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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral Education is 3. 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
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	12
What does character education mean to character education experts? A prototype analysis of expert opinions	12
Cultivating character through physical education using memetic, progressive and transformative practices in schools	11
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	11
Relatable and attainable moral exemplars as sources for moral elevation and pleasantness	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
Critical harmony: A goal for deliberative civic education	4
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
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
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