OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Music Education is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the aids of social media for musical instrument education	53
Digital technologies in music subjects on primary teacher training degrees in Spain: Teachers’ habits and profiles	20
Teaching music in England today	19
Broadening student musicians’ career horizons: The importance of being and becoming a learner in higher education	16
Teaching creative music in El Sistema and after-school music contexts	13
Understanding preservice music teachers’ intention to remain in the profession: An integrated model of the theory of planned behaviour and motivation theory	12
Finding the “both/and”: Balancing informal and formal music learning	11
Towards an eco-literate tertiary music education: Notes from a South African context	11
Integrating popular music into urban schools: Assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive music teacher development program	10
Beyond the dots on the page: Harnessing transculturation and music education to address intercultural competence and social inclusion	9
Preservice music teachers’ self-efficacy and concerns before and during student teaching	9
A music literacy-based rationale for popular music ensembles and experiences in music education	9
Identity formation in music teacher education: The role of the curriculum	9
The sustainability of multicultural music education in Guizhou Province, China	9
When theory and practice meet: Avenues for entrepreneurship education in music conservatories	9
Mapping music education research in Mainland China (2007–2019): A metadata-based literature analysis	8
What are the affordances of the digital music space in alternative education? A reflection on an exploratory music outreach project in rural Australia	8
The impact of a music education program on meta-musical awareness, logical-mathematical, and notational skills in preschoolers	8
The influences of facial expression and conducting gesture on college musicians' perceptions of choral conductor and ensemble expressivity	8
Factors in the motivations of studio-based musical instrument learners in Hong Kong: An in-depth interview study	7
Creativity, autonomy and Dalcroze Eurhythmics: An arts practice exploration	7
Performance anxiety experiences and coping techniques of Turkish music students and their teachers	7
(Re)organizing the music curriculum as multicultural music education	7
Hacking, disability, and music education	7
Can indigenous music learning processes inform contemporary schooling?	7

Preservice music teachers in Korea and their collaborative reflection with peers	7
East meets West: Investigating the state of DJing culture and turntablism pedagogy in China	7
Stressors and psychological distress: Music listening as a coping strategy for pre-service kindergarten teachers	6
How do college musicians self-manage musical performance anxiety: Strategies through time periods and types of performance	6
The author and the piano student: The transferability of the creative process in practice	6
Peer tutoring in music education: A literature review	6
Online music education for sustainable development: Analysis of music learning videos ine-Hakseupteo	5
Professional reflexivity and the paradox of freedom: Negotiating professional boundaries in a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox female music teacher education programme	5
Children’s verbal explanations of their visual representation of the music	5
On the design and validation of a rubric for the evaluation of performance in a musical contest	5
Popular education and music education: Lessons from a strings program in Erechim, Brazil	5
Technology use in high school aural skills instruction	5
Classical soloists’ life histories and the music conservatoire	5
Musical expression in the training of future primary education teachers in Galicia	5
Peer mentoring in an extracurricular music class	5
Why (not) be a music teacher? Exploring pre-service music teachers’ sources of concern regarding their future profession	5
Self-regulated learning skills of prospective music teachers in Turkey	5
A systematic literature review of Chinese music education studies during 2007 to 2019	4
Appraising the extent of digital divide between music teachers and students in Anambra state secondary schools, Nigeria	4
E-learning during the COVID-19 lockdown: An interview study with primary school music teachers in Italy	4
Negotiating versatility and specialisation: On music teachers’ identification with subject positions in Norwegian municipal schools of music and performing arts	4
Innovative and disruptive pedagogies in music education: A systematic review of the literature	4
The self-directed learning of adult music students: A comparison of teacher approaches and student needs	4
A comparative study of piano performance programs at university-level institutions in China and the United States: From current faculty members’ and students’ perspectives	4
Music facilitator experiences of working in asylum seeker centres: Complexities, dilemmas and opportunities	4
From theory to practice: Student-centered pedagogical implementation in primary music demonstration lessons in Guangdong, China	4
“He didn’t know what he was doin’”: Student perspectives of a White teacher’s Hip-Hop class	4
A Music Teacher’s Blended Teaching and Learning Experience during COVID-19: Autoethnography of Resilience	4
Influences on teacher efficacy of preservice music educators	4
Equity via relations of equality: Bridging the classroom-society divide	3
Factors influencing the career intentions of music performance students: An integrated model analysis	3
How popular music pedagogy is integrated in the diverse environment of international school education in China: A case study in Shanghai	3
“Mistakes are just information”: A case study of a highly successful violin pedagogue	3
The ecology for fostering the musical creativity of students with intellectual disabilities	3
Counterpoint in the music classroom: Creating an environment of resilience with peer mentoring and LGBTQIA+ students	3
Nurturing student ethnic identity through culturally responsive music teaching in China	3
Fluctuating emotions and motivation: Five stages of the rehearsal and performance process	3
Music professionalism promoting gerotranscendence: An instrumental case study of healthcare musicians in an eldercare hospital	3
Understanding music teachers’ perceptions of themselves and their work: An Importance–Confidence Analysis	3
Effectual thinking and music education: One view of creative adaptation in an underserved urban middle school	3
Investigating the moderating role of coping style on music performance anxiety and perfectionism	3
The complexities of meaningful experiential learning: Exploring reflective practice in music performance studies	2
Students’ experiences of their agency in whole-class playing	2
Children’s feelings about piano performances across a year of study	2
Stylistic pluralism and the experiences of classically trained teachers of singing in the Republic of Ireland	2
Seeking best practice: A systematic review of literature on Chinese music teaching and learning in Western classroom contexts	2
Music education in Northern Ireland: A process to achieve social inclusion through segregated education?	2
Inclusive socio-musical spaces for newly arrived migrant children in a Norwegian primary school: Teacher and school leader perspectives	2
Zoltán Kodály gives a hand to secondary school students in recorder performance and attitudes toward music in Turkey	2
The singing effect during melodic dictation	2

Instructor experiences with online guitar lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	2
Learner-centered pedagogy and student engagement in a virtual elementary instrumental music program	2
The conservatory debated from a critical pedagogy perspective	2
Factors associated with fourth graders' music knowledge assessed by SCAAP	2
The effect of participation in a popular band program on students’ musical and extra-musical outcomes in Korea	2
Investigating one-to-one instrumental music lessons in relation to a training programme on Paul Harris’ simultaneous learning	2
Handling of incongruences in music notation during singing or playing	2
Atheist public school choir directors and their views on religious music performance	1
Incorporation of informal music learning practices in a primary classroom in Cyprus	1
Through the looking glass: A researcher’s perspectives on a collaborative music composition project	1
Practice habits and motivation: A qualitative descriptive study of graduate instrumentalists	1
An analysis of four instructional strategies used by secondary school music teachers in Uganda	1
Working together: Implications of leadership style for the music ensemble	1
Improvisation Based on Audience Requests: Pedagogical Possibilities of the Application “Sanka Play” for Performer and Audience Interaction in Elementary School Music Classes	1
Stimulating music educator worldview change through a pedagogy of provocation, critical thinking and peer-review	1
Beyond musical repertory: Euro-Americentric ways of knowing in the International Baccalaureate high school music curriculum framework	1
Antiquity in the history of music: A critical review of the music textbooks for secondary education in Spain	1
Bridging the Digital Divide: Distance music learning among older adult musicians	1
Music education instructors’ perceptions about pre-service music teacher education in Spain	1
Exploring musician-educators’ reflections on a collaborative cross-cultural music making encounter in Singapore	1
Student-directed learning in popular musicianship: An action research study of university music students	1
Pursuing diversity from the podium: Insights from Australia for wind band conductors and educators on achieving gender parity for women composers	1
High school learners’ perceptions of value as motivation to choose music as an elective in Gauteng, South Africa	1
It’s about time: An examination of the importance of timing on positivity of preservice music educators’ teaching reflections	1
Music education in the digital age: Challenges associated with sound homogenization in music aimed at adolescents	1
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe	1
Shifting frames: Two doctoral students’ identity construction as music teacher educators	1
Emerging critical events in creative processes involving music, dance and mathematics in the school	1
Effects of straw phonation on choral acoustic and perceptual measures after an acclimation period	1
Collegiate musicians’ experiences with democratic rehearsal procedures	1
An investigation of musical ability beliefs and self-concept among fourth-grade students in the United States	1
On the quality of professional development in the United States: Examining music educators’ experiences, sentiments, and emotions	1
Children’s informal music learning: A phenomenological inquiry	1
“It’s your body, it’s part of who you are!”: Influences upon collegiate vocalists’ performance self-efficacy beliefs	1
A combined music and writing program helps second graders learn to spell	1
Seeking alternatives in music education: The effects of mobile technologies on students’ achievement in basic music theory	1
Technology-enhanced creativity in K-12 music education: A scoping review	1
Instrument teachers’ practices, beliefs, and barriers regarding musical creativity: Exploring the creative process of interpretation	1
Teaching songs from diverse cultures to pre-service teachers using a “Four Step Flipped” method	1
The iron cage of the music teaching profession: A multi-case study on how primary music teachers in Spain understand bureaucracy	1
Female music educators’ stress and well-being in the height of a global pandemic in the United States	1
Exploring teachers’ approaches to popular music: Attitudes, learning practice, and issues in South Korea	1
Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage	1
Music studies as cultural capital accumulation and its impact on music genre preferences	1
Collaborative untangling of positionality, ownership, and answerability as white researchers in indigenous spaces	1
An evaluation of a musical learning exchange: A case study in a U.S. prison	1
Developing metacognition as an instructional approach for enhancing young pianists’ musical expressivity	1
Autoethnographic narrative as a lens on life-long musician-teacher identity	1
Institutional change in higher music education: A quest for legitimacy	1