OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Teacher 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From teacher surplus to teacher shortage and its effects on teacher education: the Portuguese case	42
‘I view teaching differently’: identity development of university teachers doing professional doctorates	36
Educating teachers for diversity – a Herculean task?	30
Pushing crisis response towards sustainable transformation? Reflections from a case analysis of crisis-framed policy actions on teacher education in three European settings	30
Providing opportunities and experiences to support student teacher self-efficacy: the case for teaching as inquiry	23
When teaching competes with research for academics’ attention: addressing a key challenge in developing teaching excellence in the European university	23
Who do they think they are? Professional identity of Chinese university-based teacher educators	19
Internationalising teacher education at home: developing empathy through the sense of otherness in language learning	18
Who are university-based teacher educators? Voices from China	17
‘But that is also not quite right’: social justice from the lenses of prospective teachers	16
Research on relevant and diverse issues in teacher education	15
University supervisors’ conversation strategies for triadic supervision in teacher education	14
School practicum experiences at the time of Covid-19: Focusing on the implementation of play practices	14
Supporting teacher agency during a collaborative inquiry-based in-service teacher education course	14
Exploring the impact of an online learning community to support student teachers on school placement	13
Newly qualified teachers as a resource in school in a micropolitical perspective	12
Rethinking teacher education in/for challenging times: reconciling enduring tensions, imagining new possibilities	12
Generic or subject-specific? A survey comparing Dutch secondary school visual art teachers’ early-career experiences to teacher experiences in non-arts subjects	12
Finding the balance between personal and political	11
Investigating the education of preservice teachers for inclusive education: meta-ethnography	11
Teacher educators’ diversity-responsive practices: instrument development for quantitative assessment	11
What does it mean to be(come) a professional bilingual education teacher?	11
‘Reflecting on every move’: the role of video in simulation-based learning for teacher Education	10
Tensions experienced by second-career student teachers at the start of their training programme	10
Unveiling awareness gaps: pre-service teachers and responsible consumption in Spain	10

Teachers’ adaptations to COVID-19: perceived preparedness for distance education, frequency of teacher-student contact, and resources in ICT	10
Navigating transformative assessment and feedback in teacher education: unveiling challenges and innovative practices	10
Becoming and being a TESOL teacher educator: research and practice	10
Assessment conceptions of Finnish pre-service teachers	10
Relationship between science teachers’ teaching motivations and career development aspirations	9
Participants’ perceptions of video-enhanced dialogic assessment as reflective practice in international teacher education	9
How to achieve ‘egalitarian’ interaction between student teachers and mentor teachers? A study of a one-school-year teacher practicum in Germany	9
Exploring the role of online peer observation in the construction process of language teacher online identity	8
Teacher identity as inquirer: voices of teacher educators	8
Fostering student teachers’ agency in distance education: a service-learning approach in computer-supported collaborative learning environments	8
Competencies of music teachers in primary schools in Catalonia: an exploratory study	8
It is our responsibility to teach (the teachers) - and improve education	8
Globalisation and teacher education in the BRICS countries:The positioning of research and practice in comparative perspective	8
Preparing pre-service teachers to embrace research-informed teaching practice: a cross-national study of teacher educators’ capabilities	8
Practicum in teacher education: the role of psychological detachment and supervisors’ feedback and reflection in student teachers’ well-being	8
Motivation and professional development needs of foreign language teacher educators	7
Exploring beliefs among Chinese preschool teachers and their associations with perceived practices and process quality	7
Investigating STEM interest, mathematics beliefs and gender stereotypes among pre-service early childhood educators	7
Job demands and resources as predictors of well-being in portuguese teachers	7
What is the perception of the bullying training provided to pre-service Physical Education teachers?	7
Professional digital competence beliefs of student teachers, pre-service teachers and teachers: Validating an instrument based on the DigCompEdu framework	7
Teachers’ shortage and initial teacher education reforms in Italy: an overview	6
The discursive positioning of teacher education in the Flemish teacher shortages policy debate: praise, blame, tensions, and contradictions	6
Pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward gameful practices – a systematic review	6
International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implicatio	6
Predicting profiles of early-career teachers’ readiness for online teaching in primary and secondary Education	6
Overcoming the theory-practice divide in teacher education with the ‘Partner School Programme’. A conceptual mapping	6
Training pre-service teachers to enhanced digital education	6
Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account	6
(Trans)formation of student teachers’ professional identity through problem-based learning in Korea	6
Effect of a need-supportive training programme on novice teachers’ motivating style and students’ engagement: the role of video-based discussion	6
Co-creating physical education teacher education: An autoethnographic study of collaborative development, teaching, and research with students	5
Why micro-teaching falls short in pre-service teacher education: a conversation analytic comparison of designed and actual troubles in teaching practices	5
Why teacher education matters even more	5
Research on teacher education: mirror and compass	5
Reflective thinking among Finnish pre-service teachers and its relation to metacognitive awareness	5
Examining the difficulties and support during an inquiry-based practicum: pre-service teachers and school mentors’ experiences	5
Mobility of novice teachers	5
Debunking the myth of high achievers in Finnish primary teacher education: first-year preservice teachers’ learning strategies and study success	5
Examining peer group mentoring in teaching practicum and its impact on the process of pre-service teachers’ joint reflection	5
How to keep teachers in a profession in times of budget shortages?	4
Reframing teacher education around inclusion, equity, and social justice: towards an authentically value-centred approach to teacher education in Europe	4
To teach or not to teach? Preferences for working conditions and the alternative career opportunities of pre-service teachers	4
Latent profiles of student teachers’ intra- and interindividual emotion regulation strategies and their links with grit	4
Exploring variations in teacher education	4
Higher education-based teacher educators’ researcherly disposition: An international perspective	4
Student teachers’ reactions to formative teacher and peer feedback	4
The practicum in initial teacher education – enduring challenges, evolving practices and future research directions	4
Career aspirations of the students preparing to work as teachers in Poland, Latvia and Ukraine	4
Career-related concerns and opportunities in the times of COVID-19 pandemic among preservice teachers	4

Implementation models for teacher peer feedback: A systematic review	4
Teachers’ generative AI-facilitated informal learning: A scope review	4
Assessment for Learning: Developing the required teacher competencies	4
Becoming a safe adult for pupils: emotions as part of first-year student teachers’ narrative identities told with photographs	4
The role of knowledge, attitude, and emotions in Spanish pre-service teachers’ willingness to engage in climate change education	4
Devising writing instruction methods for deaf students in a teachers’ Professional Learning Community	4
The longing to just be – a belonging body in teacher education	4
Supporting early career teachers’ self-regulation and goal pursuit through online coaching during a professional development programme	4
The impact of a theory-practice-based professionalisation program on student teachers’ knowledge, motivation, and beliefs	4
Pre-service teachers’ teaching challenges and the transformative learning opportunities during teaching practice in Indonesian remote areas	3
Does the duration of professional development programs influence effects on instruction? An analysis of 174 lessons during a national-scale program	3
Where internationalisation and digitalisation intersect: designing a virtual exchange to enhance student teachers’ professional awareness as European teachers	3
The production of a child in conflict in teacher education – research on available storylines	3
High-quality practicum – according to teacher education students on their practicum at partnership schools	3
The role of provisional beliefs in teacher development: impact of postgraduate study abroad on Japanese transborder teachers	3
Holistic teacher education: emphasising relationships, pedagogies and environments	3
Exploring teacher educators’ challenges in the context of digital transformation and their self-reported TPACK: a mixed methods study	3
Digital social story preparation skills: impact of an online course on special education teacher candidates	3
Project-based learning as signature pedagogy for developing teacher professionalism in teacher education	3
The underlying beliefs in Pirkko’s narrative about implementing collaborative learning in mathematics - ‘my job is to give individual instruction’	3
‘I am struggling to survive’: financial inequity in postgraduate teacher education in England	3
The antecedents of pre-service teachers’ AI literacy: perceptions about own AI driven applications, attitude towards AI and knowledge in machine learning	3
European journal of teacher education	3
Investigating the difficulty level of aspects of teaching during field placement: from coursework to practice	3
Cultivating transnational preservice teachers’ and parents’ creative identity, self-efficacy and critical thinking dispositions through collective participation in creative arts	3
Practicum experience: the role of practicum demands and resources in first and second career preservice teachers	3
Teacher shortage in Croatia – a challenge for educational policy, initial teacher education and educational institutions	3
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment: the important space of authentic assignments	3
Applying artificial intelligence in teacher education: preservice teachers’ attitudes and reflections in using ChatGPT for teaching and learning	3
Reflecting on metaphors and the possibilities of ‘language change’ in teaching and teacher education	3
Exploring the knowledge structure of coping strategies in teacher education research using bibliometric analysis	3
Agency in negotiating partnerships in initial teacher education: shifting sands	3
An online practicum for teacher education students: emergent listening and seeing for quality praxis	3
Pre-service teachers co-constructing narratives about the future of education	3
Promoting socio-emotional learning competencies in teacher education through online clinical simulations	3
Understanding the impact of motivational orientations on preservice teachers’ perceptions of classroom simulation: a mixed-methods study	2
How well does teacher education prepare for teaching with technology? A TPACK-based investigation at a university of education	2
Authentic assessment as a support for student teachers’ reflection	2
Motives for becoming a teacher, coping strategies and teacher efficacy among Swedish student teachers	2
The evolving knowledge base on teacher professionalism: a bibliometric review from 1960 to 2024	2
From ‘sojourning’ to standards: a critical reflection on the evolution of initial teacher education policy in Ireland	2
What’s in it for me: mentors’ perspectives on their role in language teacher education in the Czech context	2
The intricate relationship between person, society and policy in education	2
Teachers’ digital competence for global teacher education	2
Profiles of teachers’ assessment techniques and their students’ involvement in assessment	2
Pre-service teachers’ skills development through educational video generation	2
Teaching with the algorithm: anticipations of AI in teacher education	2
The impact of generative AI tools on language teaching and learning: investigating prospective teachers’ self-directed learning	2
Development of teacher professional identity: perspectives from self-determination theory	2
Narrative self-observation: a new framework for teacher professional development and identity research	2
Enhancing the enactment of assessment for learning principles during school placement: preservice teachers as practitioner researchers within a learning community	2
Examining Teacher Educators’ Roles in Developing Preservice Teachers’ Digital Competence	2
Understanding Teacher Identity: The Complexities of Forming an Identity as Professional Teacher Understanding Teacher Identity: The Complexities of Forming an Identity as Professional T	2
Examining how generative AI tools benefit and challenge teachers’ research-informed practice	2
Supervision of master’s theses in teacher education: Norwegian teacher educators’ views of their role and competence	2
Teacher and student teacher views of agency in feedback	2
The Impact of an In-Service Course on Primary School English Teachers: Case studies of Change	2
Antecedents of Chilean in-service science teachers’ emotions: the important role of teacher motivation towards teaching career and self-efficacy	2
Research on teacher educators’ teacher identities: critical interpretative synthesis and future directions	2
School culture and teaching practices for the effective student- centred learning during emergency remote teaching	2
Will we be capable? Creating and validating the AVACIE scale to evaluate pre-service teachers’ self-competence in assessing cyberbullying	2
Developing a teacher research literacy framework for language teacher education	2
Teacher education: student teachers’ ethics-related experiences from their placements in Uganda	2
A feasible balance? The Italian teachers’ standpoint on assessment literacy, assessment practice, and teacher professional development	2
Reimagining and remaking teacher education: priorities, practices and dilemmas	2