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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field	45
‘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	34
Can older teachers better handle crises? Overload feelings and work seepage into the private space during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Teacher development in an evolving online professional learning community: an action research study	25
Headteachers’ and teachers’ perspectives on the work of school improvement support officers in selected basic schools in Ghana	25
Does community matter?: a study on rural chinese teachers’ turnover	24
Exploring teacher–parent relationships in times of Covid-19: teachers’ expectations and parental home-schooling strategies in a Flemish context	22
A psychosocial reading of teacher agency	22
Teacher education and early teaching career	21
Communicating in primary science: exploring the reported language practices of Australian primary teachers	21
Philosophising with children – learning to live with uncertainty as a condition of human life and a challenge for teaching and learning	21
Teachers with religious commitments in religiously affiliated schools: caution and connection	20
Acceptance of gay and lesbian people among Polish teachers: the roles of intergroup contact and belief in LGBT conspiracy ideology	19
Factors affecting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching in primary education	19
‘One doesn’t just move online’: an intersectional analysis of teachers’ response to the crisis of pandemic teaching	18
Keeping students close or afar? Whom, how and what for	18
The phenomenon of uncertainty as an opportunity, challenge and characteristic in the field of physical education: a systematic review	18
Cultivating teacher agency and professional autonomy in higher education through feature films and television series	18
Associations between childhood trauma, perceived resilience, and teacher burnout	17
A critical review of professional ethical codes for teachers in Israel	16
Using instructional leadership to implement the 108 Curriculum Guidelines: a case study at a general senior high school in Taiwan	16
Teaching English to multilingual immigrant students: understanding teachers’ beliefs and practices	15
Blurred discourses of professionalism in teacher education institutions	15
Seeking the cosmopolitan teacher: internationalising curricula in a Canadian preservice teacher education program	15
The conflicted role of uncertainty in teaching and teacher education	14

Culturally responsive teacher education: do we practice what we preach?	14
The teacher as double agent: performative compliance, allegiance and survival in the contemporary classroom	13
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces	12
‘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	12
‘Now it goes to my blood’: Australian early career preschool teachers’ experiences of learning theories of child development at university	12
Critical thinking in the national curriculum and teacher education in South Korea: a missing link	12
Racial microaggressions on the initial teacher education programmes: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention	12
Publisher’s Note	12
Emotional, behavioural, and conceptual dimensions of teacher-parent simulations	11
Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS	11
Explicit teaching of reflective practice (RP) in pre-service teacher education: probing the immediate and long-term influence	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
Teacher collaboration and innovative learning spaces in New Zealand	11
Diagnosing and treating parents: a new perspective on teacher-parent relationships	10
Using found poetry to explore creativity in the professional lives of English teachers	10
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
Looking back to move forward: re-examining “alternative” certification as a site for teacher learning	9
Moving towards preservice teachers’ implementation of universal design for learning: the central role of self-efficacy	9
Agency and professional identity among mobile teachers: how does the experience of teaching abroad shape teachers’ professional identity?	9
What’s an innovation? Capitalising on disruptive innovation in higher education	9
Learning through perplexities in inquiry-based learning settings in teacher education	9
There are still more black boys in the office: educators’ perspectives on racial discipline disparities after restorative justice implementation	9
The ‘good’ teacher in an era of professional standards: policy frameworks and lived realities	8
Teacher collaboration: how conditions of accountability shape teachers’ autonomy, responsibilities, and relationships	8
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education	8
School and social educational vulnerability in Chile: experiences and preparedness of novice teachers of English	8
Examining the relationships among teaching assistants’ self-efficacy, emotional well-being and job satisfaction	8
Understanding why Western expatriate teachers choose to work in non-traditional international schools in Vietnam	8
Editorial note	8
Understanding factors related to teacher job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of emotional well-being	8
Layering identities as artist, advocate, and theatre educator: reflecting beyond experiences	8
STEAM in early childhood education: teachers’ curriculum design thinking and implementation self-efficacy	8
Algorithmic futures: an analysis of teacher professional digital competence frameworks through an algorithm literacy lens	7
Perceived relatedness-support matters most for teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective	7
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	7
Educating for uncertainty in what is certainly an uncertain world	7
An audit of commercialisation and outsourcing across the primary school curriculum	7
Still standing: an ecological perspective on teachers remaining in hard-to-staff schools	7
COVID-19 influencing preschool practice in Iceland: ‘we now have the opportunity to stop and observe what is happening’	7
Gender bias and gender equality beliefs in teaching efficacy profiles of Finnish physical education teachers	7
Changed for the better: positive teacher experiences with COVID-19 driven changes	7
Teacher education as stakeholder: teacher educator perspectives on the integration of computational thinking into mathematics and science courses	7
Teachers’ perceptions of what knowledge they need to foster their multicultural competence: what are the implications for in-service teacher education programmes?	7
Teaching bodies: movement-based performing arts as an approach to embodied education in secondary teacher training	7
Technology Integration as a Spectrum: integrating technology in early childhood classrooms	6
Dispelling Deficit Framing: Investigating Preservice Teacher Beliefs About the Intersections between Literacy Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	6
Preparing teachers for diversity: how are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity – the case of Austria and Ireland	6
Teachers’ beliefs and practices in culturally diverse schools: an empirical study in Southwest China	6

Wellbeing under threat: Multiply marginalized and underrepresented teachers’ intersecting identities	6
Tutors’ relational professionalism and care-based personalisation in Italy: facilitating innovation in a formalist school culture	6
Second-career teachers entering schools: experiences of colleagues	6
Performing agriculture education: reflections from women who teach agriculture in Australian secondary schools	6
Co-constructed engagement with Australian Aboriginal families in early childhood education	6
Professional development programmes on playful learning for early childhood teachers: a systematic review	6
Guest editorial: the drive for equity and quality during the pandemic era: considerations and implications for teachers and teaching	6
An investigation into the dynamicity of pre-service language teachers’ well-being trajectories: a classroom-based study	6
The classroom in turmoil: teachers’ perspective on unplanned controversial issues in the classroom	6
Reconsidering the dual purposes of teacher evaluation	5
‘To teach or not to teach?’ An exploration of the career choices of educational professionals	5
Teaching “Home” in the curriculum	5
Knowing when to step in: linking teachers’ behavioural responses to workplace dissatisfaction with intent to leave	5
Striving to cope: The quest for social justice in initial teacher education in Uruguay	5
Supporting early-career teachers with external mentoring: a scoping review	5
Context matters: rethinking graduate teacher readiness for hard-to-staff schools	5
Characteristics of social support experienced by differently engaged student teachers	5
The great resignation in teaching: illuminating an ongoing “crisis” in teacher dehumanization	5
Expertise and professionalism for inclusive (mathematics) teaching and learning: reflections on findings from interdisciplinary professionalisation research	5
Teachers’ attachment moderates links between students’ internalizing and externalizing problems, teacher-student relationships, and students’ school-related attitudes	5
A systematic review of school-based positive psychology interventions to foster teacher wellbeing	5
Open towards the future. A reinvigoration of practical wisdom in teaching with a view to subjectification	5
Teaching within the ‘margins’: capturing the challenges, tensions, and rewards of alternative education	5
How does newly qualified teachers’ collegial network foster their feedback-seeking behaviour and job satisfaction?	5
Critical thinking from the ground up: teachers’ conceptions and practice in EFL classrooms	5
Profiling teacher educators’ strategies for professional digital competence development	5