1st Edition

Teacher Professional Vision: Theoretical and Methodological Advances

Edited By Andreas Gegenfurtner, Rebekka Stahnke Copyright 2025
208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Research has shown that although teachers’ knowledge about the subject or pedagogy is important, a teacher’s professional vision (including their perceptions and pedagogical decisions) can also have a significant impact on the efficacy of their practice. Firmly grounded in the long-standing field of teacher professional vision research, this two-volume edited book explores new theoretical... Read more

Part I Introduction

1. Advancing research on teacher professional vision and teacher noticing
Andreas Gegenfurtner and Rebekka Stahnke

2. Research on teacher professional vision: Mapping the landscape of theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions 
Rebekka Stahnke

Part II Theoretical Frameworks

3. Professional vision and teacher noticing: Looking back and looking forward 
Miriam Gamoran Sherin, Jennifer Richards, and Sarah Larison

4. A cognitive perspective on teachers’ professional vision: How teachers’ professional knowledge shapes a professional vision 
Tina Seidel, Christian Kosel, Ricardo Böheim, Andreas Gegenfurtner and Kathleen Stürmer

5. Intelligence, knowledge, skills, behavior: Refining the Blömeke, Gustafsson, and Shavelson model of competence-as-a-continuum 
Sigrid Blömeke

6. Cognitive theory of visual expertise: Implications for research on teacher noticing and professional vision 
Andreas Gegenfurtner

Part III Methodological Approaches

7. Characteristics and validation of video-based standardised instruments measuring professional vision: A closer look at the predictive validity of different task formats 
Bernadette Gold, Madeleine Müller, Kira Elena Weber and Christopher Prilop

8. Using videos as a tool to promote professional vision 
Robin Junker and Manfred Holodynski 

9. Extended reality as a tool in research on teachers’ professional vision 
Patricia Goldberg and Tim Fütterer 

10. Eye tracking as a process-based methodology to examine teachers’ professional vision 
Ann-Sophie Grub, Antje Biermann and Roland Brünken

11. Intervention research on teachers’ professional vision: Challenges of current research 
Julia Bruns

Part IV Discussion

12. Teacher professional vision: A concept revisited 
Kai S. Cortina, Yizhen Huang and Dirk Richter

Biography

Andreas Gegenfurtner is Professor of Methods in Learning Research at the University of Augsburg. His research focuses on teacher noticing, student diversity, digital learning, and the confluence of expertise, training, and development in the professions.

Rebekka Stahnke is a postdoctoral researcher at the IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include teacher professional vision, classroom management, and teacher professional development.