Maria A. Flores

Maria Assunção Flores works at the University of Minho, Portugal. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include teacher professionalism and identity, teacher education and professional development, curriculum, assessment, leadership and higher education. She has published extensively on these topics both nationally and internationally. She is currently editor of the European Journal of Teacher Education.

Key Publications

Russell, T. & Flores, M. A. (2021). Developing as teacher educators, in A. Swennen & E. White (Eds). Being a Teacher Educator. Research-Informed Methods for Improving Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 43-55

Flores, M. A. (2020). Feeling like a Student but Thinking like a Teacher: A Study of the Development of Professional Identity in Initial Teacher Education, Journal of Education for Teaching, 46(2), pp. 145-158

Smith, K. & Flores, M. A. (2019). The Janus faced teacher educator, European Journal of Teacher Education, 42(4), pp. 433-446

Flores, M. A. (2018). Linking teaching and research in initial teacher education: knowledge mobilisation and research-informed practice, Journal of Education for Teaching, 44(5), 621-636