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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	42
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	21
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	21
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	19
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	15
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	15
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	15
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self	15
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	13
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	13
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	12
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	12
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	12
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	11
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	10
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	10
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	10
Beyond the self: Self-transcendent emotions for moral character development in the classroom	10
‘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	9
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	9
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	8
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	7
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
The 10-item moral outrage scale: Development, psychometric properties, and associations with parenting behavior and peer relationships	7

Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	6
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	6
Education and the culture of giving: Rural evidence from Bangladesh	6
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	6
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	6
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	6
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	5
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
Infusing critical moral education into English language teaching through globalizing literature pedagogy in the Chinese EFL classroom	5
How do Chinese volunteer and non-volunteer student teachers differ in their life purpose?	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	5
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	5
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	5
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	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
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives	4
Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program	3
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	3
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	3
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology	3
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	3
Asking meaningful life questions in high school: Interviews with alumni of the QUESTion project	3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	3
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	3
The educational salience of emulation as a moral 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
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	3
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	3
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	3
A virtue-based model of leadership education	3
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
Ideological and identity issues in Taiwan’s moral education curriculum	2
The diary of virtues for primary school children: A reflective activity and a qualitative study from the MelArete project	2
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	2
‘Because they are a part of life:’ Children’s ideas about the welfare, rights, and protection of animals and ecosystems	2
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	2

Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	2
Partisan civility and civic education*	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
How American college students identify and resolve their moral challenges	2
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
Teachers’ Professional Ethics by Tirri and Kuusisto	2
How does moral education promote psychological well-being? A study based on Chinese college students	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	2
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	2
Recent developments in the field of moral education—and some prompts for authors, old and new	2
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	2
Personal knowledge: Teaching place-based religious ethics for a climate emergency	2
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	2
Teaching for sustainability and altruism through project-based learning: A framework and case study	2
Aretaic considerations of humor	2
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	2
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	2
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	2
Citizenship education in Chinese scholarly discourse: Challenging essentialist understandings of what it means to educate citizens for the future	2
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	2