Journal of Moral Education

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs41
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education19
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue17
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents17
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development14
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet12
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate12
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers12
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood12
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self12
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation11
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson10
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis10
Institutionalized empathy9
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context9
‘There are many more gaps in moral education. We need to bridge them all’: Interview with Tobias Krettenauer, recipient of the Kuhmerker Career Award 20249
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education9
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?8
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study8
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education7
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)7
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen7
Moral motivations of bystanders in potential sexual assault situations5
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools5
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor5
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students5
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making5
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness5
Mental images and imagination in moral education5
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character4
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis4
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth4
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying4
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education4
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously3
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda3
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope3
Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program3
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions3
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children3
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources3
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives3
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers3
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues3
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks3
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