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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme50
Simulaciones computacionales: potencialidades para la investigación y aprendizaje de la improvisación organizacional en la toma de decisiones de liderazgo escolar43
Editorial: professional learning for praxis development41
Transprofessional competencies across clinical, organisational, and educational professions: the case of mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL)38
Teacher professional development through Knotworking: facilitating transformational agency through collaboration to overcome constraints to teaching in relation to disruptive events33
”When we speak faculty listen:” exploring potential spaces for students to support lecturer academic development27
Teacher professionalism towards transformative education: insights from a literature review25
The case of the model classroom: cognition and authenticity in teacher professional development23
Professional development in teacher education through international collaboration: when education reform hits Ukraine23
Workplace learning of teacher educators: validation of a measurement instrument23
Creating communicative learning spaces in initial teacher education (ITE) with observation-grounded co-mentoring practices23
Schools that learn to improve student learning: the effectiveness of schools as PLCs22
Beyond tick boxes: re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education22
From INSET to professional learning: 50 years of change as seen through the pages of Professional Development in Education20
Exploring experienced language teachers’ relay teaching experience in a continuing professional development programme: a case study from China19
Professional learning for praxis development: reflections17
Troubled times and seeds of hope: some reflections on teacher professional learning as praxis development16
Behind the scenes of project management in academia: reflective lessons from a teacher training project16
Future teachers for future societies: transforming teacher professionalism through problem-based professional learning and development15
Transformative learning for racial justice: enacting radical change through professional development15
Teacher professional development (TPD) in Ghana: constraints and solutions14
The purpose, description and development of teachers’ professional seeing a dialogue between Hattie and Schön14
Guanxi as methodology: a case study of middle leaders’ leadership building in the era of curriculum reform in rural China13
Collaboration and control: insights into principals’ role in establishing teacher mentoring in Finnish schools13
Personalisation in teachers’ professional development: comparative analysis of knowledge construction in structured and flexible school-based professional development frameworks13
Integrating AI in teacher education: exploring the impact on preservice teacher competencies12
Global education reform and the Swedish CPD market: restricted professional learning and the power of ideology12
Barriers and supports for successful completion of an Emergent Literacy Micro-Credential: an analysis at three levels of the professional learning system12
Why does teacher learning vary in professional development? Accounting for organisational conditions12
Learning to see complexity: teachers designing amidst indeterminacy12
Disruptive hooks, professional learning, and knowledge artefacts: a conceptual discussion12
Self-initiated online communities of teachers as an expanded meso space12
Enhancing practitioner research in school settings: insights from close-to-practice partnerships12
Professional development for promoting a sense of community in blended learning11
Teachers’ positioning and sense of professionalism over the implementation of cultural literacy as a dialogic and argumentative practice11
Using professional learning to foster distributed leadership and equity of voice and promote higher quality in Early childhood education11
Teacher leadership for professional learning: a case study of a master teacher studio in Zhejiang Province, China11
The role of experiences in the origin and development of theoretical and practical knowledge during teacher training11
Challenges and opportunities for early career researchers: using the theory of practice architectures to unpack enabling and constraining conditions10
Teachers of action: when teachers take care of their own professional development10
What makes professional teacher development in universities effective? Lessons from an international systematised review9
Intellectual wellbeing: the pursuit of freedom in the professional learning of teachers9
A novel approach for mapping and fostering teacher agency: a multiple case study in the context of higher education9
Strengthening inclusive leadership: insights from a professional development programme for school and childcare leaders9
Impact of a professional development program in formative assessment for mathematics teachers9
Australia’s professional education ecosystem for out-of-field teachers: seeking diverse pathways for teacher learning9
Beyond the text: a methodological lens for critical reflection on professional learning policy in context9
Correction9
Bridging theory and practice: introducing a theoretically informed pedagogical tool for empowering educational leaders in navigating practice architectures9
Using large language models to promote teachers’ learning: an exploratory professional development programme9
How medical practitioners experience development over their careers: implications for professional growth and learning9
Professional development, teacher job satisfaction, and work engagement: a needs–supplies fit approach8
Enriching the professional capital of primary school teachers to assess play and learning through play8
Identifying the theoretical foundations of coaching as a form of ongoing professional development in early childhood education: a meta-narrative review8
Factors influencing improvement of vocational teacher education through school-enterprise partnerships8
Addressing the challenges of conference participation for the Pacific: a regional approach to maximise attendance and participation8
Teacher collaboration: conceptualisation and practice8
Circular logic? Analysing the professional standards framework for higher education8
Professional development quality and instructional effectiveness: Testing the mediating role of teacher self-efficacy beliefs8
Re-imagining transformative professional learning for critical teacher professionalism: a conceptual review8
Reviewing the past and considering the present to inform the future of professional learning7
Relational and communicative leadership practices in professional learning: a case study of middle leaders in rural Pakistani high schools7
A systematic review of reciprocal peer observation in higher education7
Integrating theory, experience and social learning in a professionalisation trajectory aimed at developing primary school teachers’ diversity competences7
Professional learning communities: the journey from ‘do we HAVE to go there’ to ‘teachers getting together and being colleagues7
Teachers’ constitutive motivations for professional learning in England’s context of high-stakes accountability7
Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme6
Training secondary English teachers to engage students in challenging and complex issues with journalistic strategies6
The development of EFL pre-service teachers’ critical thinking in teaching practicum: a case study6
Professional relationships and professional learning from a generational perspective6
Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review6
Being, becoming and sustaining: learning professional learning in teacher education6
A new conceptual framework for understanding and implementing train-the-trainer professional development on a large scale6
Integrating virtual reality as a pedagogical tool into teacher education: experiences from Norwegian preservice teachers6
Boundary crossing or boundary space traversal? Investigating the extent to which practitioner inquiry into educational practice is enduring6
The influencing factors of music teachers’ professional development: a literature review6
Professional identity development in pre-service teachers: the impact of online informal mentoring6
Learning in motion! Design of an evidence-based professional development programme to empower teacher educators to adopt play-based, gender-responsive pedagogies5
Exploring self-directed professional development (SDPD): from hobbyists to acknowledged tango teachers5
Critical reflection to develop transformative consciousness of racial differences5
‘Pedagogic oppression’: the need for emancipation through contradiction in teacher professional development5
Community-centric learning through practitioner inquiry5
‘The best resource we have is each other’- relational practices of middle leaders as ethos leads in professional Learning Communities5
Leadership matters: supportive principals and teacher recruitment in a school–university partnership5
Professional learning of academics enacting work-integrated learning5
The importance of building teachers’ intrinsic control into the design of professional development (PD) programmes5
An integrative conceptual framework for analysing professional learning processes in reading groups for teachers (RGfTs)5
Professional learning communities in EFL teacher development: a systematic review of impacts and challenges5
Leading professional learning: resonance, reflections, and responsibilities5
Exploring upper elementary teachers’ perceptions and practices of AI integration through a TPACK lens: a professional development case study5
When online teacher colleagues meet in person: social-emotional connections and learning at a non-traditional professional convening5
Professional development and rural science teachers’ expanding social networks: a longitudinal analysis5
Perceptions of problems of practice among Chilean mathematics educators5
An exploration of the communicative, relational, and dialogic practices of middle leaders for teacher professional learning in four Irish primary schools4
Leading from the middle: the role of communication in implementing education for sustainable development4
Rethinking teachers’ professional learning through unseen observation4
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning4
What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children4
Leading transformative professional learning for inclusion across the teacher education continuum: lessons from online and on-site learning communities4
Improvement of students’ oral communicative competence through a reflective and collaborative teachers’ development programme4
“I give, and they give back”: teachers’ views on the professional implications of mentoring4
Out-of-field early childhood teachers’ perceived identity and capacity: a three-year long professional development experience4
Pedagogical inertia and asynchronous specificity: a heuristic model of post-covid teaching in higher education4
The perception of affordances; towards an ecological-enactive model of teacher noticing, expertise and development4
Middle leaders dialogic practices: facilitating professional learning for research academics in higher education settings4
Correction4
Informal learning through social media: exploring the experiences of teachers in virtual professional communities in Kazakhstan4
Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning4
Professional learning and development: sustainability in education4
Collective learning in pre-service teacher education: exploring challenges, negotiations, and co-constructed solutions towards continuing professional learning and development4
Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning4
Speak up or stay silent: how does teachers’ verbal participation in a professional development programme relate to instructional outcomes?4
The leadership paradox: navigating leadership dilemmas at different levels in professional learning communities4
Creating the alchemy of teachers’ social, intellectual and professional capital4
Teachers’ professional development within art experiences: Pedagogical narratives for hopeful educational futures4
Novice middle leaders navigating context: reflections on a situated middle leader development program in Hong Kong4
Action research as professional learning in and through practice4
The role of digital technology in facilitating epistemic fluency in professional education3
The role of mentoring programme coordinator: professional development meta-facilitator?3
Schools, data and teachers’ learning: insights of an experienced educator3
Winds of change? Understandings about capacity-building among actors in the public education system in Chile3
The indispensable role of the goal construct in understanding and improving teaching practice3
The journey of teachers’ professional growth through reflective school practices3
Editorial3
Professional development through motivational interviewing training: Lower secondary school teachers’ views and experiences3
A pragmatic meta-model to navigate complexity in teachers’ professional Learning3
Teacher leaders’ coaching skills to support teachers noticing argumentation in the mathematics classroom3
Integrating generative AI into language teachers’ professional development: a longitudinal study using the synthesis of qualitative data (SQD) model3
Understanding professional learning in and for practice3
When policy pressures practice: unpacking LETRS as a mandated professional development3
From self-reflection to professional transformation: an autoethnographic intervention in teacher education3
A scoping review of design thinking in school-based teacher professional learning and development3
‘Being a teacher is different from working as a teacher’: evaluating pre-service primary school teachers’ practicum experiences in a Spanish context3
Teacher leadership for teaching improvement in professional learning communities3
Transforming teacher beliefs through professional learning for powerful learning environments3
Post-teaching and professional learning: an investigation on teachers attitudes towards AI3
Centring Teacher Voices in School-Wide Improvement: Possibilities and Challenges of Introducing Change in Complex Systems3
Teacher educators as knowledge brokers: reframing knowledge co-construction with school partners3
Re-imagining teacher mentoring for the future3
Determinants of teachers’ positive perception on their professional development experience: an application of LASSO-based machine learning approach3
The fragility, complexity and interdependence of the global ecosystem of teacher professional learning2
Designing transformational professional learning opportunities: understanding participants’ experiences in an on-line and in-place imagination-focused self-study2
Moving within learning communities as an act of performing professional wellbeing2
An ecological analysis of novice EFL teacher professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Leading professional learning to navigate complexity2
Navigating identity tensions in a research community: a narrative inquiry of a teacher of Romanian2
Beyond formal research knowledge and skills: how do teachers grow and evolve as teacher-researchers?2
Snacks, shoulders, and sleep: factors that influence teachers’ professional development decision-making2
Formal and informal professional development during different Covid-19 periods: the role of teachers’ career stages2
The search for evidence-based features of effective teacher professional development: a critical analysis of the literature2
Health professionals’ knowledge discourses concerning health: a qualitative study in Norway2
Evaluation of an innovative model for teacher professional development on educational inclusion in the UAE2
“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
Contextual influences on the professional development experiences of lecturers in English as a foreign language at a Vietnamese university2
Providing quality improvement workplace-based professional development to Australian general practice clinical educators: findings from a feasibility study2
Preservice teachers’ perceptions of teacher competence: the influence of national and global frameworks2
Professional learning in engineering internships: what do supervisors learn from their student supervision practices?2
Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development2
Reimagining professional development for school leaders in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia: an examination of current approaches and future directions2
Identity grafting: Pedagogical identities underpinning teaching practices across five Chinese cities2
Mentoring in practicum: supporting student teachers’ learning to notice with collaborative observational tools2
School-university partnership and teachers’ professional learning communities in China: a five-year case study of a group of schools2
Fast-tracking within formal sport coach education: the perspectives of British orienteering coaches and coach developers2
Empowering aspiring middle leaders with systems thinking: using causal loop diagrams and change models to foster collaborative professional development2
Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology2
‘The person and the teaching profession’: personal-professional journeys into teaching for Danish school teachers2
Supporting the development of teachers as expert learners: lessons on professional learning from large scale pedagogical innovations in Mexico and Colombia2
Professional learning and development: moving with the times and the human element2
Professional learning in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a Networked Learning System?2
No time to ‘put that in’: can we silence the ticking clock that controls teachers’ professional learning?2
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