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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	35
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	26
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	17
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	17
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	14
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	12
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	11
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	10
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	10
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	10
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	10
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	9
Institutionalized empathy	9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	9
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	9
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	9
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	9
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	8
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	8
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
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	6
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	6

Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	5
Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	5
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	4
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	4
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	4
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	4
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	4
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	4
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers	3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	3
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach	3
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	3
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	3
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks	3
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology	2
Personal knowledge: Teaching place-based religious ethics for a climate emergency	2
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	2
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	2
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
Teaching for sustainability and altruism through project-based learning: A framework and case study	2
Asking meaningful life questions in high school: Interviews with alumni of the QUESTion project	2
Commencing character: A case study of character development in college	2
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	2
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	2
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	2
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	2
A virtue-based model of leadership education	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
Social class and prosocial behavior in early adolescence: The moderating roles of family and school factors	1
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	1
The university bundle: Unpacking the sources of undergraduate moral socialization	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1

Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Iris Murdoch and moral education: An initial conceptual framework and a practical example	1
Moral education reform in Japan: Navigating debates and challenges from the MEXT perspective	1
Can exposure to specific acts of compassion and courage elicit moral elevation and related motives?	1
Response to Berkowitz' extended book review: ‘Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues’	1
Partisan civility and civic education*	1
Educational research and the ongoing quest for justice:	1
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	1
Constructing an empathy education system: Values, principles, and approaches	1
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	1
Social justice development among emerging adult students: The influence of families, peers, and religious congregations	1
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	1
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	1
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	1
Citizenship education in Chinese scholarly discourse: Challenging essentialist understandings of what it means to educate citizens for the future	1
The role of mindfulness in future-oriented ethical cognition and moral intensity perceptions	1
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	1
From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models	1
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	1
Linking knowledge justification with peers to the learning of social perspective taking	1
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	1
Revisiting Kohlberg’s account of moral maturity and moral development: The 2024 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	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
Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views	1
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	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
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	1
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	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
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	1