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Values and Moral Education

Values and Moral Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 8.8k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on character education in schools, teacher training, and curriculum implementation. It explores topics such as values education, moral development, citizenship education, and the impact of character education on student behavior and school climate.

  • Values Education
  • Moral Development
  • Teacher Training
  • Citizenship Education
  • Character Building
  • Qualitative Research
  • Curriculum Implementation
  • Student Behavior
  • Literature-based Program
  • School Climate
Research works
8.8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
875
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+61%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Values and Moral Education

Which countries lead Values and Moral Education research?

By volume, Türkiye and Indonesia publish the most (1.4k and 938 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.4k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 938 works
  3. 3 United States 172 works
  4. 4 China 92 works
  5. 5 India 82 works
  6. 6 Philippines 75 works
  7. 7 ?? 67 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 55 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 46 works
  10. 10 Australia 33 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Türkiye: 47.7%Indonesia: 31.5%United States: 5.8%China: 3.1%6 others listed: 12.0%48%largest
Türkiye1,420 · 47.7%Indonesia938 · 31.5%United States172 · 5.8%China92 · 3.1%6 others listed357 · 12.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Values and Moral Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği publishes the most Values and Moral Education research, followed by Indonesia University of Education and Gazi University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 122 works
  2. 2 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 66 works
  3. 3 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 59 works
  4. 4 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 42 works
  5. 5 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 34 works
  6. 6 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 34 works
  7. 7 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 32 works
  8. 8 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 31 works
  9. 9 Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 30 works
  10. 10 Sakarya UniversityTürkiye 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Values and Moral Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Values and Moral Education include Michael Tomasello and Jean Piaget.

  1. 1 Michael Tomasello Germany 135k citations
  2. 2 Jean Piaget Switzerland 104k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Values and Moral Education?

The most cited paper in Values and Moral Education is "The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching" (Jan. K. Nespor, 1987), with 2,067 citations. Next come "Moral development: A review of the theory" (841) and "The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination" (712).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching Jan. K. Nespor · Journal of Curriculum Studies Jul 1987 2,067
2 Moral development: A review of the theory Lawrence Kohlberg, Richard H. Hersh · Theory Into Practice Apr 1977 841
3 The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination Andrei Codrescu, Robert Coles · Academe 1989 712
4 The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games. Hannes Rakoczy, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello · Developmental Psychology May 2008 606
5 Why Metaphors Are Necessary and Not Just Nice 1 Andrew Ortony · Educational Theory 1975 585
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Values and Moral Education research done?

The largest centres of Values and Moral Education research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Bandung (Indonesia) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kastamonu and Malatya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 291 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 154 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 98 works
  4. 4 YogyakartaIndonesia 84 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 58 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 49 works
  7. 7 SemarangIndonesia 46 works
  8. 8 BengkuluIndonesia 45 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 43 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KastamonuTR · 21.0 works41×
  2. MalatyaTR · 26.8 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Values and Moral Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Values and Moral Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Birmingham, Indonesia University of Education and Gazi University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 14.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Birmin…Yogyakarta State Uni…Gazi UniversityIndonesia University…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 58.055.9%4.6×9 -9.3%
2Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 57.57.4%21.7×66 +298.2%
3Gazi UniversityTürkiye 57.58.4%41.4×59 +29.3%
4Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 53.510.2%24.1×42 +176.7%
5Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 51.814.3%40.9×32 +179.4%
6Marmara UniversityTürkiye 48.711.1%28.4×31 +33.3%
7Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 48.011.2%40.6×30 +43.5%
8Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 46.69.3%8.0×34 +579.4%
9Yıldız Technical UniversityTürkiye 45.88.3%30.3×24 +34.1%
10Sakarya UniversityTürkiye 45.67.4%32.3×27 +94.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Values and Moral Education, country by country

Is Values and Moral Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Values and Moral Education.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Values and Moral Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Values and Moral Education0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Values and Moral Education over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Values and Moral Education10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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