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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education41
Purpose development among Finnish adolescents20
Virtue science and productive theoretical neutrality: Review of Wright, J. C., Warren, M., & Snow, N. Understanding virtue20
Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development17
A comprehensive meta-analysis of character education programs14
Ecologising moral education in the anthropocene: Learning to be authentic non-self13
Just environments foster character: A longitudinal assessment of school climate13
Against neutrality: Response to Cokelet13
Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers12
Emeritus Professor Peter. D. Tomlinson12
From concept to capacity: Evidence of school leaders activating the four functions of Phronesis11
Demystifying character education for the Singapore context11
Does a change in moral neutralization from early to mid-adolescence predict a change in delinquency?10
Integrating ethical knowledge into teacher education: A framework for moral formation10
Responding to the moral complexities of climate change education through intergenerational dialogue in teacher education10
Austrian secondary school teachers’ views on character education: Quantitative insights from a mixed-methods study9
‘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
The moral and political dimensions of education: Response to Hansen8
Reading the Nicomachean Ethics with Goffman8
Mental images and imagination in moral education7
From puppets to principles: Children’s theatre and the foundations of ethical stakeholder awareness7
How to navigate life: The new science of finding your way in school, career, and beyond7
School for sedition? Climate justice, citizenship and education7
Developing virtue-based leadership education: The Leaders of Character Program at Francisco de Vitoria University (Spain)7
Socialization and personal values of teachers in general education, special education, and extracurricular education schools6
Artificial intelligence as a moral mentor6
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth5
Desperate measures: A response to Daniel Davis5
Integrating principled innovation as a character development framework in education coursework5
Enduring aspirations and moral learning: A longitudinal study of U.S. College students5
Neoliberal personhood as exception: A critical analysis of textbooks of China’s moral education5
High school biology students’ use of values in their moral argumentation and decision-making5
The honest truth about lying parents: A qualitative study and taxonomy of parental lying5
The meaning of life in China’s civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction5
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character5
Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson4
Learning to own professional practice through character – The case of the junior British Army officer4
Beyond nannying: Virtue crafting in Chinese higher education4
Contextualizing climate change education: taking nature seriously4
Educating children as sustainable citizen-consumers: A qualitative content analysis of sustainability education resources4
Japanese moral education at the intersection of philosophy, science, and politics4
Patriotism in moral education: Toward a rational approach in China4
Distributive justice and development: Toward an integrative understanding of reward and responsibility distributions4
Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda4
The centrality of care ethics in narratives of primary school homeroom teachers3
Globalization and conflicts in moral education in Japan: Historical perspectives3
Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education3
Peer trust and prosocial behavior among rural left-behind adolescents: The negative moderating role of hope3
Existential considerations: Review of Gary, K. H. Why boredom matters: Education, leisure, and the quest for a meaningful life3
Self-regulation through storytelling: A demonstration study detailing the educational book Game On for resilience building in early school children3
Reimagining higher education: A response to Edward Brooks3
Mechanisms by which narrative media facilitates practical wisdom in audience members: Insights from media psychology3
‘Little Hero’, a web-based intervention to promote moral values among children: A study of its development and effectiveness3
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach3
Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program3
Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues3
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life: Interdisciplinary perspectives on civic virtue3
Manifestations of purpose in life among Finnish student teachers3
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