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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Research: Music education in a time of pandemic	62
U-turns in the fog: the unfolding story of the impact of COVID-19 on music education in England and the UK	18
The value of collaborative learning for music practice in higher education	16
Teaching repertoires and pedagogical improvisation in music teacher practices	11
Authentic learning in senior secondary music pedagogy: an examination of teaching practice in high-achieving school music programmes	9
From student to professional: recent conservatoire graduates’ experiences of instrumental teaching	8
Online composition: strategies and processes during collaborative electroacoustic composition	8
Perceptions of the informal learning branch of Musical Futures	8
The Force Field Model applied to a Music Education teacher training framework in a South African context	7
Processes of academisation in higher music education: the case of Sweden	5
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
Music across the waves: an international comparative examination of the Irish generalist and the American specialist models of music education from the teacher’s perspective	4
Exploring motivation in music teachers: the case of three primary schools in Spain	4
Music achievements of being an English chorister	4
Where’s the body? Reconsidering the concept of pedagogical content knowledge through research in music education with Dutch specialist preschool music teachers	3
Reflections on the concept of musical development	3
Learner autonomy in music performance practices	3
Exploring Chinese college chamber music education: a case study of students’ conceptions	2
Exploring issues in categorisation of higher music education courses through FOI surveys of gender demographics in UK higher education institutions	2
Investigating how composing teaching and assessment in English secondary school classrooms reinforce myths about composers and their creative practices	2
Does learning to play an instrument have an impact on change in attainment from age 11 to 16?	2
Teacher perspective on music performance anxiety: an exploration of coping strategies used by music teachers	2
How can we prepare music students for early career challenges?	2
Opera in primary education for the development of social and emotional skills: a case study from Mexico City	2

Power relations in the music teaching studio	2
Time for change? Recurrent barriers to music education	2
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	2
Evaluation of the Early Childhood Music Education project’s influence on the development of 3- to 5-year-old children in Andalusia, Spain	2
‘Pouring everything that you are’: musicians’ experiences of optimal performances	1
Enjoying flow in primary school music making: does family musical practice matter?	1
Work-integrated learning in university popular music programmes: localised approaches to vocational curricula in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
The sequence of musical development and its place in Swanwick’s meta-theory of music education: a personal response	1
BJME 37-1 Editorial: Music-making continues during the pandemic	1
Informal learning of popular music: gender monoglossia and heteroglossia	1
The importance of threshold concepts and formative assessment in lower-secondary school group composing	1
The perceived influence of the one-on-one instrumental learning environment on tertiary string students’ perceptions of their own playing-related discomfort/pain	1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice	1
Musical development then and now: in conversation with June Boyce-Tillman	1
Teacher perceptions of A-level music: tension, dilemmas and decline	1
Speaking of your own repertoire: an investigation of music performance during practice	1
The Swanwick/Tillman Spiral of Musical Development: impacts and influences – Guest Editorial	1
Living the spiral curriculum: using the Swanwick/Tillman sequence of musical development to support music in primary schools in the 1980s	1
The significance of formative assessment for pupils’ spiral progression in English lower secondary school group composing	1
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach	1
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak	1
Curriculum considerations in music education in England: spiral thinking, spiral planning and its impact on contemporary thought	1
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester	1