OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	34
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	22
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	15
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	15
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	14
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	11
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	11
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	10
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	10
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	9
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	8
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	8
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	8
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	8
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	8
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	7
Institutionalized empathy	7
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	6
Mental images and imagination in moral education	6
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	5
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	5

Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	5
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	4
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	4
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	4
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	4
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	4
Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	3
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	3
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	3
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	2
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	2
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	2
Teaching for sustainability and altruism through project-based learning: A framework and case study	2
‘Because they are a part of life:’ Children’s ideas about the welfare, rights, and protection of animals and ecosystems	2
Aretaic considerations of humor	2
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	2
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	2
Existential considerations: Review of Kevin Hood Gary (2022) Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life . New York, New York: Cambridge	2
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	2
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	2
Asking meaningful life questions in high school: Interviews with alumni of the QUESTion project	2
Personal knowledge: Teaching place-based religious ethics for a climate emergency	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology	2
Commencing character: A case study of character development in college	2
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	2
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	2
A virtue-based model of leadership education	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	2
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	2
Considering morally relevant theory of mind through a Social Domain Theory perspective	2
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	1
Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views	1
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1
The role of mindfulness in future-oriented ethical cognition and moral intensity perceptions	1
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	1
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	1
Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	1
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	1

Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	1
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	1
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	1
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	1
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	1
Social class and prosocial behavior in early adolescence: The moderating roles of family and school factors	1
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	1
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	1
Iris Murdoch and moral education: An initial conceptual framework and a practical example	1
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	1
Can exposure to specific acts of compassion and courage elicit moral elevation and related motives?	1
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	1
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	1
Partisan civility and civic education*	1
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	1
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	1
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	1
Revisiting Kohlberg’s account of moral maturity and moral development: The 2024 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	1
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Social justice development among emerging adult students: The influence of families, peers, and religious congregations	1
Response to Berkowitz' extended book review: ‘Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues’	1
‘That is when justice becomes complete.’ Exemplars’ perspectives on forgiveness as a civic virtue in post-genocide Rwanda	1