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Indigenous and Place-Based Education

Indigenous and Place-Based Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on place-based education in rural communities, emphasizing the importance of connecting learning to local environments, cultures, and communities. It explores critical pedagogy, environmental education, community engagement, cultural relevance, and sustainability within the context of rural education. The papers also discuss the challenges and opportunities for curriculum development and teacher preparation in these settings.

  • Place-Based Education
  • Rural Communities
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Environmental Education
  • Community Engagement
  • Cultural Relevance
  • Sustainability
  • Social Justice
  • Curriculum Development
  • Teacher Preparation
Research works
5.8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
589
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indigenous and Place-Based Education

Which countries lead Indigenous and Place-Based Education research?

By volume, the United States and Australia publish the most (780 and 214 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 780 works
  2. 2 Australia 214 works
  3. 3 Canada 191 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 96 works
  5. 5 Philippines 49 works
  6. 6 India 46 works
  7. 7 China 45 works
  8. 8 South Africa 44 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 43 works
  10. 10 New Zealand 40 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: 50.4%Australia: 13.8%Canada: 12.3%United Kingdom: 6.2%6 others listed: 17.3%50%largest
United States780 · 50.4%Australia214 · 13.8%Canada191 · 12.3%United Kingdom96 · 6.2%6 others listed268 · 17.3%

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

Which institutions lead Indigenous and Place-Based Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Melbourne publishes the most Indigenous and Place-Based Education research, followed by University of British Columbia and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of MelbourneAustralia 18 works
  2. 2 University of British ColumbiaCanada 18 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 15 works
  4. 4 University of CalgaryCanada 12 works
  5. 5 Simon Fraser UniversityCanada 12 works
  6. 6 Deakin UniversityAustralia 11 works
  7. 7 Utah State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 University of AlbertaCanada 9 works
  9. 9 The University of QueenslandAustralia 9 works
  10. 10 University of ManitobaCanada 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Indigenous and Place-Based Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indigenous and Place-Based Education include Paul Elliott, Jonathan Rhys Carapetis and Herbert W. Marsh.

  1. 1 Paul Elliott United Kingdom 154k citations
  2. 2 Jonathan Rhys Carapetis Australia 130k citations
  3. 3 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k 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 Indigenous and Place-Based Education?

The most cited paper in Indigenous and Place-Based Education is "Decolonization is not a metaphor" (Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, 2012), with 4,103 citations. Next come "The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place" (2,166) and "What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? A Loving Critique Forward" (1,661).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Decolonization is not a metaphor Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang · TSpace (University of Toronto) Open access 8 Sep 2012 4,103
2 The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place David A. Gruenewald · Educational Researcher May 2003 2,166
3 What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? A Loving Critique Forward Django Paris, H. Samy Alim · Harvard Educational Review Apr 2014 1,661
4 Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy · The Urban Review Dec 2005 1,219
5 Foundations of Place: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Place-Conscious Education David A. Gruenewald · American Educational Research Journal 2003 1,197
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Where is Indigenous and Place-Based Education research done?

The largest centres of Indigenous and Place-Based Education research in 2022-now are Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Sydney (Australia) and Brisbane (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MelbourneAustralia 43 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 30 works
  3. 3 SydneyAustralia 29 works
  4. 4 BrisbaneAustralia 28 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 VancouverCanada 18 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  8. 8 AucklandNew Zealand 17 works
  9. 9 PerthAustralia 15 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 15 works
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Where is the best place to study Indigenous and Place-Based Education?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, UNSW Sydney and University of British Columbia 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.

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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
1The University of MelbourneAustralia 68.113.1%9.9×18 +68.6%
2UNSW SydneyAustralia 64.937.2%5.9×9 +78.7%
3University of British ColumbiaCanada 53.04.7%8.9×18 -4.2%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 52.316.0%14.7×11 +75.1%
5University of TorontoCanada 49.514.6%4.5×15 +9.2%
6Simon Fraser UniversityCanada 46.69.4%26.3×12 +29.0%
7University of CalgaryCanada 41.19.3%11.1×12 +13.5%
8University of AucklandNew Zealand 39.914.8%9.8×9 +11.9%
9The University of QueenslandAustralia 35.216.7%5.8×9 +82.1%
10University of ManitobaCanada 33.08.7%16.5×9 +203.3%

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 Indigenous and Place-Based Education, country by country

Is Indigenous and Place-Based Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Indigenous and Place-Based Education.

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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 Indigenous and Place-Based Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0061% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Indigenous and Place-Based Education0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Indigenous and Place-Based Education 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%Indigenous and Place-Based Education10.6% 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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