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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Moral Education 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	29
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	26
Moral formation in higher education: Conversations from an emerging field	26
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	22
Adults’ perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development	21
A narrative case study: Parental views on the enactment of character education in Islamic boarding schools	18
Moral education at university: Potentialities and gaps	17
Holistic approach in wisdom research is necessary: Response to Akrivou and González	17
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self	15
AI and moral education: Opportunities and challenges examined from multidisciplinary perspectives	15
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	14
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	14
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	13
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	12
Teaching virtue literacy: A strategy for character education in the university	11
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	11
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	11
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	11
‘There are many more gaps in moral education. We need to bridge them all’: Interview with Tobias Krettenauer, recipient of the Kuhmerker Career Award 2024	11
Ten reasons why colleges and universities should educate character	11
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	10
Beyond the self: Self-transcendent emotions for moral character development in the classroom	10
Integrative character education: Valuing both epiphanic and incremental routes to moral growth	10
The use of the LID scale in virtue-based leadership education for university students: An exploratory study	10
The pedagogical hard problem of generative AI: Socratic countermeasures	10

Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	9
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	9
Living together in diversity: A comparative study of citizenship education curricula in Sri Lanka and Australia	9
The 10-item moral outrage scale: Development, psychometric properties, and associations with parenting behavior and peer relationships	8
Mental images and imagination in moral education	8
Education and the culture of giving: Rural evidence from Bangladesh	8
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	8
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	8
Inspiring moral motivation in teacher education: A phenomenographic study of neo-Socratic dialogue as wisdom pedagogy	7
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	7
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	7
Parent-adolescent dynamics and the development of prosocial values: Two-wave prospective design	6
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	6
Trends in youth civic engagement before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	6
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	6
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	6
Locus of control differentiation as intellectual virtue	6
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
Phronesis as unitary ethical expertise: Educational implications for early moral development	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	5
Dawn Schrader	5
Infusing critical moral education into English language teaching through globalizing literature pedagogy in the Chinese EFL classroom	5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	5
How do Chinese volunteer and non-volunteer student teachers differ in their life purpose?	4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	4
Beyond ‘pedagogic phronesis ’: Resolved, part-resolved and unresolved questions about practical wisdom	4
Negotiating morality: Religion, education, and moral foundations in a dual-cultural context	4
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	4
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	4
Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program	4
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives	3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	3
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	3
How American college students identify and resolve their moral challenges	3
Teaching for sustainability and altruism through project-based learning: A framework and case study	3
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	3
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	3

A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	3
‘Because they are a part of life:’ Children’s ideas about the welfare, rights, and protection of animals and ecosystems	3
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	3
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks	3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers	3
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology	3
Personal knowledge: Teaching place-based religious ethics for a climate emergency	3
Asking meaningful life questions in high school: Interviews with alumni of the QUESTion project	3
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	2
The path to forgiveness in post-genocide Rwanda: On the roles of other character constructs	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
Exploring the relationship between civic literacy and social sensitivity in Indonesian elementary schools	2
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	2
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	2
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	2
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	2
Citizenship education in Chinese scholarly discourse: Challenging essentialist understandings of what it means to educate citizens for the future	2
Aretaic considerations of humor	2
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	2
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	2
Virtuous gratitude as an aim of education	2
Recent developments in the field of moral education—and some prompts for authors, old and new	2
How does moral education promote psychological well-being? A study based on Chinese college students	2
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	2
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	2
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	2
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	2
Teachers’ Professional Ethics by Tirri and Kuusisto	2
A virtue-based model of leadership education	2
Ideological and identity issues in Taiwan’s moral education curriculum	2
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
The moral-behavioral feedback loop: A three-wave longitudinal study of moral disengagement and online altruistic behavior in college students	2
Partisan civility and civic education*	2
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	2
Peer reflection as moral practice: Cultivating purpose and belonging among educators	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
Validation and convergence of the LID scale: Measuring virtue-based leadership in university students	2
The diary of virtues for primary school children: A reflective activity and a qualitative study from the MelArete project	2