OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Education Research is 3. 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
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
Gamification and mobile learning: innovative experiences to motivate and optimise music content within university contexts	9
A study of students’ perceptions of parental influence on students’ musical instrument learning in Beijing, China	8
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
Disentangling motivation within instrumental music learning: a systematic review	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
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
Listening to music as a teaching area in Croatian primary schools: the teacher's perspective	3
An ecology of musical livelihoods	3