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Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of citizenship education, historical thinking, and social studies curriculum. It delves into topics such as civic knowledge, controversial issues in education, teaching history, cultural diversity, and the use of primary sources to foster critical literacy. The papers examine the pedagogical strategies, challenges, and opportunities in educating for democracy and developing students' understanding of historical consciousness.

  • Citizenship Education
  • Historical Thinking
  • Social Studies
  • Civic Knowledge
  • Controversial Issues
  • Democratic Education
  • Teaching History
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Primary Sources
  • Critical Literacy
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

Which countries lead Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (1.5k and 472 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 Türkiye 472 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 305 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 261 works
  5. 5 Australia 238 works
  6. 6 Canada 221 works
  7. 7 Spain 215 works
  8. 8 Germany 211 works
  9. 9 China 171 works
  10. 10 Brazil 124 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 40.1%Türkiye: 12.7%United Kingdom: 8.2%Indonesia: 7.1%6 others listed: 31.9%40%largest
United States1,483 · 40.1%Türkiye472 · 12.7%United Kingdom305 · 8.2%Indonesia261 · 7.1%6 others listed1,180 · 31.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği publishes the most Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research, followed by University College London and Indonesia University of Education.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 32 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  3. 3 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 26 works
  4. 4 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 26 works
  5. 5 Universidad de MurciaSpain 25 works
  6. 6 Columbia UniversityUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 University of HelsinkiFinland 21 works
  8. 8 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  9. 9 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  10. 10 Universiti of Malaysia SabahMalaysia 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy include Michel Foucault, Paul Elliott and Yvonna S. Lincoln.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Paul Elliott United Kingdom 154k citations
  3. 3 Yvonna S. Lincoln United States 148k citations
  4. 4 James Larkin United Kingdom 135k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy?

The most cited paper in Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy is "Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct" (M. Frank Pajares, 1992), with 8,465 citations. Next come "Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry" (4,806) and "2. But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" (3,485).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct M. Frank Pajares · Review of Educational Research Open access Sep 1992 8,465
2 Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean Clandinin · Educational Researcher Jun 1990 4,806
3 2. But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Gloria J Ladson-Billings · Theory Into Practice Jun 1995 3,485
4 Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Django Paris · Educational Researcher Open access 29 Mar 2012 3,282
5 What Do New Views of Knowledge and Thinking Have to Say About Research on Teacher Learning? Ralph T. Putnam, Hilda Borko · Educational Researcher 2000 3,122
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kota Kinabalu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 99 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 61 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 56 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 51 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 44 works
  7. 7 BudapestHungary 42 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 39 works
  9. 9 OsloNorway 34 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kota KinabaluMY · 20.1 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oslo, University College London and University of Michigan score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 26.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Utrecht UniversityUniversity of MichiganUniversity of OsloUniversity College L…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of OsloNorway 76.826.8%6.2×19 +37.5%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.019.8%3.6×28 -19.0%
3University of MichiganUnited States 65.730.7%1.9×14 +24.8%
4Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 62.532.0%3.2×11 +10.1%
5University of HelsinkiFinland 61.316.9%6.2×21 -19.1%
6Kennesaw State UniversityUnited States 61.223.4%25.9×15 +23.0%
7University of AucklandNew Zealand 60.828.7%5.7×15 -19.1%
8University of JyväskyläFinland 60.227.9%9.3×8 +21.8%
9University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 60.139.8%1.6×9 +37.1%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 58.619.7%2.3×16 +31.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, country by country

Is Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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