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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	35
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	26
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	17
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	17
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	16
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	12
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	11
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	11
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	11
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	10
Institutionalized empathy	10
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	10
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation	10
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	10
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?	9
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	8
‘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	8
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education	7
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness	7
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman	7
Mental images and imagination in moral education	7
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools	6
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)	6

Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character	6
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework	5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor	5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students	5
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making	5
Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations	5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis	4
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth	4
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	4
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	4
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying	4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education	4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	4
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda	4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	4
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	3
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	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
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
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	3
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life	3
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
The educational salience of emulation as a moral virtue	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
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue	2
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness	2
‘Because they are a part of life:’ Children’s ideas about the welfare, rights, and protection of animals and ecosystems	2
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	2
Aretaic considerations of humor	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
A virtue-based model of leadership education	2
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks	2
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China	2
Biology-based mimetic learning as a moral response to environmental challenges	2
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	2
How American college students identify and resolve their moral challenges	2
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	2
Preservice ethics teachers’ perceptions of AI ethics education	2
Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents	2

Commencing character: A case study of character development in college	2
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers	2
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth	2
Using cinema to enhance moral reasoning and cognitive complexity of Amazonian indigenous leaders	2
Partisan civility and civic education*	1
Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	1
Moral education reform in Japan: Navigating debates and challenges from the MEXT perspective	1
Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views	1
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	1
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	1
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	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
Revisiting Kohlberg’s account of moral maturity and moral development: The 2024 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	1
Response to Berkowitz' extended book review: ‘Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues’	1
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	1
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	1
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	1
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	1
Motivating faculty to foster character education across the university: The experience of Universidad Austral	1
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	1
‘That is when justice becomes complete.’ Exemplars’ perspectives on forgiveness as a civic virtue in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1
Social class and prosocial behavior in early adolescence: The moderating roles of family and school factors	1
Resurgence of Confucian education in contemporary China: Parental involvement, moral anxiety, and the pedagogy of memorisation	1
The JME’s 50-year contribution to moral education: A content analysis 1971-2021	1
The role of mindfulness in future-oriented ethical cognition and moral intensity perceptions	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Living well in extended reality: Training phronesis and Socratic humility in XR	1
Iris Murdoch and moral education: An initial conceptual framework and a practical example	1
Citizenship education in Chinese scholarly discourse: Challenging essentialist understandings of what it means to educate citizens for the future	1
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	1
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	1
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	1
Social justice development among emerging adult students: The influence of families, peers, and religious congregations	1