OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Music Education Research 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative pedagogies in the time of pandemic: a case study with conservatory students	40
The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers	39
The digital ‘turn’ in music education (editorial)	37
Shifting from offline to online collaborative music-making, teaching and learning: perceptions of Ethno artistic mentors	31
Adaptations of music education in primary and secondary school due to COVID-19: the experience in Spain	26
Piano learning in the context of schooling during China’s ‘Piano craze’ and beyond: motivations and pathways	18
Reflection in higher music education: what, why, wherefore?	16
Music students’ experienced workload, livelihoods and stress in higher education in Finland and the United Kingdom	15
Exploring music performance anxiety, self-efficacy, performance quality, and behavioural anxiety within a self-modelling intervention for young musicians	14
Online peer mentoring and remote learning	14
Twists, turns and thrills during COVID-19: music teaching and practice in Australia	14
A pandemic as the mother of invention? Collegial online collaboration to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	13
Exploring perceptions and experiences of students, parents and teachers on their online instrumental lessons	12
‘This circle of joy’: meaningful musicians’ work and the benefits of facilitating singing groups	10
Virtual reality in vocal training: a case study	9
2050 And beyond: A futurist perspective on musicians’ livelihoods	9
Reflecting on the ‘Community’ in Community Music School after a transition to all-online instruction	8
The value of ‘Soft Skills’ in popular music education in nurturing musical livelihoods	7
Fostering musical creativity of students with intellectual disabilities: Strategies, gamification and re-framing creativity	7
Perceptions of values and influential sources of creativity, music types, and music activities in school music learning: a study of students in Changsha, China	7
‘More than a day job, a fair job: music graduate employment in education’	7
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland: an extensive observational study	7
Exploring music student teachers’ professional identities	6
How children listen: multimodality and its implications for K-12 music education and music teacher education	6

Hidden elitism: the meritocratic discourse of free choice in Finnish music education system	6
Gamification and mobile learning: innovative experiences to motivate and optimise music content within university contexts	5
Disentangling motivation within instrumental music learning: a systematic review	5
What is on offer within Norwegian extracurricular schools of music and performing arts? Findings from a national survey	5
Determining what expert piano sight-readers have in common	5
Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
Big boys don’t cry (or sing) … still?: a modern exploration of gender, misogyny, and homophobia in college choral methods texts	4
Perceptions of playing-related discomfort/pain among tertiary string students: a thematic analysis	4
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	4
Perception of the ternary arch-form in Western concert music: evidence from college music education	4
Effect of music intervention on depression in graduate students	4
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	4
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	4
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	4
Musical skills in the Spanish Grado university degree in Early Childhood Education. How do Spanish university students view their preparation?	4
A study of students’ perceptions of parental influence on students’ musical instrument learning in Beijing, China	4
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	4
Musicking a different possible future: the role of music in imagination	4
Listening to music as a teaching area in Croatian primary schools: the teacher's perspective	3
Music teachers at the crossroads: navigating the curriculum as plan and lived	3
Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing	3
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	3
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	3
Togetherness!: adult companionship – the key to music making in kindergarten	3
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	3
An ecology of musical livelihoods	3
Re-thinking music education partnerships through intra-actions	3
Isolation at the workplace: the case of music teachers in the Spanish primary education system	3
Music in the school life of newly arrived migrant children: potential paths to participation and belonging	3
The transformative potentials and politics of music in juvenile justice settings	3
Reconfiguring music education for future-making: how?	3
Looking at the ideal secondary school music teacher in Cyprus: teachers’ and students’ perspectives	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	3
The potential of a mixed-methods approach for research on learning to theorise music	3
Integrating movable numbers into fixed-do system in solfege class: an action research study	2
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	2
Livelihoods as a kaleidoscope of distributed lifeworlds: Towards a nuanced understanding of music-making and identity in migrants in South-East Queensland	2
Music teachers’ understanding of blended learning in Korean elementary music classes	2
The impact of dysconscious racism and ethical caring on choral repertoire	2
Music education for social change: constructing an activist music education	2
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	2
Musical backgrounds and musical identity development in pre-service music education and primary education students: a narrative study	2
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	2
Becoming musicians: learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
Instrumental teaching as ‘the noblest and the most under-praised job’: multiple case studies of three Hong Kong instrumental teachers	2
Not just composing, but programming music in group robotics	2
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	2

Transmedia educational project as a method of developing music teacher’ transmedia competence	2
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	2
Creativity in Hong Kong’s special schools’ music classrooms	2
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	2
Navigating a performance livelihood: career trajectories and transitions for the classical singer	2
White preservice music educators’ perceptions of teaching predominantly Black student populations in city schools	2
One Direction: strategic challenges for twenty-first century secondary school music	2
Music teacher attitudes toward popular music education	2
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	1
Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: institutional and industrial perspectives on instrumental teacher education in England	1
Frontiers of difference: a duo-ethnographic study of social justice in music education	1
‘Taste the value of each note’: verbal teaching strategies in guitar masterclasses	1
Exploring the unmeasurable: valuing the long-term impacts of primary music education	1
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	1
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
Alternative seating practices: pedagogy of the back of the orchestra	1
Comparative music education in partnership: examining policy and provision of music in initial teacher education in Ireland and Northern Ireland	1
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	1
Sources influencing primary school student teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in their music studies	1
Secondary music teachers: a case study at a time of education reform in Wales	1
Ritornello: El Sistema, music education, and a centuries-long narrative of socio-musical activism	1
The subject ‘music’ from inside versus outside the music teaching profession: a comparative case study on the views of music and non-music primary education teachers in Spain	1
Perceived influences of a music teacher education programme on preservice music educators’ occupational identity development	1
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	1
Equity and inclusion in extracurricular musical activities: empirical findings from Germany and implications for teaching music in secondary school	1
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	1
Some direction: towards a C21 secondary school curriculum	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
Hearing my world: negotiating borders, porosity, and relationality through cultural production in middle school music classes	1
Communication, identity, respect: a case study of collaborative music practice in a community music project	1
Musical engagement and identity: exploring young adults’ experiences, tastes, and beliefs	1
Funding for small-to-medium art music organisations in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia): a case study	1
‘I can follow’: self-directed informal learning strategies adopted by choristers in an adult amateur choir	1
‘Blazing the trail or exposing the gaps?’ Discourses on student-centredness in genre independent and classical music performance study programmes in Norway and the Netherlands	1
Developing emplaced performance knowledge in professional symphony orchestras	1
Can we measure musically active people’s music skills and achievement self-concept? Structure and invariance of CAMU, a Spanish questionnaire	1