OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies of Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	21
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	21
Coping and scholarship during a pandemic	21
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	19
Humanizing science education, wellness and a more just world	17
Holding space for uncertainty and vulnerability: reclaiming humanity in teacher education through contemplative \| equity pedagogy	17
Re/turning to soil: becoming one-bodied with the Earth	17
Dramaturgical analysis of Boyle and Hobbes in developing NOS-based chemistry teaching materials for pre-service teachers	15
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	13
The Anthropocene as we know it: posthumanism, science education and scientific literacy as a path to sustainability	13
Borderlands in science	12
A manifesto to young activist scientists and science educators: toward pluriversal sciences and science educations within bioregions and communities	12
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	11
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	11
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	11
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	10
STEM learning as care work	9
Intergenerational transdisciplinary knowing toward stewarding the land of refuge: learning through the pandemic	9
Unveiling the production of non-participation in the primary school science classroom	9
(Re)defining expert in science instruction: a community-based science approach to teaching	9
Overcoming the discourse of science mistrust: how science education can be used to develop competent consumers and communicators of science information	8
Exploring nature of criticality in high school science teaching: sociopolitical consciousness in multicultural science education	8
A cultural historical comparison of in-school and out-of-school STEM activity systems for African-American girls	8
Storied identities and teacher candidates’ developing practices	8
Looking back at “our science” and “our history”: an exploration of Korean preservice science teachers’ encounters with East Asian history of science	8

The role of myths in students discussing ‘pest’–agriculture relations	7
Stepping into STS literature: Some implications for promoting socioecological justice through science education	7
A critical perspective on pandemics and epidemics: building a bridge between public health and science education	7
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	7
Bring along the other: dialogue, togetherness, and possibilities in Science Education	7
Formal rules and rules as reasoning-in-action: playing games with reality in science education	6
Correction to: Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	6
Soul searching in science teaching: an exploration of critical teaching events through the lens of intersectionality	6
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	6
Narratives of learning in a permacultural cooperative: some inspiring ideas for science education in the light of Freire's pedagogy	5
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	5
What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	5
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	5
Dwelling in borderlands: a conversation between two science teachers-researchers	5
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	5
Decolonial scientific education to combat ‘science for domination’	5
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	5
Margin envy: looking at science education in Arizona from a STEM-ed state	5
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	5
The journey of a science teacher: preparing female students in the training future scientists after-school program	5
Freirean inspirations in solidary internationalism between East Timor and Brazil in science education	5
The argumentative shortcomings of educators’ efforts to talk about religion and science: mixed enthymemes in Understanding Science	5
Beyond neat classifications: A case for the in-betweens	4
“For whom? By whom?”: critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science	4
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	4
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	4
How a marginalized student’s attempts to position himself as an accepted member are constrained or afforded in small-group argumentation	4
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	4
Intentional scaffolding of advising, mentoring, and wise intervention programming in the 1st year experience promotes student resilience in the face of a global pandemic: a case study of STEM student	4
Who aspires to be a scientist/who is allowed in science? Science identity as a lens to exploring the political dimension of the nature of science	4
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	4
Seeing a science of her own: intersectionality in the age of denial	4
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	4
Toward a framework of culturally relevant science and mathematics pedagogy: a pedagogical and analytical tool for teacher education	4
Learning about the nature of science through the critical and reflective reading of news on the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Unveiling the scientists and engineers in the Southern Appalachian community	3
Stories of water: preschool children’s engagement with water purification	3
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	3
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	3
Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience	3
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	3
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	3
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	3
What’s in a name? The use of induced perspective taking to inform arguments about the appropriateness of the term “Chinavirus” when talking about COVID-19	3
Responding to negative emotion in a pre-service mathematics classroom	3
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	3
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	3
Global challenges need attention now: educating humanity for wellness and sustainability	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	3

Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	3
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	3
The intersectional experience of Faith teaching science within an Afro-centric school model	3
The hegemony of English in science education in India: a case study exploring impact of teacher orientation in translating policy in practice	3
Gardener-becoming-tree, tree-becoming-gardener: growing-together as a metaphor for thinking about learning and development	3
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	2
Exclosure (or what we risk losing)	2
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	2
Revisiting the Philippine archaic measurement system: cultural integration with science literacy and education	2
Turkish middle school students’ evaluation of fallacious claims about vaccination	2
Leveraging strengths of a research-practice partnership to support equitable science teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	2
Meeting the needs of the individual student in the post-pandemic era: an analysis of the next generation science standards	2
Towards authentic purposes for student science writing using culturally relevant pedagogy	2
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	2
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	2
A story of bodying in science education	2
Boundaries and borderlands viewed from the perspective of a fluid ontology	2
When a common future for all enters the science classroom	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2
Preschool teachers’ science teaching practices: earth and space	2
Exploring the intersection of disasters and science education with preservice science teachers through a disaster case study	2
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	2
My best science teacher: the views of Black students and implications for science education reform	2
Reconnecting self, others and nature	2
Schools as Borderlands: How Anzaldúa’s concept of Borderlands apply to schools that serve Black communities	2
Cogenerating insights into the dialectics of contemplative practices in educational and lifeworld settings	2
Theorizing racism to advance science education research for people of African descent	2
Framing and determining science content and standards for cultural representation of African American heritage in science content knowledge	2
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	2
Comparative analysis of chemistry teaching in city center and suburban public schools in Brazil: how school reputation and social profile influence chemistry teaching and high school students’ perform	2
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	2
"I’ve felt out of place sometimes in STEM but my cultural roots say otherwise:” Latina college students’ identity conundrums and opportunities in a science research internship	2
Informal science learning experiences for gender equity, inclusion and belonging in STEM through a feminist intersectional lens	1
From ego to eco: re-orienting for processual ontology in the “Dao-Field”	1
Potential implications of social covenants on practitioners	1
Should we bother to practice ecological responsibility?	1
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	1
Counter-hegemonic science education: understanding the effects of coloniality and proposing a decolonial pedagogy	1
Facing neoliberalism through dialogic spaces as sites of hope in science education: experiences of two self-organised communities	1
Socialized medicine has always been political: COVID-19, science and biopower in India	1
The ethical implications of Goethe’s approach to nature and Its potential role in teacher education	1
Cultural semiotic resources in young children’s science drawings	1
From hermit crabs to humus: Heesoon Bai’s contributions to cultural studies in science education	1
The identity turn in science education research: a critical review of methodologies in a consolidating field	1
Reconceptualization of borderlands, borders, and spaces within a multi-theoretical perspective	1
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	1
The science-ethics nexus: a speculative posthumanist examination of secondary school science	1
Freire’s hope in radically changing times: a dialogue for curriculum integration from science education to face the climate crisis	1
On the encounter of scientific literature with Afro-Brazilian ancestral pharmacopeias	1
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	1
The production of contraceptive cyborgs in Swedish upper secondary sexuality education	1
Ecology and colour in 1m2: a contemplative, place-based study	1
Enhancing place-based learning progression through epistemic agency: a response to toward a hypothetical place-based learning progression for haze pollution in the northern region of Thailand	1
Equity in teaching science during times of crisis: a study with Portuguese science teachers	1
Wellbeing in initial teacher education: using poetic representation to examine pre-service teachers’ understanding of their self-care needs	1
A case study of whiteness at work in an elementary classroom	1
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	1
The problematic use of urban, suburban, and rural in science education	1
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	1
Neoliberalism and science education south of the equator: perspectives from Brazil	1
How microblogging affords conditions for realising student voices about the body and sexuality in a science education lesson	1
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	1
Crossing borders between science and religion: Muslim Indonesian biology teachers’ perceptions of teaching the theory of evolution	1
Decolonizing school physics through an indigenous artifact mediated pedagogy	1
Depoliticization of educational reforms: the STEM story	1
Exploring informal science education responses to COVID-19 global pandemic: learning from the case of the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Korea	1
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	1
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	1
Indigenous artefacts and physics curriculum: teaching science as a cultural way of knowing	1
Manifesting Black Joy in science learning	1
Becoming-with the bog born: emotional collectives in ecological fieldwork	1
The quest for sustainable futures: designing transformative learning spaces with multilingual Black, Brown, and Latinx young people through critical response-ability	1