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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development	32
What gratitude looks like from Colombian children’s perspectives	18
The development of moral shame indicates the emergence of moral identity in middle-childhood	15
Associations of parenting styles with moral reasoning in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis	14
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue	12
Can exposure to specific acts of compassion and courage elicit moral elevation and related motives?	11
Virtue developmental considerations of mindfulness	10
Flaws of character: Habituating Aristotelian emotions, reasons and actions	9
A challenge to self-education: The purpose and potential of a database annotating works of art for adults who are existential exemplars for children	9
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	9
Transmission, transactional and reflection model: An approach to implementation of citizenship education in Kenya	8
Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues	8
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	8
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	7
Adolescents’ moral self-cultivation through emulation: Implications for modelling in moral education	6
Character education for students with disabilities	6
The social and moral ecology of education for flourishing	5
The use of biographical narratives in exemplarist moral education	5
Virtue ethics embedded: Aristotelianism in the post-war Japanese moral education	5
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents	5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction	5
‘Good’ citizens or ‘faithful’ Muslims? Contested narratives for citizenship education in Pakistan	5
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood	5
Aretaic considerations of humor	5
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs	5

Issues of validity: Exploring the link between values and behaviour	4
Understanding and cultivation of nature connectedness in China: An analysis of national moral education school textbooks for primary students	4
Iris Murdoch and moral education: An initial conceptual framework and a practical example	4
Harnessing religious teachings to reduce sexual prejudice	4
Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes	4
Virtue and authenticity in civic life	3
Should we stop talking about empathy?: Virtual reality, refugee children and the ethics of technology-mediated moral education	3
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’: Incarcerated parents as moral educators	3
Expansive other-regarding virtues and civic excellence	3
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate	3
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China	3
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer	3
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions	2
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self	2
Humility and competition in Confucianism and Daoism: Lessons for today’s education	2
Moral stories reading with internal negative reinforcement enhance children’s sharing behavior	2
Brazilian children’s theories of empathy: Exploring character through art	2
Probing moral education and pursuing social justice: Review of Nucci, L., & Ilten-Gee, R., Moral education for social justice	2
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson	2
Sociological contributions to moral education	2
Beyond voice: Listening and silence in climate change education	2
David Carr at eighty: Fifty years of dedication to academic research and teaching about philosophy of (moral) education	2
The value of mortality in cultivating moral virtues: Why AI robots cannot replace human–human relationships	2
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers	2
Rediscovering Taiiku: Exploring the moral philosophy of lifelong physical well-being through physical education and sports in Japan	2
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources	2
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse	2
‘Those moments are ineffable’. How creativity experienced through the Arts promotes empathy and compassion	2
The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars	2
In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction	2
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously	2
Virtual reality and character education: Learning opportunities and risks	1
Teaching virtue virtually: Can the virtue of tolerance of diversity of conscience be taught online?	1
Social justice development among emerging adult students: The influence of families, peers, and religious congregations	1
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen	1
Inconvenient truth-tellers: Perceptions of children’s blunt honesty	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
Peer support and prosocial behavior among adolescents from low-income families: A moderated mediation model	1
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet	1
Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Sensegathering and iteration: The evolution of a character education framework in higher education	1
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children	1
Relatable and attainable moral exemplars as sources for moral elevation and pleasantness	1
Analyzing socioscientific issues-based instruction studies focusing on character and value development: A systematic review	1
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues	1
Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg	1
Towards posthuman climate change education	1
Towards a critical character education using virtue ethics philosophy and Bourdieu’s sociology	1
Laying the foundations of phronesis (practical wisdom) through moral dilemma discussions in Chinese primary schools	1

Modelling teachers’ caring behaviour through the lens of high school students	1
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context	1
Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition	1
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education	1
Redesigning schools for effective character education through leadership: The case of PRIMED Institute and vLACE	1
Inspiring or annoying? A new measure of broadening and defensive self-regulatory responses to moral exemplars applied to two real-life scenarios of moral goodness	1
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education	1
Ethical sensitivity of Finnish and Estonian teachers	1
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope	1
Enhancing moral sensitivity in the aftermath of academic misconduct: Results from a quasi-experimental field study	1
Sociology and moral character: Diagnostic, agnostic, or gnostic?	1
Moral injury and moral traps in teaching: Learning from the pandemic	1
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson	1
A comparative investigation of emerging adults’ moral thinking and communication competencies in Taiwan, the USA, and the UK	1
Character education empirical research: A thematic review and comparative content analysis	1