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 2020-04-01 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
Hidden elitism: the meritocratic discourse of free choice in Finnish music education system	6
Exploring music student teachers’ professional identities	6

How children listen: multimodality and its implications for K-12 music education and music teacher education	6
Let’s play together: teacher perspectives on collaborative chamber music instruction	5
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
Professional interactions and networks of co-teaching music educators	4
Musicking a different possible future: the role of music in imagination	4
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
‘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
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