OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Education for Teaching is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable and democratic education: opening spaces for complexity, subjectivity and the future	49
Why do teachers need to know about child development? Strengthening professional identity and well-being	38
The teacher educator: pedagogue, researcher, role model, administrator, traveller, counsellor, collaborator, technologist, academic, thinker ………. compliance or autonomy?	24
University faculty leaders’ views of teacher educators’ professional development	18
Creating digital literacy spaces for multilingual writers	15
What works in initial teacher education?	15
Intercultural approaches to education: from theory to practice Intercultural approaches to education: from theory to practice , by Abdeljalil Akkari and Myriam Radhouane	15
International student mobility: exploring identities and engagements International student mobility: exploring identities and engagements , by Jasper Kun-Ting Hsieh, Lon	15
The role of initial and continuing professional education in recruitment and retention of teachers: the importance of a basis of social justice	13
Leveraging prospective teachers’ reflections to challenge spaces of marginality	12
‘Against the odds’: a study into the nature of protective factors that support and facilitate a sample of individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds into the teaching profession	12
‘I’m a foreign teacher’: legitimate positionings in the stories of a migrant teacher	11
Teacher education as an ongoing professional trajectory: implications for policy and practice Teacher education as an ongoing professional trajectory: implications for policy and practi	11
Exploring mentor self-disclosure in preservice teachers’ field experience	11
Effects of an outbound transcultural teacher education programme to prepare teachers for relationships with students	11
‘The gap between the ideal and the reality’: barriers to the implementation of an English professional development programme in China	10
Innovation in teacher professional learning in europe: research, policy, and practice Innovation in teacher professional learning in europe: research, policy, and practice	10
Enhancing professional empathy to mitigate for marginalisation and the critical gaze in teacher development: a phenomenological framework	9
Promises and challenges of differentiated instruction as pre-service teachers learn to address pupil diversity	8
Teacher-as-researcher: a foundational principle for teacher education	8
Fostering teacher competence through classroom-based research during field experiences	8
Outdoor Environmental Education in Higher Education: International Perspectives	8
Policy efforts to meet UNESCO’s Sustainable development Goal 4: A 3-pronged approach	7
Lens model studies: Revealing teachers’ judgements for teacher education	7
Quantitative research methods for communication: a hands-on approach	7

Discrimination and social bias towards disabled STEM military-veteran secondary teachers: how do disabled veteran STEM secondary teachers make sense of their teaching career	7
Identity, motivation, and multilingual education in Asian contexts	7
Developing new professional identities: from in-service teacher to in-service teacher educator	7
From upper-level professional engineers to secondary engineering teachers: a study of pre-service second-career teachers in Australia and the United States	6
Changes in teacher education provision: comparative experiences internationally	6
‘Not fully coordinated’: the loosely coupled paradigm as a framework for understanding relationships of educators in teacher education programmes	6
Disorienting dilemmas and transformative learning for school placement teacher educators during COVID-19: challenges and possibilities	6
Structuring the lesson: an empirical investigation of pre-service teacher decision-making during the planning of a demonstration lesson	6
Understanding professional commitment change of novice CFL university teachers: an integrated perspective	6
Inspiring contributions from the Network on Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education (KOSS) International perspectives on knowle	5
Contextual corroboration in teacher education: transferability of the niche, the unique and the unusual	5
Evaluating the implementation of curriculum reform: the perspectives of Welsh teachers navigating the new health and wellbeing area of learning experience	5
Action research in a teacher education program: probing into pre-service elementary teachers’ understandings of scientific practices and teaching scientific practices	5
Managing the emotional aspects of compassion fatigue among teachers in Israel: a qualitative study	5
The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy , by Jon Cree & Marina Robb, London, Routledge,	5
Learning through life and the ethics of teaching: a story told in fifteen voices	5
Seeking serendipity: teacher educators as adaptive experts during COVID	4
Enhancing non-verbal communication in online classes: a conceptual framework	4
Teacher education emergent: adaptability, agility and optimism through the Covid-19 crisis	4
‘It’s like Central Park’: conceptualising teacher residencies as a democratic hub	4
Identifying information friction in teacher professional development: insights from teacher-reported need and satisfaction	4
Reflective practice in second language teacher education: a scoping review	4
Swimming with crocodiles: understanding Hong Kong teachers’ experiences of implementing differentiated instruction through a school-university partnership programme	4
Growth in language teachers’ understanding of differentiated instruction: a sociocultural theory perspective	4
Beginning student teachers’ motivations for becoming teachers and their educational ideals	4
Enhancing teachers’ STEM understanding through observation, discussion and reflection	4
Investigating the default intention among preservice teachers in the free teacher education programme: implications for enhancing rural education quality	4
From teacher to senior teacher educator: exploring the teaching-research nexus in Israeli Academic Colleges of Education	4
Beyond reactive responses to enduring growth: the transformation of principles and practices within initial teacher education	4
Four spheres of student-teachers’ professional identity formation through learning about curriculum development	4
Perspectives on a flipped ‘English language teaching methods course’ and the association of satisfaction with digital learner characteristics	4
Cooperative learning in teacher education: its effects on EFL pre-service teachers’ content knowledge and teaching self-efficacy	4
Fit between applicants’ prior knowledge and university selection criteria: study of Finnish teacher education student admission in 2013–2015	3
New insights into the career-long education of the professional, hands-on teacher	3
Teacher leaders as teacher educators: recognising the ‘educator’ dimension of some teacher leaders’ practice	3
Prospective Teachers’ Academic Success in Myanmar: Successful Intelligence and Personality Effects	3
Key Indicator Taxonomy of Relational Teaching	3
Professionalisation of initial teacher education in China: 1974–2024	3
Assessment-as-learning in classrooms: the challenges and professional development	3
Continuity, change and challenge: unearthing the (fr)agility of teacher education	3
The purposes of internationalisation – future teachers’ perspectives	3
Cooperative games in education: building community without competition, Pre-K-12	3
An extended model of school-university partnership for professional development: bridging universities’ theoretical knowledge and teachers’ practical knowledge	3
Cultivating kindness and emotional care: a transformative teacher training programme in Sicily	3
Enhancing student teachers’ epistemology of reflective practice while still at the university: Evidence from a sheltered reflective practicum	3
Addressing the needs of early childhood teachers in promoting motor development through a co-design process	3
The role of schools within initial teacher education in England: an exploration of the shifting policy focus over the past 50 years	3
The contested nature of teachers’ knowledge: towards professional understanding	3
Supporting teacher educators’ professional learning through lesson study	3
Probing curriculum coherence in pre-service teacher education: an exploratory study	3

Student teachers’ perception of academic writing: challenges and pedagogical needs	3
Teachers’ learning and knowledge: motivation and self-efficacy	3
Bringing the neuroscience of learning to online teaching: an educator’s handbook	3
Lesson-study on health education with pre-service biology teachers	3
Bringing digital resource decision-making up to date: preparing the inaugural class of digitalised preservice teachers for informed evaluation of digital resources	3
‘Those who fail should not be teachers’: Pre-service Teachers’ Understandings of Failure and Teacher Identity Development	3
Fifty years of initial teacher education in Portugal: looking back, looking forward	3