OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Teachers and Teaching is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field	57
‘The grass is greener where you water it’: nurturing relationships and witnessing learning as sources of teacher joy amidst stress for early childhood teachers in the United States	30
Equity, inclusion, and UDL: examining teacher educators’ experiences, understandings, and pedagogy through poetic representations	28
Can older teachers better handle crises? Overload feelings and work seepage into the private space during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Headteachers’ and teachers’ perspectives on the work of school improvement support officers in selected basic schools in Ghana	27
Teacher development in an evolving online professional learning community: an action research study	26
Communicating in primary science: exploring the reported language practices of Australian primary teachers	22
Does community matter?: a study on rural chinese teachers’ turnover	22
Teacher education and early teaching career	19
The role of ‘AI advocate’ teachers in mediating technological change across Australian schools	19
Exploring teacher–parent relationships in times of Covid-19: teachers’ expectations and parental home-schooling strategies in a Flemish context	19
Teachers with religious commitments in religiously affiliated schools: caution and connection	19
‘One doesn’t just move online’: an intersectional analysis of teachers’ response to the crisis of pandemic teaching	18
Acceptance of gay and lesbian people among Polish teachers: the roles of intergroup contact and belief in LGBT conspiracy ideology	18
A psychosocial reading of teacher agency	17
Factors affecting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching in primary education	17
Philosophising with children – learning to live with uncertainty as a condition of human life and a challenge for teaching and learning	16
The phenomenon of uncertainty as an opportunity, challenge and characteristic in the field of physical education: a systematic review	16
Keeping students close or afar? Whom, how and what for	15
Cultivating teacher agency and professional autonomy in higher education through feature films and television series	15
A critical review of professional ethical codes for teachers in Israel	14
Using instructional leadership to implement the 108 Curriculum Guidelines: a case study at a general senior high school in Taiwan	14
The conflicted role of uncertainty in teaching and teacher education	13
Blurred discourses of professionalism in teacher education institutions	13
Seeking the cosmopolitan teacher: internationalising curricula in a Canadian preservice teacher education program	12

Called to teach? The contribution of positive psychology constructs in the retention of secondary school teachers in England	12
Associations between childhood trauma, perceived resilience, and teacher burnout	12
Teaching English to multilingual immigrant students: understanding teachers’ beliefs and practices	12
Publisher’s Note	11
The teacher as double agent: performative compliance, allegiance and survival in the contemporary classroom	11
‘It didn’t feel like something extra we had to do; it was something we all looked forward to’ - how school-based professional learning communities can reimagine teacher professional learning for inclu	11
Critical thinking in the national curriculum and teacher education in South Korea: a missing link	11
‘I’m not sure how they would react if they knew…’: navigating social and teacher identities	11
Understanding kindergarten teacher self-efficacy for providing reading instruction to students with reading difficulties	10
Development of resilience among Chinese rural teachers: a social ecological perspective	10
Emotional, behavioural, and conceptual dimensions of teacher-parent simulations	10
Effectiveness of teachers’ professional development in Dalits’ opportunities for capability development in Nepal	10
Relationship between early childhood teachers’ perceived parenting, coping flexibility, and teacher efficacy: a comparison between Korea and China	10
Racial microaggressions on the initial teacher education programmes: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention	10
Teacher collaboration and innovative learning spaces in New Zealand	10
Explicit teaching of reflective practice (RP) in pre-service teacher education: probing the immediate and long-term influence	10
‘Now it goes to my blood’: Australian early career preschool teachers’ experiences of learning theories of child development at university	10
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces	10
Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS	10
Using found poetry to explore creativity in the professional lives of English teachers	9
There are still more black boys in the office: educators’ perspectives on racial discipline disparities after restorative justice implementation	9
Agency and professional identity among mobile teachers: how does the experience of teaching abroad shape teachers’ professional identity?	9
Access to mathematics learning for lower secondary students in England during school closures: implications for equity and quality	9
Looking back to move forward: re-examining “alternative” certification as a site for teacher learning	9
What’s an innovation? Capitalising on disruptive innovation in higher education	9
Learning through perplexities in inquiry-based learning settings in teacher education	9
Diagnosing and treating parents: a new perspective on teacher-parent relationships	9
Examining the relationships among teaching assistants’ self-efficacy, emotional well-being and job satisfaction	8
Understanding why Western expatriate teachers choose to work in non-traditional international schools in Vietnam	8
Layering identities as artist, advocate, and theatre educator: reflecting beyond experiences	8
STEAM in early childhood education: teachers’ curriculum design thinking and implementation self-efficacy	8
Teacher collaboration: how conditions of accountability shape teachers’ autonomy, responsibilities, and relationships	8
Moving towards preservice teachers’ implementation of universal design for learning: the central role of self-efficacy	8
Understanding factors related to teacher job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of emotional well-being	7
Queering the English language classroom: An autoethnographic exploration of teacher agency for social justice	7
Gender bias and gender equality beliefs in teaching efficacy profiles of Finnish physical education teachers	7
Technology Integration as a Spectrum: integrating technology in early childhood classrooms	7
Educating for uncertainty in what is certainly an uncertain world	7
Editorial note	7
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education	7
Teaching bodies: movement-based performing arts as an approach to embodied education in secondary teacher training	7
Teacher education as stakeholder: teacher educator perspectives on the integration of computational thinking into mathematics and science courses	7
Teachers’ perceptions of what knowledge they need to foster their multicultural competence: what are the implications for in-service teacher education programmes?	7
Breaking down the walls of the ‘Ivory Tower’: critical reflections on how co-teaching partnerships can bridge the gap between inclusive education theory and practice	7
School and social educational vulnerability in Chile: experiences and preparedness of novice teachers of English	7
COVID-19 influencing preschool practice in Iceland: ‘we now have the opportunity to stop and observe what is happening’	7
Co-constructed engagement with Australian Aboriginal families in early childhood education	7
Changed for the better: positive teacher experiences with COVID-19 driven changes	7
Walk in my shoes: Teacher experiences in a U.S. Rural state through the framework of an ecological systems model	6
Guest editorial: the drive for equity and quality during the pandemic era: considerations and implications for teachers and teaching	6

Interpersonal relationships and organisational commitment. Longitudinal evidence from school staff in England	6
Preparing teachers for diversity: how are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity – the case of Austria and Ireland	6
An audit of commercialisation and outsourcing across the primary school curriculum	6
Algorithmic futures: an analysis of teacher professional digital competence frameworks through an algorithm literacy lens	6
Tutors’ relational professionalism and care-based personalisation in Italy: facilitating innovation in a formalist school culture	6
Professional development programmes on playful learning for early childhood teachers: a systematic review	6
Wellbeing under threat: Multiply marginalized and underrepresented teachers’ intersecting identities	6
Perceived relatedness-support matters most for teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective	6
Still standing: an ecological perspective on teachers remaining in hard-to-staff schools	6
Second-career teachers entering schools: experiences of colleagues	6
Dispelling Deficit Framing: Investigating Preservice Teacher Beliefs About the Intersections between Literacy Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	6
Critical thinking from the ground up: teachers’ conceptions and practice in EFL classrooms	5
Performing agriculture education: reflections from women who teach agriculture in Australian secondary schools	5
Knowledge as justice: examining the for-s, in-s, and of-s of an antibias, anti-racist teacher inquiry group	5
Characteristics of social support experienced by differently engaged student teachers	5
Supporting early-career teachers with external mentoring: a scoping review	5
Context matters: rethinking graduate teacher readiness for hard-to-staff schools	5
Expertise and professionalism for inclusive (mathematics) teaching and learning: reflections on findings from interdisciplinary professionalisation research	5
An investigation into the dynamicity of pre-service language teachers’ well-being trajectories: a classroom-based study	5
Knowing when to step in: linking teachers’ behavioural responses to workplace dissatisfaction with intent to leave	5
Visioning teacher educators in the development of culturally responsive teacher education standards	5
How does newly qualified teachers’ collegial network foster their feedback-seeking behaviour and job satisfaction?	5
Striving to cope: The quest for social justice in initial teacher education in Uruguay	5
Profiling teacher educators’ strategies for professional digital competence development	5
Teaching within the ‘margins’: capturing the challenges, tensions, and rewards of alternative education	5
The great resignation in teaching: illuminating an ongoing “crisis” in teacher dehumanization	5
‘To teach or not to teach?’ An exploration of the career choices of educational professionals	5
Teaching “Home” in the curriculum	5
Open towards the future. A reinvigoration of practical wisdom in teaching with a view to subjectification	5
Teachers’ attachment moderates links between students’ internalizing and externalizing problems, teacher-student relationships, and students’ school-related attitudes	5