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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	56
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	27
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	26
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	24
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	24
Holistic approach in wisdom research is necessary: Response to Akrivou and González	19
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	17
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self	17
Adults’ perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development	16
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	14
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	14
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	14
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	13
Ten reasons why colleges and universities should educate character	12
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	12
Teaching virtue literacy: A strategy for character education in the university	11
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
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	10
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	9
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	9
The pedagogical hard problem of generative AI: Socratic countermeasures	9
‘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
The use of the LID scale in virtue-based leadership education for university students: An exploratory study	9
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	8

Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	8
Education and the culture of giving: Rural evidence from Bangladesh	8
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	8
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	8
The 10-item moral outrage scale: Development, psychometric properties, and associations with parenting behavior and peer relationships	7
Living together in diversity: A comparative study of citizenship education curricula in Sri Lanka and Australia	7
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	7
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	7
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	6
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	6
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	6
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	6
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	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
Infusing critical moral education into English language teaching through globalizing literature pedagogy in the Chinese EFL classroom	6
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	6
Dawn Schrader	5
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	5
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	5
How do Chinese volunteer and non-volunteer student teachers differ in their life purpose?	5
Phronesis as unitary ethical expertise: Educational implications for early moral development	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
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	5
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	5
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks	4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	4
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	4
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives	3
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	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
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
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
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	3
How American college students identify and resolve their moral challenges	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	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
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	3

Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Negotiating morality: Religion, education, and moral foundations in a dual-cultural context	3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers	3
Teachers’ Professional Ethics by Tirri and Kuusisto	2
The diary of virtues for primary school children: A reflective activity and a qualitative study from the MelArete project	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
Peer reflection as moral practice: Cultivating purpose and belonging among educators	2
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	2
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	2
Ideological and identity issues in Taiwan’s moral education curriculum	2
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	2
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	2
Aretaic considerations of humor	2
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	2
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	2
Asking meaningful life questions in high school: Interviews with alumni of the QUESTion project	2
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	2
A virtue-based model of leadership education	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
Citizenship education in Chinese scholarly discourse: Challenging essentialist understandings of what it means to educate citizens for the future	2
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	2
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
Exploring the relationship between civic literacy and social sensitivity in Indonesian elementary schools	2
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	2
‘Because they are a part of life:’ Children’s ideas about the welfare, rights, and protection of animals and ecosystems	2
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	2
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	2
Recent developments in the field of moral education—and some prompts for authors, old and new	2
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
Partisan civility and civic education*	2
Sacred moments as a source of life altering change: Insights from psychological theory and research	1
Introducing a method for integrating character education in science instruction	1
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	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
How to raise a moral teen: Caregiving styles of moral parents	1
Epiphanies, life-affirmation, and virtue	1
The role of mindfulness in future-oriented ethical cognition and moral intensity perceptions	1
Moral beauty, natural beauty, and artistic beauty cause self-transcendent emotions	1
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	1
Strengthening character among frontline health workers delivering care to underserved communities in Sindh, Pakistan	1
Educational research and the ongoing quest for justice:	1
Advancing moral sensitivity education for biomedical students, incorporating values and perspectives	1
Introduction to special issue: Local cultures and global developments in moral and citizenship education in East Asia	1
Moral education reform in Japan: Navigating debates and challenges from the MEXT perspective	1
Global innovations in character development	1
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	1
The role of morality in risky driving behaviors of young adults: A moderation model	1
Linking knowledge justification with peers to the learning of social perspective taking	1
Can exposure to specific acts of compassion and courage elicit moral elevation and related motives?	1
Relatable and attainable moral exemplars as sources for moral elevation and pleasantness	1
‘That is when justice becomes complete.’ Exemplars’ perspectives on forgiveness as a civic virtue in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views	1
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	1
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	1
Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues	1
Cultivating virtue literacy in visual arts classes: Reflection on a fine-arts intervention aimed at moral education in a lower-secondary school in Iceland	1
Constructing an empathy education system: Values, principles, and approaches	1
Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Revisiting Kohlberg’s account of moral maturity and moral development: The 2024 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	1
Exploring teacher perspectives on integrating character education into K-3 computer science curriculum	1
Empowering students, enhancing communities: Integrating Service-Learning as a character education methodology in a Chilean school	1
‘Call it what you want’: Ethical value in the lyrics of Taylor Swift and its educational application for betterment	1
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	1
College student volunteering as a channel toward the virtue of generosity in higher education	1
More than a mindset: Designing cultures where purpose can take root	1
Living well in extended reality: Training phronesis and Socratic humility in XR	1
How does moral education promote psychological well-being? A study based on Chinese college students	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Ideological deconstruction of the Confucian revival in Chinese education: A search for democratic civics education	1
From moral adaptation to ethical criticism: Analyzing developments in Singapore’s character education programme	1
Practical wisdom, emerging technologies, and AI	1
The university bundle: Unpacking the sources of undergraduate moral socialization	1
Motivating faculty to foster character education across the university: The experience of Universidad Austral	1