OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Moral Education is 2. 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
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education	9
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
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education	8
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
The moral teacher in global transition: The 2022 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture	7
Character education for students with disabilities	6
Adolescents’ moral self-cultivation through emulation: Implications for modelling in moral education	6
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
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

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
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
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