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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme34
Teacher professionalism towards transformative education: insights from a literature review30
Teacher professional development through Knotworking: facilitating transformational agency through collaboration to overcome constraints to teaching in relation to disruptive events30
”When we speak faculty listen:” exploring potential spaces for students to support lecturer academic development28
Transprofessional competencies across clinical, organisational, and educational professions: the case of mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL)27
Editorial: professional learning for praxis development27
PLC tools: promoting learning about learning in a teachers’ professional community21
The case of the model classroom: cognition and authenticity in teacher professional development17
Simulaciones computacionales: potencialidades para la investigación y aprendizaje de la improvisación organizacional en la toma de decisiones de liderazgo escolar17
From INSET to professional learning: 50 years of change as seen through the pages of Professional Development in Education17
Creating communicative learning spaces in initial teacher education (ITE) with observation-grounded co-mentoring practices17
Workplace learning of teacher educators: validation of a measurement instrument16
Exploring experienced language teachers’ relay teaching experience in a continuing professional development programme: a case study from China15
Future teachers for future societies: transforming teacher professionalism through problem-based professional learning and development15
Beyond tick boxes: re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education14
Behind the scenes of project management in academia: reflective lessons from a teacher training project12
Professional development in teacher education through international collaboration: when education reform hits Ukraine11
Troubled times and seeds of hope: some reflections on teacher professional learning as praxis development11
Schools that learn to improve student learning: the effectiveness of schools as PLCs11
Professional learning for praxis development: reflections11
Transformative learning for racial justice: enacting radical change through professional development11
A Global Measure of Professional Learning Communities10
Integrating AI in teacher education: exploring the impact on preservice teacher competencies10
Collaboration and control: insights into principals’ role in establishing teacher mentoring in Finnish schools10
Self-initiated online communities of teachers as an expanded meso space10
Learning to see complexity: teachers designing amidst indeterminacy10
The purpose, description and development of teachers’ professional seeing a dialogue between Hattie and Schön10
Guanxi as methodology: a case study of middle leaders’ leadership building in the era of curriculum reform in rural China10
Why does teacher learning vary in professional development? Accounting for organisational conditions10
Teacher professional development (TPD) in Ghana: constraints and solutions9
Disruptive hooks, professional learning, and knowledge artefacts: a conceptual discussion9
Teachers’ positioning and sense of professionalism over the implementation of cultural literacy as a dialogic and argumentative practice9
Global education reform and the Swedish CPD market: restricted professional learning and the power of ideology9
Teacher leadership for professional learning: a case study of a master teacher studio in Zhejiang Province, China9
Challenges and opportunities for early career researchers: using the theory of practice architectures to unpack enabling and constraining conditions9
The role of experiences in the origin and development of theoretical and practical knowledge during teacher training9
Barriers and supports for successful completion of an Emergent Literacy Micro-Credential: an analysis at three levels of the professional learning system9
Professional development for promoting a sense of community in blended learning9
Using professional learning to foster distributed leadership and equity of voice and promote higher quality in Early childhood education9
Impact of a professional development program in formative assessment for mathematics teachers8
Forging the role of the digital technology coach: flexibility, responsiveness, and resourcefulness in supporting teacher professional learning8
Intellectual wellbeing: the pursuit of freedom in the professional learning of teachers8
What makes professional teacher development in universities effective? Lessons from an international systematised review8
Integrating theory, experience and social learning in a professionalisation trajectory aimed at developing primary school teachers’ diversity competences7
Re-imagining transformative professional learning for critical teacher professionalism: a conceptual review7
Teachers of action: when teachers take care of their own professional development7
Teacher collaboration: conceptualisation and practice7
Correction7
Enriching the professional capital of primary school teachers to assess play and learning through play7
Bridging theory and practice: introducing a theoretically informed pedagogical tool for empowering educational leaders in navigating practice architectures7
A novel approach for mapping and fostering teacher agency: a multiple case study in the context of higher education7
How medical practitioners experience development over their careers: implications for professional growth and learning7
A systematic review of reciprocal peer observation in higher education7
Climate justice and teacher professional learning … we owe it to our young people7
Using large language models to promote teachers’ learning: an exploratory professional development programme7
Strengthening inclusive leadership: insights from a professional development programme for school and childcare leaders7
Addressing the challenges of conference participation for the Pacific: a regional approach to maximise attendance and participation7
Teachers’ constitutive motivations for professional learning in England’s context of high-stakes accountability6
Professional development, teacher job satisfaction, and work engagement: a needs–supplies fit approach6
Professional development quality and instructional effectiveness: Testing the mediating role of teacher self-efficacy beliefs6
Reviewing the past and considering the present to inform the future of professional learning6
Circular logic? Analysing the professional standards framework for higher education6
Professional learning communities: the journey from ‘do we HAVE to go there’ to ‘teachers getting together and being colleagues6
Identifying the theoretical foundations of coaching as a form of ongoing professional development in early childhood education: a meta-narrative review6
Factors influencing improvement of vocational teacher education through school-enterprise partnerships6
The art of designing a professional development programme for teachers6
Boundary crossing or boundary space traversal? Investigating the extent to which practitioner inquiry into educational practice is enduring6
The development of EFL pre-service teachers’ critical thinking in teaching practicum: a case study5
Professional identity development in pre-service teachers: the impact of online informal mentoring5
An integrative conceptual framework for analysing professional learning processes in reading groups for teachers (RGfTs)5
Perceptions of problems of practice among Chilean mathematics educators5
Integrating virtual reality as a pedagogical tool into teacher education: experiences from Norwegian preservice teachers5
Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme5
Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review5
Leadership matters: supportive principals and teacher recruitment in a school–university partnership5
‘Pedagogic oppression’: the need for emancipation through contradiction in teacher professional development5
The influencing factors of music teachers’ professional development: a literature review5
A new conceptual framework for understanding and implementing train-the-trainer professional development on a large scale5
Being, becoming and sustaining: learning professional learning in teacher education5
‘Regard me’: a case study of learner engagement and the satisfaction of basic needs in continuing professional development5
Exploring self-directed professional development (SDPD): from hobbyists to acknowledged tango teachers5
Professional relationships and professional learning from a generational perspective5
Training secondary English teachers to engage students in challenging and complex issues with journalistic strategies5
Professional learning of academics enacting work-integrated learning4
Middle leaders dialogic practices: facilitating professional learning for research academics in higher education settings4
Leading professional learning: resonance, reflections, and responsibilities4
The importance of building teachers’ intrinsic control into the design of professional development (PD) programmes4
Critical reflection to develop transformative consciousness of racial differences4
Learning in motion! Design of an evidence-based professional development programme to empower teacher educators to adopt play-based, gender-responsive pedagogies4
Collective learning in pre-service teacher education: exploring challenges, negotiations, and co-constructed solutions towards continuing professional learning and development4
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning4
Pedagogical inertia and asynchronous specificity: a heuristic model of post-covid teaching in higher education4
Speak up or stay silent: how does teachers’ verbal participation in a professional development programme relate to instructional outcomes?4
Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning4
English language teacher professional identity aesthetic depiction: an arts-based study from Afghanistan4
‘The best resource we have is each other’- relational practices of middle leaders as ethos leads in professional Learning Communities4
Improvement of students’ oral communicative competence through a reflective and collaborative teachers’ development programme3
Leading from the middle: the role of communication in implementing education for sustainable development3
Rethinking teachers’ professional learning through unseen observation3
The role of digital technology in facilitating epistemic fluency in professional education3
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
Informal learning through social media: exploring the experiences of teachers in virtual professional communities in Kazakhstan3
Correction3
‘It was a breath of fresh air across the school’: school leaders’ mediation of contested spaces during practitioner inquiry professional learning3
An exploration of the communicative, relational, and dialogic practices of middle leaders for teacher professional learning in four Irish primary schools3
Using colleague coaching to develop teacher data literacy3
Novice middle leaders navigating context: reflections on a situated middle leader development program in Hong Kong3
“I give, and they give back”: teachers’ views on the professional implications of mentoring3
Schools, data and teachers’ learning: insights of an experienced educator3
Understanding professional learning in and for practice3
Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning3
What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children3
The value of third sector organisations’ provision of global learning CPD in English schools3
The perception of affordances; towards an ecological-enactive model of teacher noticing, expertise and development3
Leading transformative professional learning for inclusion across the teacher education continuum: lessons from online and on-site learning communities3
Professional learning and development: sustainability in education3
Action research as professional learning in and through practice3
Post-teaching and professional learning: an investigation on teachers attitudes towards AI3
A pragmatic meta-model to navigate complexity in teachers’ professional Learning3
The role of mentoring programme coordinator: professional development meta-facilitator?3
Teachers’ professional development within art experiences: Pedagogical narratives for hopeful educational futures3
Supporting teachers to lead by learning and learn by leading2
Leading professional learning: how can a journal take a leadership role?2
Providing quality improvement workplace-based professional development to Australian general practice clinical educators: findings from a feasibility study2
Empowering aspiring middle leaders with systems thinking: using causal loop diagrams and change models to foster collaborative professional development2
Health professionals’ knowledge discourses concerning health: a qualitative study in Norway2
“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
Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development2
Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology2
Navigating identity tensions in a research community: a narrative inquiry of a teacher of Romanian2
‘The person and the teaching profession’: personal-professional journeys into teaching for Danish school teachers2
Professional development through motivational interviewing training: Lower secondary school teachers’ views and experiences2
Teacher educators as knowledge brokers: reframing knowledge co-construction with school partners2
The indispensable role of the goal construct in understanding and improving teaching practice2
Integrating generative AI into language teachers’ professional development: a longitudinal study using the synthesis of qualitative data (SQD) model2
‘Being a teacher is different from working as a teacher’: evaluating pre-service primary school teachers’ practicum experiences in a Spanish context2
An ecological analysis of novice EFL teacher professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic2
School-university partnership and teachers’ professional learning communities in China: a five-year case study of a group of schools2
Preservice teachers’ perceptions of teacher competence: the influence of national and global frameworks2
Evaluation of an innovative model for teacher professional development on educational inclusion in the UAE2
Re-imagining teacher mentoring for the future2
The search for evidence-based features of effective teacher professional development: a critical analysis of the literature2
Beyond formal research knowledge and skills: how do teachers grow and evolve as teacher-researchers?2
Leading professional learning to navigate complexity2
Editorial2
Transforming teacher beliefs through professional learning for powerful learning environments2
The journey of teachers’ professional growth through reflective school practices2
Centring Teacher Voices in School-Wide Improvement: Possibilities and Challenges of Introducing Change in Complex Systems2
Contextual influences on the professional development experiences of lecturers in English as a foreign language at a Vietnamese university2
No time to ‘put that in’: can we silence the ticking clock that controls teachers’ professional learning?2
Moving within learning communities as an act of performing professional wellbeing2
Professional learning and development: moving with the times and the human element2
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
Formal and informal professional development during different Covid-19 periods: the role of teachers’ career stages2
Snacks, shoulders, and sleep: factors that influence teachers’ professional development decision-making2
Determinants of teachers’ positive perception on their professional development experience: an application of LASSO-based machine learning approach2
Professional learning in engineering internships: what do supervisors learn from their student supervision practices?2
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