OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Teacher Education 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Educating teachers for diversity – a Herculean task?	58
Investigating preservice mathematics teachers’ formative assessment strategies across mathematical competency demands	40
Pushing crisis response towards sustainable transformation? Reflections from a case analysis of crisis-framed policy actions on teacher education in three European settings	40
‘I view teaching differently’: identity development of university teachers doing professional doctorates	37
Who are university-based teacher educators? Voices from China	33
‘I can’t leave my nephews and nieces’: emotional geographies of special post teacher’s retention in Chinese rural schools	30
Internationalising teacher education at home: developing empathy through the sense of otherness in language learning	27
When teaching competes with research for academics’ attention: addressing a key challenge in developing teaching excellence in the European university	27
The association between teacher efficacy and teacher burnout expectancy among Swedish student teachers	26
Who do they think they are? Professional identity of Chinese university-based teacher educators	26
Providing opportunities and experiences to support student teacher self-efficacy: the case for teaching as inquiry	26
From teacher surplus to teacher shortage and its effects on teacher education: the Portuguese case	24
University supervisors’ conversation strategies for triadic supervision in teacher education	23
Research on relevant and diverse issues in teacher education	23
School practicum experiences at the time of Covid-19: Focusing on the implementation of play practices	22
Exploring the impact of an online learning community to support student teachers on school placement	22
Supporting teacher agency during a collaborative inquiry-based in-service teacher education course	22
‘But that is also not quite right’: social justice from the lenses of prospective teachers	21
Rethinking teacher education in/for challenging times: reconciling enduring tensions, imagining new possibilities	20
Generic or subject-specific? A survey comparing Dutch secondary school visual art teachers’ early-career experiences to teacher experiences in non-arts subjects	18
Teacher educators’ diversity-responsive practices: instrument development for quantitative assessment	18
Making individual teacher educator professional agency visible: findings from the teacher educator living library	17
What does it mean to be(come) a professional bilingual education teacher?	16
Becoming and being a TESOL teacher educator: research and practice	16
The double-negative effects of early entry and out-of-field teaching on preservice teachers’ professionalization	16

Newly qualified teachers as a resource in school in a micropolitical perspective	16
Unveiling awareness gaps: pre-service teachers and responsible consumption in Spain	15
Teachers’ adaptations to COVID-19: perceived preparedness for distance education, frequency of teacher-student contact, and resources in ICT	14
Evaluation of an educational intervention programme on education for sustainable development in the physical education teacher training	14
Tensions experienced by second-career student teachers at the start of their training programme	14
Participants’ perceptions of video-enhanced dialogic assessment as reflective practice in international teacher education	13
Policy influences and dilemmas in senior teacher educators’ enacted professionalism	13
How to achieve ‘egalitarian’ interaction between student teachers and mentor teachers? A study of a one-school-year teacher practicum in Germany	12
Reimagining assessment design in higher education through Design Thinking	12
‘Reflecting on every move’: the role of video in simulation-based learning for teacher Education	12
Stewardship, scholarship and responsibility: the work of teacher educators	12
Navigating transformative assessment and feedback in teacher education: unveiling challenges and innovative practices	12
Globalisation and teacher education in the BRICS countries:The positioning of research and practice in comparative perspective	12
Practising and teaching computational thinking and debugging – a cross-disciplinary study on pre-service teachers’ reflections in Norway and Denmark	11
Enhancing student teachers’ perceived pedagogical competence and motivation: the role of learning methods in blended ECE teacher education	11
Fostering student teachers’ agency in distance education: a service-learning approach in computer-supported collaborative learning environments	11
Practicum in teacher education: the role of psychological detachment and supervisors’ feedback and reflection in student teachers’ well-being	11
Exploring beliefs among Chinese preschool teachers and their associations with perceived practices and process quality	11
Relationship between science teachers’ teaching motivations and career development aspirations	11
Exploring the role of online peer observation in the construction process of language teacher online identity	11
Competencies of music teachers in primary schools in Catalonia: an exploratory study	11
Unravelling early childhood education students’ motivation and commitment to the teaching profession: a longitudinal narrative case study	10
Investigating STEM interest, mathematics beliefs and gender stereotypes among pre-service early childhood educators	10
Professional digital competence beliefs of student teachers, pre-service teachers and teachers: Validating an instrument based on the DigCompEdu framework	9
What is the perception of the bullying training provided to pre-service Physical Education teachers?	9
Teachers’ shortage and initial teacher education reforms in Italy: an overview	9
Job demands and resources as Predictors of well-being in Portuguese teachers	9
Preparing pre-service teachers to embrace research-informed teaching practice: a cross-national study of teacher educators’ capabilities	9
Pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward gameful practices – a systematic review	9
Effect of a need-supportive training programme on novice teachers’ motivating style and students’ engagement: the role of video-based discussion	9
Placement stress and year-level differences in pre-service teachers’ use of generative AI: a mixed-methods study in an Irish initial teacher education programme	9
Motivation and professional development needs of foreign language teacher educators	9
Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account	9
Predicting profiles of early-career teachers’ readiness for online teaching in primary and secondary Education	8
Reflective thinking among Finnish pre-service teachers and its relation to metacognitive awareness	8
The discursive positioning of teacher education in the Flemish teacher shortages policy debate: praise, blame, tensions, and contradictions	8
Mentors as agents of policy learning: (Im)possible mission? The case of a national policy implementation in teacher education	8
(Trans)formation of student teachers’ professional identity through problem-based learning in Korea	8
Why micro-teaching falls short in pre-service teacher education: a conversation analytic comparison of designed and actual troubles in teaching practices	8
International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implicatio	8
Co-creating physical education teacher education: An autoethnographic study of collaborative development, teaching, and research with students	7
Examining the difficulties and support during an inquiry-based practicum: pre-service teachers and school mentors’ experiences	7
The practicum in initial teacher education – enduring challenges, evolving practices and future research directions	7
Why teacher education matters even more	7
What do future Spanish primary education teachers know about physical maps?	7
Research on teacher education: mirror and compass	7
Examining peer group mentoring in teaching practicum and its impact on the process of pre-service teachers’ joint reflection	7
Prevalence of neuromyths among in-service preschool and primary school Romanian teachers	7
Assessment for Learning: Developing the required teacher competencies	7
Career aspirations of the students preparing to work as teachers in Poland, Latvia and Ukraine	6

How to keep teachers in a profession in times of budget shortages?	6
Reframing teacher education around inclusion, equity, and social justice: towards an authentically value-centred approach to teacher education in Europe	6
Career-related concerns and opportunities in the times of COVID-19 pandemic among preservice teachers	6
Developing preservice teachers’ school-organisational competence: insights from primary teacher education programmes in the Netherlands and Belgium	6
Mobility of novice teachers	6
Becoming a safe adult for pupils: emotions as part of first-year student teachers’ narrative identities told with photographs	6
The role of knowledge, attitude, and emotions in Spanish pre-service teachers’ willingness to engage in climate change education	6
To teach or not to teach? Preferences for working conditions and the alternative career opportunities of pre-service teachers	6
From awareness to practice: primary school and secondary school mathematics teachers’ dyscalculia-related knowledge, awareness, and instructional practices	6
Student teachers’ reactions to formative teacher and peer feedback	6
Cultivating scholarly excellence and growth: the value and impact of peer review	6
Teacher educators’ adoption of artificial intelligence: A qualitative UTAUT study	5
Holistic teacher education: emphasising relationships, pedagogies and environments	5
Reflecting on metaphors and the possibilities of ‘language change’ in teaching and teacher education	5
Implementation models for teacher peer feedback: A systematic review	5
Devising writing instruction methods for deaf students in a teachers’ Professional Learning Community	5
Governance of teacher education in the Netherlands: redesigning a professional register to support inclusion and continuing professional development	5
Higher education-based teacher educators’ researcherly disposition: An international perspective	5
The production of a child in conflict in teacher education – research on available storylines	5
Agency in negotiating partnerships in initial teacher education: shifting sands	5
‘I am struggling to survive’: financial inequity in postgraduate teacher education in England	5
Enacting a new policy of preservice teacher education in Portugal: teacher educators’ positioning towards top-down change	5
The longing to just be – a belonging body in teacher education	5
Teachers’ generative AI-facilitated informal learning: A scope review	5
High-quality practicum – according to teacher education students on their practicum at partnership schools	5
Exploring the knowledge structure of coping strategies in teacher education research using bibliometric analysis	5
Student teachers’ judgements of students’ academic and social characteristics: exploring the roles of teaching motivation and students’ socioeconomic status	5
The impact of a theory-practice-based professionalisation program on student teachers’ knowledge, motivation, and beliefs	5
Supporting early career teachers’ self-regulation and goal pursuit through online coaching during a professional development programme	5
Professional learning in technology integration across successive teaching conditions: a six-year longitudinal study of university EFL instructors	4
Global lessons for local educators: how international online exchanges can shape preservice teachers’ professional sense-making	4
Pre-service teachers co-constructing narratives about the future of education	4
The underlying beliefs in Pirkko’s narrative about implementing collaborative learning in mathematics - ‘my job is to give individual instruction’	4
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment: the important space of authentic assignments	4
The intricate relationship between person, society and policy in education	4
Practicum experience: the role of practicum demands and resources in first and second career preservice teachers	4
An online practicum for teacher education students: emergent listening and seeing for quality praxis	4
The role of provisional beliefs in teacher development: impact of postgraduate study abroad on Japanese transborder teachers	4
Applying artificial intelligence in teacher education: preservice teachers’ attitudes and reflections in using ChatGPT for teaching and learning	4
Digital social story preparation skills: impact of an online course on special education teacher candidates	4
Does the duration of professional development programs influence effects on instruction? An analysis of 174 lessons during a national-scale program	4
Project-based learning as signature pedagogy for developing teacher professionalism in teacher education	4
Teacher shortage in Croatia – a challenge for educational policy, initial teacher education and educational institutions	4
Pre-service early childhood teachers’ reflections on specialist teaching methods and their experiences regarding the transfer of knowledge from theory to practice	4
Where internationalisation and digitalisation intersect: designing a virtual exchange to enhance student teachers’ professional awareness as European teachers	4
Artificial intelligence in the context of teacher education: emerging themes and critical issues	4
The antecedents of pre-service teachers’ AI literacy: perceptions about own AI driven applications, attitude towards AI and knowledge in machine learning	4
Investigating the difficulty level of aspects of teaching during field placement: from coursework to practice	4
How is teacher research conceptualised, and why does it remain a challenge? A scoping review	4
Promoting socio-emotional learning competencies in teacher education through online clinical simulations	4
Teacher induction as an ecosystem of practices: developing a new lens to understand the interrelated work of stakeholders	4
Developing a teacher research literacy framework for language teacher education	4
Exploring teacher educators’ challenges in the context of digital transformation and their self-reported TPACK: a mixed methods study	4
Cultivating transnational preservice teachers’ and parents’ creative identity, self-efficacy and critical thinking dispositions through collective participation in creative arts	4
Will we be capable? Creating and validating the AVACIE scale to evaluate pre-service teachers’ self-competence in assessing cyberbullying	3
Content representation as a foundation for lesson development and pedagogical content knowledge growth in biology teacher education	3
A feasible balance? The Italian teachers’ standpoint on assessment literacy, assessment practice, and teacher professional development	3
School culture and teaching practices for the effective student- centred learning during emergency remote teaching	3
Correction	3
Research on teacher educators’ teacher identities: critical interpretative synthesis and future directions	3
Reimagining and remaking teacher education: priorities, practices and dilemmas	3
The effects of formal and informal learning opportunities on teachers’ ICT-related attitudes and self-efficacy	3
The impact of generative AI tools on language teaching and learning: investigating prospective teachers’ self-directed learning	3
The evolving knowledge base on teacher professionalism: a bibliometric review from 1960 to 2024	3
Examining Teacher Educators’ Roles in Developing Preservice Teachers’ Digital Competence	3
What’s in it for me: mentors’ perspectives on their role in language teacher education in the Czech context	3
Narrative self-observation: a new framework for teacher professional development and identity research	3
Teachers’ digital competence for global teacher education	3
Pedagogical anchoring: world-making and spatial justice in China’s urban-rural borderlands	3
Authentic assessment as a support for student teachers’ reflection	3
Bridging programmes for internationally educated teachers: a systematic review of global initiatives, challenges and opportunities, 2010–2024	3
Teacher education for artificial intelligence literacy through a self-determination theory perspective	3
Understanding a pedagogy of teacher education: contexts for teaching and learning about your educational practice	3
From ‘sojourning’ to standards: a critical reflection on the evolution of initial teacher education policy in Ireland	3
Teacher education: student teachers’ ethics-related experiences from their placements in Uganda	3
How eTwinning scaffolds pedagogical transformation through generative AI: a European cross-national study	3
Enhancing the enactment of assessment for learning principles during school placement: preservice teachers as practitioner researchers within a learning community	3
Motives for becoming a teacher, coping strategies and teacher efficacy among Swedish student teachers	3
AI-TPACK in teacher education: investigating the role of AI-TPACK in multicultural teaching competencies and intercultural sensitivity of teacher candidates	3
Examining how generative AI tools benefit and challenge teachers’ research-informed practice	3