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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Moral Education is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	19
Commencing character: A case study of character development in college	16
Improved model exploration for the relationship between moral foundations and moral judgment development using Bayesian Model Averaging	14
What does character education mean to character education experts? A prototype analysis of expert opinions	12
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	12
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	11
Relatable and attainable moral exemplars as sources for moral elevation and pleasantness	11
Cultivating character through physical education using memetic, progressive and transformative practices in schools	11
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	9
Moral education in mainland China today: A bio-ecological systems analysis	9
Social media as inadvertent educators	8
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	8
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	8
Social class and prosocial behavior in early adolescence: The moderating roles of family and school factors	8
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	7
Forgiveness as a character strength: Toward a developmental model and research agenda	7
From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models	7
Ethical sensitivity of Finnish and Estonian teachers	6
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	6
The development of moral shame indicates the emergence of moral identity in middle-childhood	6
Mental images and imagination in moral education	6
Adolescents’ moral self-cultivation through emulation: Implications for modelling in moral education	6
The harms of unattainable pedagogical exemplars on social media	5
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	5
Chaos or coherence? Future directions for moral education	5

Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	5
Awaiting the Owl of Minerva: Some thoughts on the present and future of moral education	5
Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	5
The true self as essentially morally good: An obstacle to virtue development?	4
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	4
Introduction to the special issue: Research in morality as an integrated, interdisciplinary domain of inquiry	4
Critical harmony: A goal for deliberative civic education	4
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	3
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	3
Practical wisdom: How do personal virtue beliefs and contextual factors interact in adolescents’ moral decision-making?	3
Teaching the comicYummyto engage adolescent empathy, critical reflection, and community awareness	3
Peer support and prosocial behavior among adolescents from low-income families: A moderated mediation model	3
Second-order theory of mind as a predictor of children’s guilt proneness	3
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	3
Sensegathering and iteration: The evolution of a character education framework in higher education	3
What gratitude looks like from Colombian children’s perspectives	3
The compatibility of character education and citizenship education in Aristotelian approaches to moral development	2
Towards a post-democratic era? Moral education against new forms of authoritarianism	2
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	2
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	2
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	2
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	2
Considering morally relevant theory of mind through a Social Domain Theory perspective	2
Too much of a good thing: Differentiating intellectual humility from servility in higher education	2
Analyzing socioscientific issues-based instruction studies focusing on character and value development: A systematic review	2
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	2
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’: Incarcerated parents as moral educators	2
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	2
A virtue-based model of leadership education	2
Special issue on exemplars and emulation in moral education: Guest editorial	2
Honesty: Respect for the right not to be deceived	2
Partisan civility and civic education*	2
Institutionalized empathy	2
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	2
Why should intimate partner violence prevention be integrated in sex education?	2
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	1
The university bundle: Unpacking the sources of undergraduate moral socialization	1
Social justice development among emerging adult students: The influence of families, peers, and religious congregations	1
Inspiring or annoying? A new measure of broadening and defensive self-regulatory responses to moral exemplars applied to two real-life scenarios of moral goodness	1
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	1
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	1
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	1
The social and moral ecology of education for flourishing	1
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	1
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	1
Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	1
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	1
Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views	1
Virtual reality and character education: Learning opportunities and risks	1
Moral injury and moral traps in teaching: Learning from the pandemic	1

Probing moral education and pursuing social justice: Review of Nucci, L., & Ilten-Gee, R., Moral education for social justice	1
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	1
Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues	1
A challenge to self-education: The purpose and potential of a database annotating works of art for adults who are existential exemplars for children	1
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	1
Citizenship, character, sustainability: Differences and commonalities in three fields of education	1
Linking knowledge justification with peers to the learning of social perspective taking	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	1
A comparative investigation of emerging adults’ moral thinking and communication competencies in Taiwan, the USA, and the UK	1
‘Those moments are ineffable’. How creativity experienced through the Arts promotes empathy and compassion	1
Character education for students with disabilities	1
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	1