Illustration of the thematic network of scientific productions in the field of teachers' professional development: 1998-2022

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Master's student of World History, Tabriz University and history teacher, Zanjan

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University faculty member (Assistant Professor)

Abstract

Considering the position of scientometric researches in different scientific fields, the present research was conducted with the aim of analyzing articles related to the professional development of teachers. The descriptive-applied research method and the research area included all the articles on the professional development of teachers that were indexed in the Science Direct citation database from 1998 to 2022, after filtering the related articles of 2382 of them with Excel and V software. She. S. Weaver was analyzed. The findings of the research showed that the publication of articles in this field had an upward trend and was the most frequent in 2021. Also, research articles with 2071 works and teaching and teacher training magazine with 710 works were ranked first. Key words: professional development, teacher training, teaching improvement, teacher development, teachers, educational issues were the most frequent and co-occurring. Next, 8 clusters and 1883 links were identified, the first cluster had 38 subject categories and 603 links, and literacy and motivation category with 36 links had the most links with other members of the network. Clusters of online education, student engagement, self-efficacy, teacher expertise, coaching, new skills, social media, computational thinking, distance education, information literacy, robotics, data science, problem-based education, teacher awareness, rural teachers, virtual teaching And the training with the help of a trainer has a variety, and also teacher training, educational strategies, higher education and training were the most influential topics in this field. As a result, conducting research with new topics in the field of professional development of teachers can be effective in advancing the goals of teacher training.

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