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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field	39
‘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	33
Teacher development in an evolving online professional learning community: an action research study	25
Does community matter?: a study on rural chinese teachers’ turnover	22
Are you positive that you’re positive?: The downside to maintaining positivity as a first-year teacher	21
Headteachers’ and teachers’ perspectives on the work of school improvement support officers in selected basic schools in Ghana	20
Can older teachers better handle crises? Overload feelings and work seepage into the private space during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
‘One doesn’t just move online’: an intersectional analysis of teachers’ response to the crisis of pandemic teaching	19
A psychosocial reading of teacher agency	19
Teachers with religious commitments in religiously affiliated schools: caution and connection	19
Exploring teacher–parent relationships in times of Covid-19: teachers’ expectations and parental home-schooling strategies in a Flemish context	19
Teacher education and early teaching career	18
Communicating in primary science: exploring the reported language practices of Australian primary teachers	18
Philosophising with children – learning to live with uncertainty as a condition of human life and a challenge for teaching and learning	18
The phenomenon of uncertainty as an opportunity, challenge and characteristic in the field of physical education: a systematic review	17
Factors affecting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching in primary education	17
Acceptance of gay and lesbian people among Polish teachers: the roles of intergroup contact and belief in LGBT conspiracy ideology	17
Seeking the cosmopolitan teacher: internationalising curricula in a Canadian preservice teacher education program	16
Keeping students close or afar? Whom, how and what for	16
Cultivating teacher agency and professional autonomy in higher education through feature films and television series	16
Associations between childhood trauma, perceived resilience, and teacher burnout	15
The teacher as double agent: performative compliance, allegiance and survival in the contemporary classroom	15
Teaching English to multilingual immigrant students: understanding teachers’ beliefs and practices	14
Culturally responsive teacher education: do we practice what we preach?	14
‘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	14

Blurred discourses of professionalism in teacher education institutions	14
The conflicted role of uncertainty in teaching and teacher education	13
Critical thinking in the national curriculum and teacher education in South Korea: a missing link	12
Publisher’s Note	12
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces	12
Racial microaggressions on the initial teacher education programmes: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention	12
Explicit teaching of reflective practice (RP) in pre-service teacher education: probing the immediate and long-term influence	11
Emotional, behavioural, and conceptual dimensions of teacher-parent simulations	11
Teacher collaboration and innovative learning spaces in New Zealand	11
Understanding kindergarten teacher self-efficacy for providing reading instruction to students with reading difficulties	11
Effectiveness of teachers’ professional development in Dalits’ opportunities for capability development in Nepal	11
Access to mathematics learning for lower secondary students in England during school closures: implications for equity and quality	10
Development of resilience among Chinese rural teachers: a social ecological perspective	10
Using found poetry to explore creativity in the professional lives of English teachers	10
Diagnosing and treating parents: a new perspective on teacher-parent relationships	10
Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS	10
What’s an innovation? Capitalising on disruptive innovation in higher education	9
There are still more black boys in the office: educators’ perspectives on racial discipline disparities after restorative justice implementation	9
Editorial note	8
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education	8
Learning through perplexities in inquiry-based learning settings in teacher education	8
Moving towards preservice teachers’ implementation of universal design for learning: the central role of self-efficacy	8
Agency and professional identity among mobile teachers: how does the experience of teaching abroad shape teachers’ professional identity?	8
Teacher collaboration: how conditions of accountability shape teachers’ autonomy, responsibilities, and relationships	8
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	8
Looking back to move forward: re-examining “alternative” certification as a site for teacher learning	8
STEAM in early childhood education: teachers’ curriculum design thinking and implementation self-efficacy	7
School and social educational vulnerability in Chile: experiences and preparedness of novice teachers of English	7
Examining the relationships among teaching assistants’ self-efficacy, emotional well-being and job satisfaction	7
Understanding factors related to teacher job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of emotional well-being	7
The ‘good’ teacher in an era of professional standards: policy frameworks and lived realities	7
Layering identities as artist, advocate, and theatre educator: reflecting beyond experiences	7
Understanding why Western expatriate teachers choose to work in non-traditional international schools in Vietnam	7
Algorithmic futures: an analysis of teacher professional digital competence frameworks through an algorithm literacy lens	7
Constructions of quality: Australian Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services during COVID-19	7
An audit of commercialisation and outsourcing across the primary school curriculum	6
Teaching bodies: movement-based performing arts as an approach to embodied education in secondary teacher training	6
Gender bias and gender equality beliefs in teaching efficacy profiles of Finnish physical education teachers	6
Educating for uncertainty in what is certainly an uncertain world	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
Changed for the better: positive teacher experiences with COVID-19 driven changes	6
Co-constructed engagement with Australian Aboriginal families in early childhood education	6
Technology Integration as a Spectrum: integrating technology in early childhood classrooms	6
Teacher education as stakeholder: teacher educator perspectives on the integration of computational thinking into mathematics and science courses	6
Teachers’ perceptions of what knowledge they need to foster their multicultural competence: what are the implications for in-service teacher education programmes?	6
COVID-19 influencing preschool practice in Iceland: ‘we now have the opportunity to stop and observe what is happening’	6
Guest editorial: the drive for equity and quality during the pandemic era: considerations and implications for teachers and teaching	5
Dispelling Deficit Framing: Investigating Preservice Teacher Beliefs About the Intersections between Literacy Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	5
Teaching “Home” in the curriculum	5

‘To teach or not to teach?’ An exploration of the career choices of educational professionals	5
Context matters: rethinking graduate teacher readiness for hard-to-staff schools	5
Preparing teachers for diversity: how are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity – the case of Austria and Ireland	5
Wellbeing under threat: Multiply marginalized and underrepresented teachers’ intersecting identities	5
Teachers’ beliefs and practices in culturally diverse schools: an empirical study in Southwest China	5
Performing agriculture education: reflections from women who teach agriculture in Australian secondary schools	5
Expertise and professionalism for inclusive (mathematics) teaching and learning: reflections on findings from interdisciplinary professionalisation research	5
Knowing when to step in: linking teachers’ behavioural responses to workplace dissatisfaction with intent to leave	5
Pathways to professional digital competence to teach for digital citizenship: social science teacher education in flux	5
Teaching within the ‘margins’: capturing the challenges, tensions, and rewards of alternative education	5
Tutors’ relational professionalism and care-based personalisation in Italy: facilitating innovation in a formalist school culture	5
Professional development programmes on playful learning for early childhood teachers: a systematic review	5
An investigation into the dynamicity of pre-service language teachers’ well-being trajectories: a classroom-based study	5
How does newly qualified teachers’ collegial network foster their feedback-seeking behaviour and job satisfaction?	5
Characteristics of social support experienced by differently engaged student teachers	5
Critical thinking from the ground up: teachers’ conceptions and practice in EFL classrooms	5
A systematic review of school-based positive psychology interventions to foster teacher wellbeing	5
The classroom in turmoil: teachers’ perspective on unplanned controversial issues in the classroom	5
The great resignation in teaching: illuminating an ongoing “crisis” in teacher dehumanization	5