Professional Development in Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Professional Development in Education is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme50
Simulaciones computacionales: potencialidades para la investigación y aprendizaje de la improvisación organizacional en la toma de decisiones de liderazgo escolar41
Editorial: professional learning for praxis development40
Transprofessional competencies across clinical, organisational, and educational professions: the case of mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL)37
Teacher professionalism towards transformative education: insights from a literature review33
Teacher professional development through Knotworking: facilitating transformational agency through collaboration to overcome constraints to teaching in relation to disruptive events27
PLC tools: promoting learning about learning in a teachers’ professional community25
Creating communicative learning spaces in initial teacher education (ITE) with observation-grounded co-mentoring practices23
”When we speak faculty listen:” exploring potential spaces for students to support lecturer academic development23
Future teachers for future societies: transforming teacher professionalism through problem-based professional learning and development23
Professional development in teacher education through international collaboration: when education reform hits Ukraine21
From INSET to professional learning: 50 years of change as seen through the pages of Professional Development in Education20
The case of the model classroom: cognition and authenticity in teacher professional development20
Workplace learning of teacher educators: validation of a measurement instrument20
Exploring experienced language teachers’ relay teaching experience in a continuing professional development programme: a case study from China18
Behind the scenes of project management in academia: reflective lessons from a teacher training project17
Professional learning for praxis development: reflections16
Troubled times and seeds of hope: some reflections on teacher professional learning as praxis development16
Schools that learn to improve student learning: the effectiveness of schools as PLCs14
Transformative learning for racial justice: enacting radical change through professional development13
Beyond tick boxes: re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education13
The purpose, description and development of teachers’ professional seeing a dialogue between Hattie and Schön13
Barriers and supports for successful completion of an Emergent Literacy Micro-Credential: an analysis at three levels of the professional learning system12
Enhancing practitioner research in school settings: insights from close-to-practice partnerships12
Integrating AI in teacher education: exploring the impact on preservice teacher competencies12
Collaboration and control: insights into principals’ role in establishing teacher mentoring in Finnish schools12
Guanxi as methodology: a case study of middle leaders’ leadership building in the era of curriculum reform in rural China12
Global education reform and the Swedish CPD market: restricted professional learning and the power of ideology12
Personalisation in teachers’ professional development: comparative analysis of knowledge construction in structured and flexible school-based professional development frameworks12
Learning to see complexity: teachers designing amidst indeterminacy11
Teacher professional development (TPD) in Ghana: constraints and solutions11
Disruptive hooks, professional learning, and knowledge artefacts: a conceptual discussion11
Why does teacher learning vary in professional development? Accounting for organisational conditions11
Teachers’ positioning and sense of professionalism over the implementation of cultural literacy as a dialogic and argumentative practice11
Self-initiated online communities of teachers as an expanded meso space11
Using professional learning to foster distributed leadership and equity of voice and promote higher quality in Early childhood education11
The role of experiences in the origin and development of theoretical and practical knowledge during teacher training10
Teacher leadership for professional learning: a case study of a master teacher studio in Zhejiang Province, China10
Challenges and opportunities for early career researchers: using the theory of practice architectures to unpack enabling and constraining conditions10
Professional development for promoting a sense of community in blended learning10
Using large language models to promote teachers’ learning: an exploratory professional development programme9
What makes professional teacher development in universities effective? Lessons from an international systematised review9
Beyond the text: a methodological lens for critical reflection on professional learning policy in context9
Correction9
Impact of a professional development program in formative assessment for mathematics teachers9
Teachers of action: when teachers take care of their own professional development9
Teacher collaboration: conceptualisation and practice9
Intellectual wellbeing: the pursuit of freedom in the professional learning of teachers9
Bridging theory and practice: introducing a theoretically informed pedagogical tool for empowering educational leaders in navigating practice architectures9
A novel approach for mapping and fostering teacher agency: a multiple case study in the context of higher education9
Strengthening inclusive leadership: insights from a professional development programme for school and childcare leaders9
Identifying the theoretical foundations of coaching as a form of ongoing professional development in early childhood education: a meta-narrative review8
Professional development, teacher job satisfaction, and work engagement: a needs–supplies fit approach8
Re-imagining transformative professional learning for critical teacher professionalism: a conceptual review8
A systematic review of reciprocal peer observation in higher education8
Factors influencing improvement of vocational teacher education through school-enterprise partnerships8
How medical practitioners experience development over their careers: implications for professional growth and learning8
Relational and communicative leadership practices in professional learning: a case study of middle leaders in rural Pakistani high schools8
Circular logic? Analysing the professional standards framework for higher education8
Addressing the challenges of conference participation for the Pacific: a regional approach to maximise attendance and participation7
Integrating theory, experience and social learning in a professionalisation trajectory aimed at developing primary school teachers’ diversity competences7
Enriching the professional capital of primary school teachers to assess play and learning through play7
Teachers’ constitutive motivations for professional learning in England’s context of high-stakes accountability7
Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme7
Professional development quality and instructional effectiveness: Testing the mediating role of teacher self-efficacy beliefs7
Reviewing the past and considering the present to inform the future of professional learning7
Professional learning communities: the journey from ‘do we HAVE to go there’ to ‘teachers getting together and being colleagues7
Integrating virtual reality as a pedagogical tool into teacher education: experiences from Norwegian preservice teachers6
The development of EFL pre-service teachers’ critical thinking in teaching practicum: a case study6
Boundary crossing or boundary space traversal? Investigating the extent to which practitioner inquiry into educational practice is enduring6
Training secondary English teachers to engage students in challenging and complex issues with journalistic strategies6
Professional identity development in pre-service teachers: the impact of online informal mentoring6
Being, becoming and sustaining: learning professional learning in teacher education6
A new conceptual framework for understanding and implementing train-the-trainer professional development on a large scale6
Leadership matters: supportive principals and teacher recruitment in a school–university partnership6
Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review6
The influencing factors of music teachers’ professional development: a literature review6
Exploring upper elementary teachers’ perceptions and practices of AI integration through a TPACK lens: a professional development case study5
Professional learning communities in EFL teacher development: a systematic review of impacts and challenges5
When online teacher colleagues meet in person: social-emotional connections and learning at a non-traditional professional convening5
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning5
Perceptions of problems of practice among Chilean mathematics educators5
Community-centric learning through practitioner inquiry5
Professional learning of academics enacting work-integrated learning5
Learning in motion! Design of an evidence-based professional development programme to empower teacher educators to adopt play-based, gender-responsive pedagogies5
Critical reflection to develop transformative consciousness of racial differences5
‘The best resource we have is each other’- relational practices of middle leaders as ethos leads in professional Learning Communities5
Exploring self-directed professional development (SDPD): from hobbyists to acknowledged tango teachers5
Leading professional learning: resonance, reflections, and responsibilities5
An integrative conceptual framework for analysing professional learning processes in reading groups for teachers (RGfTs)5
Professional development and rural science teachers’ expanding social networks: a longitudinal analysis5
The importance of building teachers’ intrinsic control into the design of professional development (PD) programmes5
Professional relationships and professional learning from a generational perspective5
‘Pedagogic oppression’: the need for emancipation through contradiction in teacher professional development5
English language teacher professional identity aesthetic depiction: an arts-based study from Afghanistan4
Leading from the middle: the role of communication in implementing education for sustainable development4
Rethinking teachers’ professional learning through unseen observation4
Out-of-field early childhood teachers’ perceived identity and capacity: a three-year long professional development experience4
What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children4
The leadership paradox: navigating leadership dilemmas at different levels in professional learning communities4
Teachers’ professional development within art experiences: Pedagogical narratives for hopeful educational futures4
Novice middle leaders navigating context: reflections on a situated middle leader development program in Hong Kong4
Action research as professional learning in and through practice4
Using colleague coaching to develop teacher data literacy4
Pedagogical inertia and asynchronous specificity: a heuristic model of post-covid teaching in higher education4
The perception of affordances; towards an ecological-enactive model of teacher noticing, expertise and development4
Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning4
Creating the alchemy of teachers’ social, intellectual and professional capital4
Leading transformative professional learning for inclusion across the teacher education continuum: lessons from online and on-site learning communities4
Improvement of students’ oral communicative competence through a reflective and collaborative teachers’ development programme4
“I give, and they give back”: teachers’ views on the professional implications of mentoring4
An exploration of the communicative, relational, and dialogic practices of middle leaders for teacher professional learning in four Irish primary schools4
Collective learning in pre-service teacher education: exploring challenges, negotiations, and co-constructed solutions towards continuing professional learning and development4
Speak up or stay silent: how does teachers’ verbal participation in a professional development programme relate to instructional outcomes?4
Middle leaders dialogic practices: facilitating professional learning for research academics in higher education settings4
Correction4
Informal learning through social media: exploring the experiences of teachers in virtual professional communities in Kazakhstan4
Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning4
Professional learning and development: sustainability in education4
Understanding professional learning in and for practice3
Transforming teacher beliefs through professional learning for powerful learning environments3
The role of digital technology in facilitating epistemic fluency in professional education3
Post-teaching and professional learning: an investigation on teachers attitudes towards AI3
Supporting teachers to lead by learning and learn by leading3
When policy pressures practice: unpacking LETRS as a mandated professional development3
From self-reflection to professional transformation: an autoethnographic intervention in teacher education3
The journey of teachers’ professional growth through reflective school practices3
Integrating generative AI into language teachers’ professional development: a longitudinal study using the synthesis of qualitative data (SQD) model3
Winds of change? Understandings about capacity-building among actors in the public education system in Chile3
Teacher leadership for teaching improvement in professional learning communities3
The role of mentoring programme coordinator: professional development meta-facilitator?3
‘Being a teacher is different from working as a teacher’: evaluating pre-service primary school teachers’ practicum experiences in a Spanish context3
Teacher educators as knowledge brokers: reframing knowledge co-construction with school partners3
Editorial3
Determinants of teachers’ positive perception on their professional development experience: an application of LASSO-based machine learning approach3
Centring Teacher Voices in School-Wide Improvement: Possibilities and Challenges of Introducing Change in Complex Systems3
Teacher leaders’ coaching skills to support teachers noticing argumentation in the mathematics classroom3
A pragmatic meta-model to navigate complexity in teachers’ professional Learning3
Schools, data and teachers’ learning: insights of an experienced educator3
The indispensable role of the goal construct in understanding and improving teaching practice3
Re-imagining teacher mentoring for the future3
Professional learning in engineering internships: what do supervisors learn from their student supervision practices?3
Fast-tracking within formal sport coach education: the perspectives of British orienteering coaches and coach developers2
Identity grafting: Pedagogical identities underpinning teaching practices across five Chinese cities2
The search for evidence-based features of effective teacher professional development: a critical analysis of the literature2
Preservice teachers’ perceptions of teacher competence: the influence of national and global frameworks2
Snacks, shoulders, and sleep: factors that influence teachers’ professional development decision-making2
Professional development through motivational interviewing training: Lower secondary school teachers’ views and experiences2
Professional learning and development: moving with the times and the human element2
Professional learning in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a Networked Learning System?2
The fragility, complexity and interdependence of the global ecosystem of teacher professional learning2
Designing transformational professional learning opportunities: understanding participants’ experiences in an on-line and in-place imagination-focused self-study2
Evaluation of an innovative model for teacher professional development on educational inclusion in the UAE2
Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology2
Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development2
Supporting the development of teachers as expert learners: lessons on professional learning from large scale pedagogical innovations in Mexico and Colombia2
A scoping review of design thinking in school-based teacher professional learning and development2
Beyond formal research knowledge and skills: how do teachers grow and evolve as teacher-researchers?2
Providing quality improvement workplace-based professional development to Australian general practice clinical educators: findings from a feasibility study2
Contextual influences on the professional development experiences of lecturers in English as a foreign language at a Vietnamese university2
Empowering aspiring middle leaders with systems thinking: using causal loop diagrams and change models to foster collaborative professional development2
School-university partnership and teachers’ professional learning communities in China: a five-year case study of a group of schools2
“An incentive for innovation”: the impact of being a subject-specific secondary ITE mentor within an HEI partnership on the professional learning of teacher mentors2
Moving within learning communities as an act of performing professional wellbeing2
Formal and informal professional development during different Covid-19 periods: the role of teachers’ career stages2
Leading professional learning to navigate complexity2
‘The person and the teaching profession’: personal-professional journeys into teaching for Danish school teachers2
Navigating identity tensions in a research community: a narrative inquiry of a teacher of Romanian2
An ecological analysis of novice EFL teacher professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Health professionals’ knowledge discourses concerning health: a qualitative study in Norway2
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