OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies of Science 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	36
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	25
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	25
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	21
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	19
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	19
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	17
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	16
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	15
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	15
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	15
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	14
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	14
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	14
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	13
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	13
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	12
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	12
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	12
Fun moments or consequential experiences? A model for conceptualising and researching equitable youth outcomes from informal STEM learning	10
Historically underrepresented and marginalized science fiction convention attendees’ life experiences related to science and science fiction	10
The role of myths in students discussing ‘pest’–agriculture relations	9
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	9
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	9
STEM learning as care work	8

The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	8
A critical perspective on pandemics and epidemics: building a bridge between public health and science education	8
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	7
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	7
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	7
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	7
What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	7
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	6
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	6
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
The argumentative shortcomings of educators’ efforts to talk about religion and science: mixed enthymemes in Understanding Science	6
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	5
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	5
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	5
South epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education	5
Blind spots in elementary students’ perceptions regarding the food system: expanding Fonseca’s research on depictions of animal food production in Portuguese textbooks	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	5
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	4
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	4
Science teacher beliefs in conflict-affected zones of Jammu and Kashmir	4
Explanations as cultural tools in science education	4
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	4
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion	3
Putting science education in its place: the science question in social justice education	3
Funds of knowledge in Muslim culture in the southern border provinces of Thailand for culturally responsive physics education	3
Stretching the border: living in complementary and contradictory spaces	3
Ninth-grade students’ interactions and co-construction of arguments during a teaching unit on soil science	3
Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations	3
Critical race theory in science education: moving forward and making critical connections to race through the DAST research	3
Conceptualizing and introducing historically relevant science pedagogy as a pedagogical tool for STEM education	3
What is meant by scientific literacy in the curriculum? A comparative analysis between Bolivia and Chile	3
Wonderings about Klaren: looking inward and outward on preparing teachers of science in a neoliberal society	3
Making “it” matter: developing African-American girls and young women’s mathematics and science identities through informal STEM learning	3
Refocusing science professional learning: social justice at the heart	3
The rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: social covenants as contextual mitigating factors	3
Students' meaning-making in an open inquiry: two paths	3
Furthering the conversation: Wittgenstein, Gasparatou, philosophy of language, and science education	3
Science education and the African Diaspora in the United States	3
Correction to: 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 Th	3
Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile	3
Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching	2
Radical care as a science and engineering education response to climate change	2
Forwarding a ‘science-ethics nexus’ to critique and reorient science education pedagogy toward greater social and ecological justice	2
Embracing a lover’s discourse in academia	2
“I can do data for my people”: experiences of giving back for Native undergraduates in computing	2
Teaching in a natural history museum: what can we learn from Estonian elementary school teachers?	2
Evolutionary stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum	2

New geography for resistance: the engagement of diversity in Doc McStuffins as an out-of-school STEM setting	2
The attitude of Korean and Indonesian scientists toward Merton’s scientific norms	2
The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction	2
On love, becomings, and true generosity for science education: honoring Paulo Freire	2
Culturally responsive elementary science teaching: a meta-analysis of current science teaching studies and implications	2
Game playing and fluctuations in emotional climate	2
Beadmaking as a pedagogical site: transcending the traditional walls between the academy and the community	2
A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum	2
Navigating into the future of science museum education: focus on educators’ adaptation during COVID-19	2
Neoliberalism and science education south of the equator: perspectives from Brazil	2
Teachers’ beliefs about language in science: Customizing science curricula to center emergent multilingual learners’ sensemaking	2
An effective intervention with a blended learning environment for improving cognitive learning and spiritual meaning	2
Intersecting identities and the transformative experiences of a beginning science teacher	2
Ideas, hopes, and fears: what young adults think about genome editing, nature, and society	2
On the encounter of scientific literature with Afro-Brazilian ancestral pharmacopeias	2
Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell	2
This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science	2
Biology teachers’ collaborative experiences: benefits and difficulties in different contexts in relation to perceived value	2
Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America	2
A whale of a time: engaging in a war of values for youth activism in science education	2
Performing legitimate choice narratives in physics: possibilities for under-represented physics students	2
A science teacher’s experiences when fostering intercultural competence among students in multilingual classrooms: a narrative study	2
How to understand and support marginalized students’ participation in a science classroom from the perspective of framing	2