Narváez Darcia - Handbook of moral and character education

Second Edition

There is widespread agreement that schools should contribute to the moral development and character formation of their students. In fact, 80% of US states currently have mandates regarding character education. However, the pervasiveness of the support for moral and character education masks a high degree of controversy surrounding its meaning and methods. The purpose of this handbook is to supplant the prevalent ideological rhetoric of the field with a comprehensive, research-oriented volume that both describes the extensive changes that have occurred over the last 15 years and points forward to the future. Now in its second edition, this book includes the latest applications of developmental and cognitive psychology to moral and character education from preschool to college settings, and much more.

Larry Nucci is Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Human Development.

Darcia Narvaez is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and Executive Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

Tobias Krettenauer is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Associate Editor of the Journal of Moral Education and Consulting Editor for Child Development.

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Second Edition

Edited by Larry Nucci, Darcia Narvaez,
and Tobias Krettenauer

Second edition published 2014
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Handbook of moral and character education / edited by Larry Nucci, Tobias Krettenauer, Darcia Narvaez Second edition.

pages cm. (Educational psychology handbook)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Moral educationHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Personality developmentHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Nucci, Larry P. II. Krettenauer, Tobias. III. Narvaez, Darcia.
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ISBN: 978-0-415-53238-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-11489-6 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

Larry Nucci is Adjunct Professor of Human Development in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published extensively in the areas of social and moral development and directs the Domain Based Moral Education (DBME) lab at UC Berkeley. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Human Development, the author of Education in the Moral Domain (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Nice is Not Enough: Facilitating Moral Development (Pearson, 2009) and editor of four other volumes including Moral Development and Character Education: A Dialogue (McCutchan, 1989) and Conflict, Contradiction and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education (Erlbaum, 2005).

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. After college, she was a church musician, K-12 music teacher, middle school Spanish teacher and owned her own business. She also earned a Masters of Divinity. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota, where she became a tenured faculty member and was the executive director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Development. She publishes extensively on moral development and education. Her books include Moral Development in the Professions (with Rest; Erlbaum, 1994); Postconventional Moral Thinking (with Rest, Bebeau, & Thoma; Erlbaum, 1999); Moral Development, Self and Identity (with Lapsley; Erlbaum, 2004); Personality, Identity and Character (with Lapsley; Cambridge University Press, 2009); Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development (with Panksepp, Schore, & Gleason; Oxford University Press, 2013); Ancestral Landscapes in Human Evolution: Culture, Childrearing and Social Wellbeing (with valentino, Fuentes, McKenna, & Gray; Oxford University Press, 2014); and Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom (Norton, 2014). She is Executive Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

Tobias Krettenauer is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and earned his Habilitation degree at Humboldt University Berlin. His research on morality, self, and emotions has been funded by several grants from the German Research Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and has been published in internationally renowned journals. Currently, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Moral Education and Consulting Editor for the journal Child Development.

Noriyuki Araki is Professor of Education at Fukuyama University, Hiroshima, Japan.