Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (UK)

Center for Character & Citizenship (UMSL, US)

Center on Adolescence (Stanford, US)

Center for the Study of Ethical Development (Alabama, US)

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (Harvard, US)

Rock Ethics Institute (Penn State, US)

The Program for Leadership and Character (Wake Forest, US)

The Institute for Research on Youth Thriving and Evaluation (Montclair, US)

Thank you so much for your answer, Hyemin! When you list these centers, what criteria you were thinking that make them as “ infulencial” :-)

Thanks a lot,

Yan

Reputation among scholars working in the same field.

The overall visibility and recognition of center members in the field.

Publications by the center members + citations.

Whether they have developed tools or programs widely employed across researchers and educators.

Great answer! Thanks a lot🤝

Jubilee Centre (Birmingham), Aretai Centre (Genoa), Center for the Study of Moral Development (Alabama), Human Flourishing Program/Center (Harvard), Practical Wisdom Centre (Chicago), Center for Research on Adolescence (Stanford), Singapore Centre for Citizenship and Character Education,  Civic Humanism Centre (University of Navarra, Spain), Program/Center for Leadership and Character (Wake Forest U.), Center for Character and Citizenship (St. Louis).  I would also mention the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (U. of Virginia), although it is more sociological than educational.

There are some universities that are very strong in this area but have not established formal centres, for example The University of Humanistic Studies (Utrecht, Holland).

Dear KK, Thank you so much for providing the list, much appreciated! Yan

To add:

https://www.ufv.es/centro-de-educacion-en-virtudes-y-valores/

(Centre for Education in Virtues and Values, Madrid, Spain)

https://www.cerc.cz/

(Centre for Character Development, Hradec Kralove, Czechia)

and I would like to mention also our Department of Educational Studies at Trnava University which is the leading institution for the character education in general and ethical education as a school subject in Slovakia

(https://pdf.truni.sk/katedry/kps/publikacna-cinnost)

M.