OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Education Research is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards decolonising university music education in Nigeria	47
Music teacher attitudes toward popular music education	47
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education	47
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	45
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	31
Visually communicating exclusiveness: how specialist music secondary schools in England represent themselves on the web	22
Education, music, and the lives of undergraduates: colleagiate a cappella and the pursuit of happiness	21
A journey of collaborative inquiry: perspectives from preservice and cooperating music teachers in Korea	18
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	17
Some direction: towards a C21 secondary school curriculum	16
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	14
Learning trajectories of classical musicians engaging in Musikvermittlung	11
Transmedia educational project as a method of developing music teacher’ transmedia competence	11
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	9
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	9
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	7
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	7
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	7
Comparative music education in partnership: examining policy and provision of music in initial teacher education in Ireland and Northern Ireland	7
Musicking a different possible future: the role of music in imagination	6
Adaptations of music education in primary and secondary school due to COVID-19: the experience in Spain	6
Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022	5
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students	5
Dialectic tension: music education majors’ lived experience in an international choir trip	5
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	5

Intergenerational peer mentoring in an online jazz improvisation course	5
Digital didactic resources and music: mapping the last decade of research	5
Epilogue	4
Music learning, engagement, and personal growth: child perspectives on a music workshop developed in a Portuguese state school	4
Posthumanist new materialist pathways for reimagining music education research: What matters? What can this offer music educators?	4
Ecosocial approach to music education	4
Reflecting on the ‘Community’ in Community Music School after a transition to all-online instruction	4
‘Imagine you’re in the Opera House … ’ Learning nonverbal communication for the concert stage	4
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	4
Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development	3
Gestural migration as a pedagogical tool in violin learning: a case study	3
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	3
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	3
‘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	3
YouTube comments on violin instruction videos: an analysis of comments in Turkish	3
Re-thinking music education partnerships through intra-actions	3
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	2
The impact of dysconscious racism and ethical caring on choral repertoire	2
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	2
Centre for Excellence in Music Performance Education (CEMPE): an inquiry into institutional change processes in higher music education	2
A pandemic as the mother of invention? Collegial online collaboration to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	2
Discourses in Swedish preschool music teachers’ conversations: proficiency, subordination and resistance	2
Examining online video-based professional development for music teachers	2
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	2
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	2
Online peer mentoring and remote learning	2
The efficacy of imagery-based instruction for expressive performance: a study of university musicians’ practice	2
Twists, turns and thrills during COVID-19: music teaching and practice in Australia	2
The identity reconciliation of five elementary students across their landscapes of musical practice	2
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	2