| Pedagog̕ijas vēsture: skola, skolotājs, skolēns I Ķestere Zvaigzne ABC, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| Controlling the image of the teacher’s body under authoritarianism: the case of Soviet Latvia (1953–1984) I Kestere, B Kalke Paedagogica Historica 54 (1-2), 184-203, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| The visual image of teachers: a ten-country perspective I Kestere, B Kalke Revista Colombiana de Educación, 19-40, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| The visual image of the teacher: a comparative study I Kestere, C Wolhuter, R Lozano Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia 30 (30), 92-103, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Educating the new Soviet man: Propagated image and hidden resistance in Soviet Latvia I Kestere, MJF González Historia scholastica 7 (1), 11-32, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| History of education and the struggle for intellectual liberation in post-Soviet Baltic space after the fall of the Berlin Wall I Ķestere Shaping the History of Education?, 148-155, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Development of history of education in the context of teacher training in universities: the case of Latvia and Belgium I Ķestere, I Ozola Tiltai 66 (1), 13-28, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| History of education and pedagogical thought in the Baltic countries up to 1940: An overview I Ķestere, A Krūze, V Sirk, O Tijūnėlienė Izdevniecība RaKa, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| The New Soviet Man with a female body: mother, teacher, tractor driver… I Kestere, I Stonkuviene, Z Rubene Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia 45, 97-109, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| The visual image of the teacher: International comparative perspectives I Kestere, CC Wolhuter, R Lozano RaKa, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Pedagogy: A discipline under diverse appellations I Ķestere, I Ozola Baltic Journal of European Studies 1 (1), 9, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| History of education journals and the development of historical research on education in Eastern Europe (1990-2016) A Nóbik, I Kestere, J Gulczyńska IJHE Bildungsgeschichte–International Journal for the Historiography of …, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Teacher's visual image: the Latvian student perspective I Kestere, B Kalke Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, Social Inclusion …, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| Introduction: power–invisible architecture of education I Kestere, Z Rubene, I Stonkuviene Paedagogica Historica 51 (1-2), 5-10, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| History of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences in the Baltic Countries from 1940 to 1990: an Overview I Ķestere, A Krūze Riga: RaKa, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| 'We seek revelation with our eyes': engaging with school cultures through montage I Grosvenor, I Dussel, I Kestere, K Priem, L Rasmussen, A Van Gorp Encounters in Theory and History of Education 17, 2-26, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| The school theatre as a place of cultural learning: the case of Soviet Latvia (1960s–1980s) I Kestere Paedagogica Historica 53 (3), 318-341, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| The classroom as an arena for political propaganda: Communism and Nazism in Latvian classrooms (1940-1956) I Ķestere Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente 8 (12), 34-69, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| Schools of general education I Kestere, ES Sarv, V Juškiene, J Bukantiene, A Lukoševičius History of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences in the Baltic Countries from, 42-68, 1940 | 5 | 1940 |
| The Baltic Historians of Pedagogy and the International Standing Conference for the History of Education I Kestere Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum 2 (2), 127-132, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
