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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	22
How is perception related to action? A neurophysiological perspective on music perception and learning	17
Epilogue	14
Ecosocial approach to music education	13
Qualitative analysis of university lecturers’ understanding and approaches of sight-reading teaching in China	13
A dialogic exploration of pedagogical orchestration and entrained participation	11
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	9
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	8
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	8
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	8
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	7
The construction of ‘we’ Empowering music practice in kindergarten	7
Echoes of childhood: songs that have left their mark on future early childhood educators	6
Giftedness theories in musical talent development research: a scoping review with implications for music education scholars and practitioners	6
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	6
An educational psychology perspective on exploring the impact of the flipped classroom model in hybrid environments on violin music learning motivation	6
Discourse analysis in music education: a systematic review	5
From practising to practice; towards a practice model for self-regulated learning	5
Editorial	5
Conservatoire staff perspectives on the role of alumni in higher music education: who benefits?	5
Education and the reggaetón genre: does reggaetón socialize in traditional masculine stereotypes?	5
Social relatedness influences student retention in Chinese university ensembles: the interplay of teacher-student relatedness, peer relatedness, and teacher differentiation	5
Proposing an assessment framework for Cantonese operatic singing after reviewing the current practices in Hong Kong and Guangdong, China	4
MusicBeing as an entanglement of ideas and practices in ecology, resilience, spirituality, and well-being. A meta-narrative review	4
Balancing inclusivity and musical competence: ECEC teachers' motivation to teach music through a situated expectancy-value lens	4

Australia’s hidden musicians: education and training in rural and regional areas	4
Music literacy and the instrumental teacher	4
Tensions, issues and strengths of Professor Lucy Green’s model of informal learning	4
‘I am a good mother’: maternal performance and the reproduction of patriarchy through musical mothering of Chinese mothers	4
Using architecture to understand music: an interdisciplinary active learning pilot project	4
Teachers’ perspectives on music education in Croatian music schools	4
NMH’s Children’s Concert Series – experiences from participating students	4
Patterns of variation in sociomusical identity of school-goers in a condition of social vulnerability and musical gaps in their education	4
Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China Globalization, nationalism, and music education in the twenty-first century in Greater China	4
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Correction	3
Improving classroom inclusion through Orff-inspired music education: a study from a secondary school in Fujian, China	3
The relationship between musical development and social inclusion in small-group instrumental teaching	3
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	3
Children's experiences of choral singing: evaluating reflexive choir journals with primary school pupils	3
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	3
Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir	3
Meeting the musician-teacher halfway: a Baradian perspective on identity research in music education	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	3
Exploring preservice elementary teachers’ self-reports of movement-based instruction in the general music classroom: an inductive thematic analysis	3
Young people healing and growing in trauma-informed positive music education	3
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	3
Towards a transformative music education: a collaborative autoethnography in the Spanish university context	3
Examining gender bias in student evaluations of music teacher educators	3
Conceptualising instrumental practice among Chinese American children, their parents, and teachers: self-regulation, cultural mediation, and filial piety	3
Embracing complexity in music education: rethinking practice, knowledge, and learning	3
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	3
Indian music teachers’ agency when establishing an in-school music education programme in schools	2
Contemporary music perception among music students: current trends and educational perspectives in Armenia	2
Female conservatoire students’ voices regarding futures in the male-dominated world of western classical music: the communicative or controlled mirroring pianist body?	2
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	2
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	2
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	2
Strategies used in harmonising tonal songs: a study with students of melodic instruments	2
Experiences during listening to music in school	2
International communication and cultural exchange based on music: a study of the experience of Chinese music education in other countries	2
Editorial	2
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	2
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	2
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools	2
Preparing for infants’ musicking – a tracking case study of a Chinese family's musical environment	2
Human rights education through collaborative songwriting: a workshop for music teacher education in Chile	2
Silent learning: a multimodal approach to examining non-verbal communication in secondary school computer-based music lessons	2
The positive learning transfer from a musical play early-learning system® to young children’s linguistic and spatial skills	2
Decolonising the rhythm curriculum: integrating global groove practices in undergraduate aural skills	2
Neoliberalism and intercultural popular music education: Chinese and Korean undergraduate students in South Korea	2
School off, music on: dimensions of young adult’s musical practices after finishing school	2
‘Sing, sing, sing’ embodiment and situationality in the singing development of early education and care professionals	1
Blurred lines and queered spaces: an examination of teachers’ visions of multi-styles curricula	1
Teaching and learning in music education – a meta-synthesis	1

Reverberations in music education: What does sound ‘do’ in our learning spaces ?	1
Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out	1
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	1
Editorial	1
Secondary music teachers: a case study at a time of education reform in Wales	1
Review of music literacy strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis	1
No justice, no peace: an arts-based project with a college choir	1
Empowering piano students of Western classical music: challenging teaching and learning of musical interpretation in higher education	1
Music teacher experiences of trauma sequelae in the elementary general music classroom: a case study	1
The parent role in Suzuki music lessons: experiences and perspectives shared by novice Suzuki parents	1
Music education research special issue: posthuman perspectives for music education	1
Sound possibilities: listening for the new in early years music-making practices	1
Motivational factors for sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra among primary school students: a self-determination theory perspective	1
Supporting musical affordances for desistance and resistance in youth justice settings	1
An International quartet of voices: sharing songs and culture beyond borders	1
Centring perspectives of disabled children in music education research	1
Exploring the perspectives of Asian American parents on their musically talented children in instrumental education	1
Exploring Nordic approaches to advanced instrumental music pedagogy: insights from ethnographic fieldwork	1
Thinking ahead: the use of mental training in young violinists’ skill development	1
‘It’s music and we came to play instruments’: teaching for engagement in classroom music	1
Reconfiguring music education for future-making: how?	1
Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing	1
What factors influence whether and how Norwegian kindergarten teachers sing with children? Results of a national survey	1
Illuminating hidden work of group singing facilitators: a grounded theory study	1
Editorial	1
Intercultural dialogue and the mobilisation of aural skills	1
Self-identified learning needs in style-bound musical improvisation: a qualitative, category-guided analysis for fostering self-directed action	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Posthuman Perspectives for Music Education	1
Understanding virtual rehearsal participation through self-determination theory	1
Crossing borders and generations: examining the relationship between music engagement and immigration generation	1
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	1
Methodological shifts and departures in music education research: embracing complexity with diffraction, intra-action, and agentic assemblages	1
Design and implementation of outdoor music learning environments for a younger preschool class: a case study of educational practices and outcomes	1
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students	1
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	1
A reflective evaluation of digital storytelling in music education: designing my digital story	1
Attitudes of future preschool and primary school teachers in Montenegro regarding music education training	1
The instrumental practice goal realization inventory: from intention to evaluation	1
Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education	1
How inclusive are our music classrooms? A theoretical model and case study from a preschool class of a mainstream private nursery school in Cyprus	1
Reconceptualising literature reviews in Ghanaian music theory and composition: a path toward academic rigour and creative engagement	1
On decolonising music diversity in/and higher education	1
University students facilitating hip hop in a community engagement project: experiences and perceptions	1
Recognising intra-actions of music and pupil	1
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	1
Digital music and critical music literacy	1