering Creative Thinking and Ingenuity in Design Education: Curriculum Practices in the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology MFA Illustration P	6
Analysing the Limitations of Bauhausian Pedagogies in Contemporary Design Education From a Neuroscience Perspective	5
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Teacher's Views of Art Education in Primary Schools in Scotland	5
Effect of Artistic Activities on Adolescents' Creative Thinking: The Mediating Role of Creative Engagement	5
Metaverse‐Based Learning Through Children's School Space Design	5
Quick, Quick, Slow: Making Time for Sustainable Photography Practices in Contemporary Higher Education	5
Exploring Visiting Artists' Dual Roles and Constraints in Art Educational Programmes	4
From Theatre to XR: Shaping Immersive Storytelling Design Education through Artistic and Analogue Insights	4
Creativity Enactment in Ghanaian Secondary Visual Arts Programmes: An Autoethnographic Perspective	4
Issue Information	4
"The Council," Artist Adelita Husni‐Bey and Young Adults Envision the Future Museum	4
Exploring the Effect of Cultural Inspiration Distance and Timing on Designer’ Creativity in Targeted Cultural Creative Design Pattern	4
The Quiet Learner of the UK Art Classroom	4
Erratum	4
Editorial	4
Issue Information	4
Design Sprints, Designathons and Place‐Based Learning in the Context of Real‐World Health Problems	4
A Green Manifesto for Art, Craft and Design Education	4
The Mokuhanga Technique Today: An Exploration of Traditional Japanese Art in the Artistic and Educational Context	4
Intra‐spective Event‐encounters in Museums: A Pedagogic Practice Among Community Art Educators in Training	4
The Potential of Visual Arts Education: Strengthening Pre‐Service Primary Teachers’ Cultural Identity	3
Revisiting Art's Education	3
Ghanaian Graphic Design Education: Redefining Western Influences and Reclaiming Indigenous Cultures	3
What Drives Design Education in Korean Classrooms? The History of South Korea's National Curriculum and Some Proposals for Design Education in Its Current Iteration	3
‘I'm Just Not Artistic’—An Exploration of Initial Teacher Education Trainees' Confidence in Their Art Ability and their Perceptions of Teaching the Primary Art and Design Curriculum	3
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Designing for Sustainability: Emerging Professional Roles and Capabilities for Designers in the 21st Century	3
Preparing Future Designers for their Role in Co‐Design: Student Insights on Learning Co‐Design	3
A Necessary Shift in Design Education: From Outputs to Outcomes	3
Creative Authenticity: A Framework for Supporting the Student Self in Design Education	3
Design Instructors in Focus: Unveiling the Role of Guest Speakers in Architectural Education	3
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Artivist Childhoods	3
Digital Infographic Creation in Design Education: A Participatory Learning Algorithm Measuring Location‐Based Spatial Impact	3
Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course	3
Ecologies of Collective Imagination	2
Like Drifting Sand Dunes: Noisy Lessons in a Porous Field	2
Brief Remarks on the Strategic Experimentation of Belonging and the Instauring of Cosmicities in the Context of Art Education	2
Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research	2
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Making Art Explicit: Knowledge, Reason and Art History in the Art and Design Curriculum	2
Imaginative Interdependence: Imagination, Speculation and Aesthesis	2
Creativity, Practical Ability, Self‐Identity: Public Art Practice with Primary School Students in China	2
Arts Practice as the Daily Extraordinary: A Philosophy of Inclusivity	2
The Influence of Humanities on Art and Design Learning Performance: An Empirical Study	2
Relaxing Design Students’ Sketch Inhibition: Experiences with Theoretical Grounding and Impermanent Media	2
Make First: Exploring Methods to Deliver Anti‐Racist and Anti‐Ableist Craft Learning	2
Creative Pedagogies: School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination	2

The Unique Qualities of Junior Cycle Visual Art Education in Ireland	2
Feminist Pedagogy and Student Collaboration in Open Educational Practices in the Art History Classroom	2
Never Enough Time	2
Issue Information	2
Belonging: Dialogues for a Culturally Responsive Art & Design Education	2
Becoming Materially Aware with Mushrooms: A Sociomaterial Analysis of Biomaking	2
Notes towards a pedagogy of be‐longing: Rewilding art and design education	2