Journal of Research in Character Education
Editors: Drs. Marvin Berkowitz and
Stephen Sherblom,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
College of Education
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The mission of the Journal of Research in Character Education is to
disseminate high quality scholarship concerning character
education, broadly defined. The JRCE serves an audience of
researchers, scholars, policy makers, teacher educators, and
school practitioners concerned with the development of
positive character in young people. The editors define
character education broadly to include most attempts to
enhance the positive development of youth, especially in
educational settings and school communities. Different
theoretical approaches and educational philosophies are
welcome. The journal is a forum for research reports,
theoretical discussion, practical application, intellectual
challenge, and scholarly reflection, as well as book reviews
and other resource evaluations.
The Journal of
Research in Character Education welcomes an array of
manuscript types, and articles may well cover more than one
of the following areas, although the primary focus is on
school-based outcome research:
- The research
side of character education – quantitative or
qualitative reports of a character education research
program, focusing on research results;
- The method side
of character education research – explanation and
discussion of new or unusual educational practices,
and/or critique of currently used research or evaluation
methods and analysis techniques;
- The school side
of character education – first person accounts,
reflections, and advice from the field on organizational
management, program implementation, community
involvement, lessons learned;
- The
philosophical side of character theory – reflection on
the discourse used in character education, definitions,
assumptions, arguments; exploring the philosophical
tradition from which current incarnations of character
and virtue stem;
- The moral
psychology side of character development – models of
character, of self, motivation, the development of
reason, choice, learning, responsibility, identity
formation, and healthy human development.
Submission of
manuscripts and correspondence with authors will ideally be
done electronically. Manuscripts and inquiries can be sent
to the editors at jrce@umsl.edu
All manuscripts
should follow the American Psychological Association style
guidelines (5th ed.), be double spaced, with page numbers, and the author’s
name only on the title page. The title page should include
the name of the article, the authors, contact information,
especially email, and their respective affiliations.
Manuscript length is flexible given the needs of the work
itself. JRCE utilizes blind review by two or three outside
reviewers supplemented by review by one of the journal
editors. Our manuscript acceptance rate is approximately
30%.