OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies of Science Education is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education	40
Treading carefully: the environment and political participation in science education	29
Sociopolitical solidarity in STEM education: youth-centered relationships that resist learning as just achievement data	25
The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump	23
“The freshness of irreverence”: learning from ACT UP toward sociopolitical action in science education	22
Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective	20
All that glitters is not gold: confronting race-neutral perspectives on diversity and equity across STEM curricula	18
It can’t just be science: preservice elementary science teachers' ideas for teaching a social justice science issue	18
How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education	18
Culturally relevant/responsive and sustaining pedagogies in science education: theoretical perspectives and curriculum implications	17
Equity for whom? Synthesizing examinations of multilingual learners’ language practices across asset-based science education research	16
Correction: Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	16
“The heavy burden”: Indigenous knowledge systems, biocultural diversity, and transknowledging in sciences education	15
Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling	15
Eight lessons on teaching the origin of life	14
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning: a book review	14
The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks	13
A critical race theory analysis of the draw-a-scientist test: are they really that white?	12
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán	12
Expanding the border of science education through the lens of Buddhist mindfulness	11
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
STEM learning as care work	9
100 years of gratitude: what I learned from Freire	9
Expanding the interpretive functions of framing for understanding marginalized students’ participation in collaboration and learning	9

What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting	9
The importance of learning with/on/from land and place while honoring reciprocity in Indigenous science education	9
Dialoguing with Freire and Butler about chaos: a provocative organising exercise in my PhD	9
The (re)production of insecurities: an ethnographic study of the gendered science classroom in upper secondary school	8
On the muckiness of science, ethics, and preservice teacher education: contemplating the (im)possibilities of a ‘right’-eous stance	8
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science	8
Cultivating Black girls’ science identities in middle and secondary science classrooms	7
The sociocultural practices in a science classroom and the influence on Black girls’ girlhood	7
Black girls matter: A critical analysis of educational spaces and call for community-based programs	6
Blind spots in elementary students’ perceptions regarding the food system: expanding Fonseca’s research on depictions of animal food production in Portuguese textbooks	6
Moving beyond student surveys and toward critical consciousness in science education	6
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
Cultural decolonization and implications for pedagogy in integrating STEM-IKS education in the Global South	6
Intra-action analysis of emergent science phenomena: examining meaning-making with the more than human in science classrooms	6
Creative pedagogies in digital STEAM practices: natural, technological and cultural entanglements for powerful learning and activism	6
Pictorial representations of preservice elementary teachers’ views about science teaching and learning	6
Educating Klaren: neoliberal ideology in teacher education impacting candidate preparation and the teaching of science to Black students	5
South epistemologies to invent post-pandemic science education	5
Explanations as cultural tools in science education	5
Critical thinking in the making: students’ critical thinking practices in a multifaceted SSI project	5
Science and poetry: poems as an educational tool for biology teaching	5
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education	5
Black liberatory science education: positioning Black youth as science learners through recognizing brilliance	5
Just worlding design principles: childrens’ multispecies and radical care priorities in science and engineering education	5
Myths and matters of science education: a critical discourse on science and standards	5