OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral Education is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	28
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	24
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	24
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	19
Moral formation in higher education: Conversations from an emerging field	19
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	17
A narrative case study: Parental views on the enactment of character education in Islamic boarding schools	14
Moral education at university: Potentialities and gaps	14
Adults’ perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development	14
Holistic approach in wisdom research is necessary: Response to Akrivou and González	14
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self	13
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis	12
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	12
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	11
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	11
Ten reasons why colleges and universities should educate character	10
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	10
Teaching virtue literacy: A strategy for character education in the university	10
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	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
Integrative character education: Valuing both epiphanic and incremental routes to moral growth	9
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	9
The pedagogical hard problem of generative AI: Socratic countermeasures	9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	9
Beyond the self: Self-transcendent emotions for moral character development in the classroom	8

Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study	8
The use of the LID scale in virtue-based leadership education for university students: An exploratory study	8
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	7
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond	7
Education and the culture of giving: Rural evidence from Bangladesh	7
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	7
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
The 10-item moral outrage scale: Development, psychometric properties, and associations with parenting behavior and peer relationships	7
Locus of control differentiation as intellectual virtue	6
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	6
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	6
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	6
Living together in diversity: A comparative study of citizenship education curricula in Sri Lanka and Australia	6
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	6
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
Inspiring moral motivation in teacher education: A phenomenographic study of neo-Socratic dialogue as wisdom pedagogy	6
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	5
Trends in youth civic engagement before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Phronesis as unitary ethical expertise: Educational implications for early moral development	5
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	5
Infusing critical moral education into English language teaching through globalizing literature pedagogy in the Chinese EFL classroom	5
Dawn Schrader	5
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	5
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics	4
How do Chinese volunteer and non-volunteer student teachers differ in their life purpose?	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	4