Developing preservice teachers' interpersonal knowledge with 360-degree videos in teacher education

•A combination of 360-degree videos and theoretical lectures contributes to more organised knowledge structures of preservice teachers.•Preservice teachers expanded their knowledge structures with more relevant concepts after a video-lecture combination.•Preservice teachers’ knowledge application focused mainly on high level of interpersonal teacher control after a video-lecture combination.•Watching 360-degree videos with a Virtual Reality headset contributes positively to preservice teachers’ interpersonal knowledge application.