OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education is 1. 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
“Calling all responsible, aware teachers!” engaging teachers in transformative learning about gender and sexuality diversity in a master of education program	21
Ethics and educational technology: reflection, interrogation, and design as a framework for practice	20
Leadership in music technology education: philosophy, praxis, and pedagogy	15
Stakeholder perceptions and experiences of preservice teachers’ professional readiness: some implications for initial teacher education	15
Balancing teacher educators’ researcherly and pedagogical dispositions – an example from Norway	14
Teachers at the speed of light: alternative pathways into teaching and implications for social justice	12
Challenges to the field of teacher education research	10
Linguistic landscapes in language and teacher education: multilingual teaching and learning inside and beyond the classroom	10
Ignoring reality? Doubling education’s exigencies	10
Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia	10
How ‘academic’ should academic writing be? Or: why form should follow function	9
“You fight your battles and you work out how you’re going to change”: the implementation, embedding and limits of restorative practices in an Australian rural community school	8
The contribution of research units to research culture in Israeli teacher education colleges from unit members’ perspective	8
Preparing to be future early childhood teachers: undergraduate students’ perceptions of their identity	8
Teacher educators as public intellectuals: exploring possibilities	7
Sustainable development goals in initial teacher education: a systems-based model from Aotearoa New Zealand	7
Voices from the developing nations of Asia and the Pacific: deliberations on the problematisations by the editors about the Global South	6
Editors’ welcome: College of Reviewers 2025	6
The role of teacher educator virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) in mobilising policy engagement: A case study of the initial teacher training market review from England	6
Challenging teacher education: a series of invited papers for the asia-pacific journal of teacher education	6
Fluctuations in the professionality and professionalism of the teaching profession in Japan: a perspective against the “learnification” of teacher education	6
Constructing teacher identities: how the print media define and represent teachers and their work	5
Why choose to become a teacher in China? A large-sample study using the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice scale	5
The ripple effect: epistemic and professional justice in Indigenous education	5
Challenging teacher education: a series of invited papers for the Asia-Pacific journal of teacher education	5

Preservice teachers’ experiences of relationality in asynchronous online learning. “There’s not really an opportunity to have those networks”	4
Obstacles to foreign language teacher educators’ research development: a phenomenological study from China	4
Empowering mathematics teachers to meet evolving educational goals: the role of “epistemic objects” in developing actionable practice knowledge in tumultuous times	4
Controversial issues in the Australian educational context: dimension of politics, policy and practice	4
The impossibility of keeping history in the past: working beyond cognitive science to locate historical significance in the stolen generations	4
Formative performance assessment in preservice teacher education – working through the black boxes	4
An examination of the interaction between discourses in a post-lesson mentoring conversation on professional experience	4
Teacher educators’ knowledge about diversity: what enables and constrains their teaching decisions?	4
Defining work-integrated learning in initial teacher education	4
Working towards LGBTIQ-inclusive education: perceptions of pre-service teachers’ comfort and emotional experience	4
Can Personal Learning Pathways (PLPs) truly improve Indigenous education outcomes?	4
Handbook of CALL teacher education and professional development: voices from under-represented contexts	4
Evaluating intercultural learning materials from the RICH-Ed project through a non-essentialist perspective: Chinese University students’ and instructors’ perceptions	4
Using boundary objects to enhance learning in history and develop students’ numeracy capabilities	3
Ready, or not? Graduate teachers’ perceptions of their classroom readiness through a capstone assessment task	3
Exploring pre-service teachers’ affective-reflective skills: the effect of variations of a novel self-evaluation protocol	3
Amplify as a discourse and what it might mean for teacher education research	3
Téchne and the art of teaching: perspectives of a practical form of knowledge for teacher education	3
Curriculum materials and educative opportunities: observing teacher positionings from teachers’ guides	3
Thinking about what has been ‘missing’ in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (APJTE) and perhaps the field more generally	3
Schools, religion, and affect: unpacking Australian educator discomfort	3
Second language teacher professional development: Technological innovations for post-emergency teacher education	3
Submitting a book review to the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education	3
What do you do with a problem? A teacher educator’s radical autoethnographic response to the TEEP report	3
A scoping review of classroom readiness: what is it? Can it (and should it) be assessed?	3
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Call for editor	3
Professionalism and everyday practices in early childhood education and care: Singaporean pre-service teachers’ perspectives	3
Partnership or prescription: a critical discourse analysis of HEI-school partnership policy in the Republic of Ireland	3
South Korean education and learning excellence as a Hallyu: Ethnographic understandings of a nation’s academic success	3
What has been “missing” or “missed” over the last 50 years in APJTE?	2
International service-learning: possibilities for developing intercultural competence and culturally responsive pedagogies	2
Martial law and the origins of neoliberal education in the Philippines	2
Interview with Ken Zeichner: Current challenges and future possibilities for teacher education	2
Teacher education and the borderlands of coloniality: reflections from a case in the Global South	2
Insights into an Australian practice-oriented teaching performance assessment for prospective teachers: benefits and complexities	2
Teaching and learning of indigenous languages in the Pacific: are we doing enough in teacher education?	2
Teaching, teachers, and teaching resources in mathematics education research	2
Teaching, education, and the politics of English	2
Who educates the teacher educator? On research, practice, and politics	2
Transforming teacher education or transforming the school: a dangerous dilemma?	2
Enacting the signature pedagogies of arts education in the online learning environment for primary teacher education	2
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of APJTE: a reflection on the past, present and future	2
Addressing teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools	2
A summary of initiatives to address teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools in the Anglosphere	2
Profiling the status of out-of-field teaching in Western Australia: graduate teacher and principal perspectives	2
Immigrant teachers’ experience of professional vulnerability	2
Using collaborative action research to promote critical thinking pedagogies in ELT in Indonesia	2
Reading the word and the world: enacting a critical intercultural pedagogy in EFL teacher preparation through challenging global youth literature	2
An autoethnography of a novice teacher’s experience in teaching Values Education in the Philippines	2
The arts in early childhood teacher education in China: a question of curriculum balance	2

The professional development of rural teachers in China based on their relationship with “left-behind” children	2
A study of teacher quality in Bhutan: issues and challenges for initial teacher education and continuing professional development	2
Finnish early childhood education – building a strong foundation for the future	2
Truth-telling about (Teacher) education as settler-colonial project: ‘The past is always with us’	2
Untangling the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers through neoliberal, Confucian, and affective technologies: with and beyond Foucault	2
Long-term transformative learning from short-term outbound mobility programs and the connection to government’s soft power initiatives	2
Why teacher education? Why not education? The eternal, and infernal, project to form the teacher subject	1
Teacher education as a scene of (dis)repair: a critique of therapeutic practices	1
Chinese Language and Culture Education: Representation, Imagination, and Ideology of China in Australian Schools	1
School can’t? Thinking about refusal in education	1
Handling national controversy on the education frontline: perceptions of Hong Kong teachers on the pedagogies for National Education	1
How to say in English what you cannot say in English? Dilemmas of ‘global’ scholarship and small steps forward	1
Preschool educators’ use of commanding language in China and Japan: a cross-cultural comparative study	1
Investing in and divesting from learning-to-teach practices: a critical ethnography of a teacher of English in China	1
Challenging teacher education: a series of invited papers for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education	1
Engaging with ‘China’: a dialogue among APJTE editors	1
Reconciling the evolving conceptualisations of language teacher cognition from an activity theory perspective	1
English language teacher education and linguistic shame and shaming in non-Anglophone settings: the case of Sri Lanka	1
Shifting from distributive to recognitional social justice for rural educators through professional development	1
Teacher professional learning and development: linear discourses and complexities of teacher learning	1
Pre-service teachers’ experiences of a core Bachelor of Education (primary) unit: Teaching and learning about relationships and sex education for and about sex, gender and sexual diversity	1
Taking “Asia Pacific” seriously: some uncomfortable questions about editing APJTE	1
Disrupting discourses and reclaiming public teacher education: A provocation	1
Teacher recruitment policies: accelerating issues of spatial justice in England	1
Challenging teacher education: a series of invited papers for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education	1
Critical review of research on teacher knowledge building: towards a conceptual framework	1
Twenty years’ empirical research on teacher resilience: a bibliometric analysis	1
Implementing English Medium Instruction (EMI) policy: STEM content teachers’ emotion labour in Kazakhstan	1