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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges in teachers’ professional identity development under the National Teacher Training Programme: an exploratory study of seven major cities in Mainland China	27
Music teacher attitudes toward popular music education	22
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education	13
Towards decolonising university music education in Nigeria	12
Student teachers’ views of their own musical skills to teach the National Core Curriculum in Finland	10
Transmedia educational project as a method of developing music teacher’ transmedia competence	9
Education, music, and the lives of undergraduates: colleagiate a cappella and the pursuit of happiness	8
Call For PapersRIME 2025 The 14th International Conference for Research in Music Education (April 22–25 2025, Online)	8
Together apart: a comparison of a thematic and diffractive analysis of a participatory music project	7
The place of master theses in music performance education in Sweden: subjects, purposes, justifications	7
Comparative music education in partnership: examining policy and provision of music in initial teacher education in Ireland and Northern Ireland	7
Learning trajectories of classical musicians engaging in Musikvermittlung	6
Sound teaching: a research-informed approach to inspiring confidence, skill, and enjoyment in music performance	6
Dialectic tension: music education majors’ lived experience in an international choir trip	6
Train noise as music: an exploration of audio-graphic interpretations elicited by music students and non-musicians	5
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
Entrepreneurial identity formation through musical identity formation	5
Intergenerational peer mentoring in an online jazz improvisation course	5
Visually communicating exclusiveness: how specialist music secondary schools in England represent themselves on the web	5
An exploration of the practice habits and experiences of professional musicians	5
A journey of collaborative inquiry: perspectives from preservice and cooperating music teachers in Korea	5
Epilogue	4
‘Imagine you’re in the Opera House … ’ Learning nonverbal communication for the concert stage	4
Ecosocial approach to music education	4

Digital didactic resources and music: mapping the last decade of research	4
Posthumanist new materialist pathways for reimagining music education research: What matters? What can this offer music educators?	4
Cultivating music students’ creativity in piano performance: a multiple-case study in China	4
Re-thinking music education partnerships through intra-actions	3
Music learning, engagement, and personal growth: child perspectives on a music workshop developed in a Portuguese state school	3
What happens in school music in Norway? Findings from a national survey of music teachers	3
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives	3
Introducing multi-sited focused ethnography for researching one-to-one (singing voice) pedagogy in higher education	3
Cognitive processing of rhythm in primary education: encounters between teaching practice and scientific evidence	3
Context matters: adaptation of student-centred education in China school music classrooms	2
Discourses in Swedish preschool music teachers’ conversations: proficiency, subordination and resistance	2
Through the lens of Bourdieu: an integral literature review on bringing gender neutrality to the musical instrument selection process	2
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy	2
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce	2
Problematising the potentials of music programs to address Australia’s youth justice policy problems	2
Music copywriting and the problems of music education: overcoming prohibitions and the use of music in teaching	2
Gestural migration as a pedagogical tool in violin learning: a case study	2
The efficacy of imagery-based instruction for expressive performance: a study of university musicians’ practice	2
Perceived influences of a music teacher education programme on preservice music educators’ occupational identity development	2
Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming	2
How to teach a puppet to sing: exploring posthuman perspectives on the ‘natural’ voice alongside The Walk (2021)	2
The identity reconciliation of five elementary students across their landscapes of musical practice	2
‘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	2
Teaching music to kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia: parents’ perspectives	2
The impact of dysconscious racism and ethical caring on choral repertoire	2
Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries	2
OOO, Guerrilla metaphysics, and the allure of children’s musical play	2
Exploring the perspectives of Asian American parents on their musically talented children in instrumental education	2