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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers	47
The digital ‘turn’ in music education (editorial)	47
Shifting from offline to online collaborative music-making, teaching and learning: perceptions of Ethno artistic mentors	45
Creative pedagogies in the time of pandemic: a case study with conservatory students	45
Adaptations of music education in primary and secondary school due to COVID-19: the experience in Spain	31
Piano learning in the context of schooling during China’s ‘Piano craze’ and beyond: motivations and pathways	22
Twists, turns and thrills during COVID-19: music teaching and practice in Australia	21
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	17
Online peer mentoring and remote learning	17
A pandemic as the mother of invention? Collegial online collaboration to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Music students’ experienced workload, livelihoods and stress in higher education in Finland and the United Kingdom	15
‘This circle of joy’: meaningful musicians’ work and the benefits of facilitating singing groups	15
Exploring perceptions and experiences of students, parents and teachers on their online instrumental lessons	14
Reflecting on the ‘Community’ in Community Music School after a transition to all-online instruction	11
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland: an extensive observational study	11
Fostering musical creativity of students with intellectual disabilities: Strategies, gamification and re-framing creativity	11
Gamification and mobile learning: innovative experiences to motivate and optimise music content within university contexts	9
2050 And beyond: A futurist perspective on musicians’ livelihoods	9
Perceptions of values and influential sources of creativity, music types, and music activities in school music learning: a study of students in Changsha, China	9
Virtual reality in vocal training: a case study	9
A study of students’ perceptions of parental influence on students’ musical instrument learning in Beijing, China	8
Disentangling motivation within instrumental music learning: a systematic review	7
Hidden elitism: the meritocratic discourse of free choice in Finnish music education system	7
‘More than a day job, a fair job: music graduate employment in education’	7
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	7

Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	7
What is on offer within Norwegian extracurricular schools of music and performing arts? Findings from a national survey	7
The value of ‘Soft Skills’ in popular music education in nurturing musical livelihoods	7
Reconfiguring music education for future-making: how?	7
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China	6
Exploring music student teachers’ professional identities	6
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	6
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	5
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	5
Teaching musical instruments during COVID-19: teachers assess struggles, relations with students, and leveraging	5
Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	5
Musical skills in the Spanish Grado university degree in Early Childhood Education. How do Spanish university students view their preparation?	5
Re-thinking music education partnerships through intra-actions	5
Effect of music intervention on depression in graduate students	4
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	4
Musicking a different possible future: the role of music in imagination	4
Music in the school life of newly arrived migrant children: potential paths to participation and belonging	4
Music teachers’ understanding of blended learning in Korean elementary music classes	4
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	4
The transformative potentials and politics of music in juvenile justice settings	4
Social support in university music students’ coping with performance anxiety: people, strategies and performance situations	4
Transmedia educational project as a method of developing music teacher’ transmedia competence	4
Listening to music as a teaching area in Croatian primary schools: the teacher's perspective	3
An ecology of musical livelihoods	3
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	3
The potential of a mixed-methods approach for research on learning to theorise music	3
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	3
Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing	3
Experiences during listening to music in school	3
Music teachers at the crossroads: navigating the curriculum as plan and lived	3
Music teacher attitudes toward popular music education	3
Creativity in Hong Kong’s special schools’ music classrooms	3
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	2
‘Taste the value of each note’: verbal teaching strategies in guitar masterclasses	2
Livelihoods as a kaleidoscope of distributed lifeworlds: Towards a nuanced understanding of music-making and identity in migrants in South-East Queensland	2
Musical engagement and identity: exploring young adults’ experiences, tastes, and beliefs	2
Instrumental teaching as ‘the noblest and the most under-praised job’: multiple case studies of three Hong Kong instrumental teachers	2
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	2
Musical backgrounds and musical identity development in pre-service music education and primary education students: a narrative study	2
Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: institutional and industrial perspectives on instrumental teacher education in England	2
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	2
Navigating a performance livelihood: career trajectories and transitions for the classical singer	2
The impact of dysconscious racism and ethical caring on choral repertoire	2
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	2
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	2
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
Becoming musicians: learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region	2
White preservice music educators’ perceptions of teaching predominantly Black student populations in city schools	2

Music education for social change: constructing an activist music education	2
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	1
Exploring the unmeasurable: valuing the long-term impacts of primary music education	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	1
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
Some direction: towards a C21 secondary school curriculum	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
Perceived influences of a music teacher education programme on preservice music educators’ occupational identity development	1
Teacher habitus as/at the nexus of practice: Musical Futures and Irish primary schools	1
Alternative seating practices: pedagogy of the back of the orchestra	1
Effectiveness of targeted feedback in improving rhythm sightreading	1
No justice, no peace: an arts-based project with a college choir	1
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	1
Secondary music teachers: a case study at a time of education reform in Wales	1
Equity and inclusion in extracurricular musical activities: empirical findings from Germany and implications for teaching music in secondary school	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
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	1
A demographic profile of high school music courses in New York	1
Frontiers of difference: a duo-ethnographic study of social justice in music education	1
Ritornello: El Sistema, music education, and a centuries-long narrative of socio-musical activism	1
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	1
Introduction	1
Assessing accessibility: an instrumental case study of a community music group	1
Music teacher perceptions of modern band and Little Kids Rock: a qualitative study of programme outcomes	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
Sources influencing primary school student teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in their music studies	1
Developing emplaced performance knowledge in professional symphony orchestras	1
‘In the cracks between freedom and fear’: student reflections on identity and confidence learning in a creative music ensemble	1
Ecosocial approach to music education	1
Heads of composition perspectives on the role of composition teaching in UK music conservatoires composition department	1
Comparative music education in partnership: examining policy and provision of music in initial teacher education in Ireland and Northern Ireland	1
Funding for small-to-medium art music organisations in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia): a case study	1
Problematising the potentials of music programs to address Australia’s youth justice policy problems	1
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	1
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	1
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1