OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
U-turns in the fog: the unfolding story of the impact of COVID-19 on music education in England and the UK	20
Teaching repertoires and pedagogical improvisation in music teacher practices	15
Perceptions of the informal learning branch of Musical Futures	11
Authentic learning in senior secondary music pedagogy: an examination of teaching practice in high-achieving school music programmes	10
Processes of academisation in higher music education: the case of Sweden	10
The Force Field Model applied to a Music Education teacher training framework in a South African context	8
Where’s the body? Reconsidering the concept of pedagogical content knowledge through research in music education with Dutch specialist preschool music teachers	5
Music achievements of being an English chorister	5
Reflections on the concept of musical development	4
An investigation into the status of Thailand’s music education systems and organisation	4
Understanding curriculum design in the perceptions and practices of classroom music teachers in the lower secondary school in England	4
Teacher perspective on music performance anxiety: an exploration of coping strategies used by music teachers	4
Teacher perceptions of A-level music: tension, dilemmas and decline	3
The branded product and the funded project: the impact of economic rationality on the practices and pedagogy of music education in the early childhood sector	3
Where neoliberalism and neoconservatism meet: the inception and reception of a Model Music Curriculum for English Schools	3
Evaluation of the Early Childhood Music Education project’s influence on the development of 3- to 5-year-old children in Andalusia, Spain	3
Time for change? Recurrent barriers to music education	3
Does learning to play an instrument have an impact on change in attainment from age 11 to 16?	3
Power relations in the music teaching studio	2
Exploring issues in categorisation of higher music education courses through FOI surveys of gender demographics in UK higher education institutions	2
Creating a musical for pre-schoolers in South Africa as pedagogical praxis for a tertiary music education module	2
Transforming African musics at a South African university	2
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester	2
How can we prepare music students for early career challenges?	2
Investigating how composing teaching and assessment in English secondary school classrooms reinforce myths about composers and their creative practices	2

Curriculum considerations in music education in England: spiral thinking, spiral planning and its impact on contemporary thought	2
The influence of discrete versus continuous movements on children’s musical sense-making	2
Opera in primary education for the development of social and emotional skills: a case study from Mexico City	2
Musical creativity in the teaching practice in Montenegrin and Slovenian primary schools	2
The sequence of musical development and its place in Swanwick’s meta-theory of music education: a personal response	1
Barriers and enablers to undergraduate music students undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) secondary music programme	1
The significance of formative assessment for pupils’ spiral progression in English lower secondary school group composing	1
The importance of threshold concepts and formative assessment in lower-secondary school group composing	1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice	1
Practicalities of a spiral-inspired approach	1
The Swanwick/Tillman Spiral of Musical Development: impacts and influences –Guest Editorial	1
Reflections on New Zealand music education through the lens of Swanwick and Tillman’s model of musical development	1
The power of rap in music education: a study of undergraduate students’ original rap creations	1
Living the spiral curriculum: using the Swanwick/Tillman sequence of musical development to support music in primary schools in the 1980s	1
Student-centred strategies for higher music education: using peer-to-peer critique and practice as research methodologies to train conservatoire musicians	1
Musical development then and now: in conversation with June Boyce-Tillman	1
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak	1
Making sense of democratisation: a case study about extracurricular music workshops in France	1
Proposing and piloting a criterion- and standard-based assessment framework in teaching Cantonese operatic singing in Guangdong, China	1
Secondary choral students’ and preservice music educators’ perceptions of a service-learning experience in the United States: An action research study	1
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account - Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by Graham J. McPhail . Routledge, 2023. Hbk, 256pp, £130. ISBN: 9781032292519.	1
‘Chasing every mark’. High stakes assessment and curriculum narrowing: the case of disciplinary literacy in the Irish secondary music classroom	1
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach	1