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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field	33
‘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	31
Are you positive that you’re positive?: The downside to maintaining positivity as a first-year teacher	23
Can older teachers better handle crises? Overload feelings and work seepage into the private space during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Exploring teacher–parent relationships in times of Covid-19: teachers’ expectations and parental home-schooling strategies in a Flemish context	18
Does community matter?: a study on rural chinese teachers’ turnover	18
Teachers with religious commitments in religiously affiliated schools: caution and connection	18
Teacher development in an evolving online professional learning community: an action research study	18
Acceptance of gay and lesbian people among Polish teachers: the roles of intergroup contact and belief in LGBT conspiracy ideology	17
Communicating in primary science: exploring the reported language practices of Australian primary teachers	17
‘One doesn’t just move online’: an intersectional analysis of teachers’ response to the crisis of pandemic teaching	17
The phenomenon of uncertainty as an opportunity, challenge and characteristic in the field of physical education: a systematic review	16
Teacher education and early teaching career	16
Factors affecting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching in primary education	16
A psychosocial reading of teacher agency	16
Philosophising with children – learning to live with uncertainty as a condition of human life and a challenge for teaching and learning	16
Teaching English to multilingual immigrant students: understanding teachers’ beliefs and practices	15
Keeping students close or afar? Whom, how and what for	15
Seeking the cosmopolitan teacher: internationalising curricula in a Canadian preservice teacher education program	15
‘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
Associations between childhood trauma, perceived resilience, and teacher burnout	13
Blurred discourses of professionalism in teacher education institutions	13
Culturally responsive teacher education: do we practice what we preach?	13
The teacher as double agent: performative compliance, allegiance and survival in the contemporary classroom	13
The conflicted role of uncertainty in teaching and teacher education	12

Critical thinking in the national curriculum and teacher education in South Korea: a missing link	12
Publisher’s Note	12
Emotional, behavioural, and conceptual dimensions of teacher-parent simulations	11
Racial microaggressions on the initial teacher education programmes: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention	11
Development of resilience among Chinese rural teachers: a social ecological perspective	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
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces	11
Teacher collaboration and innovative learning spaces in New Zealand	10
Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS	10
Explicit teaching of reflective practice (RP) in pre-service teacher education: probing the immediate and long-term influence	10
There are still more black boys in the office: educators’ perspectives on racial discipline disparities after restorative justice implementation	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
Access to mathematics learning for lower secondary students in England during school closures: implications for equity and quality	9
Using found poetry to explore creativity in the professional lives of English teachers	9
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education	8
What’s an innovation? Capitalising on disruptive innovation in higher education	8
Agency and professional identity among mobile teachers: how does the experience of teaching abroad shape teachers’ professional identity?	8
Looking back to move forward: re-examining “alternative” certification as a site for teacher learning	8
Editorial note	7
STEAM in early childhood education: teachers’ curriculum design thinking and implementation self-efficacy	7
Moving towards preservice teachers’ implementation of universal design for learning: the central role of self-efficacy	7
Constructions of quality: Australian Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services during COVID-19	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
The ‘good’ teacher in an era of professional standards: policy frameworks and lived realities	6
Examining the relationships among teaching assistants’ self-efficacy, emotional well-being and job satisfaction	6
Gender bias and gender equality beliefs in teaching efficacy profiles of Finnish physical education teachers	6
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	6
School and social educational vulnerability in Chile: experiences and preparedness of novice teachers of English	6
Teaching bodies: movement-based performing arts as an approach to embodied education in secondary teacher training	6
Teacher education as stakeholder: teacher educator perspectives on the integration of computational thinking into mathematics and science courses	6
Understanding factors related to teacher job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of emotional well-being	6
Teacher collaboration: how conditions of accountability shape teachers’ autonomy, responsibilities, and relationships	6
Still standing: an ecological perspective on teachers remaining in hard-to-staff schools	6
Teachers’ perceptions of what knowledge they need to foster their multicultural competence: what are the implications for in-service teacher education programmes?	6
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
Changed for the better: positive teacher experiences with COVID-19 driven changes	5
Technology Integration as a Spectrum: integrating technology in early childhood classrooms	5
Algorithmic futures: an analysis of teacher professional digital competence frameworks through an algorithm literacy lens	5
Dispelling Deficit Framing: Investigating Preservice Teacher Beliefs About the Intersections between Literacy Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	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
Educating for uncertainty in what is certainly an uncertain world	5
Perceived relatedness-support matters most for teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective	5
Co-constructed engagement with Australian Aboriginal families in early childhood education	5
Guest editorial: the drive for equity and quality during the pandemic era: considerations and implications for teachers and teaching	5
Educational research, epistemology and the desideratum of doubt. Unpacking the complexities of the marshy divide	5

Preparing teachers for diversity: how are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity – the case of Austria and Ireland	5
‘To teach or not to teach?’ An exploration of the career choices of educational professionals	5
COVID-19 influencing preschool practice in Iceland: ‘we now have the opportunity to stop and observe what is happening’	5
An audit of commercialisation and outsourcing across the primary school curriculum	5
The classroom in turmoil: teachers’ perspective on unplanned controversial issues in the classroom	5
Wellbeing under threat: Multiply marginalized and underrepresented teachers’ intersecting identities	5
Tutors’ relational professionalism and care-based personalisation in Italy: facilitating innovation in a formalist school culture	5
Teaching within the ‘margins’: capturing the challenges, tensions, and rewards of alternative education	5