The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume I (eBook, PDF)

Conceptualizing and Defining Character
Redaktion: Matthews, Michael D.; Lerner, Richard M.

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Produktbeschreibung

These volumes present cutting-edge scholarship about the concept of character across the life span, the developmental and contextual bases of character, and the key organizations of societal sectors, within and across nations, that promote character development in individuals, families, and communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003851165
• Artikelnr.: 70001296

Autorenporträt

Michael D. Matthews, Ph.D., is Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He has been a military psychologist since 1980. In the past 40 years, he has served on active duty as an Air Force officer (as a behavioral sciences officer), as a psychology professor at Drury University, as a research psychologist for the Army Research Institute, and, since 2000, in his current capacity at West Point. Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D., is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. He went from kindergarten through Ph.D. within the New York City public schools, completing his doctorate at the City University of New York in 1971 in developmental psychology. Lerner has more than 800 scholarly publications, including more than 80 authored or edited books.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Introduction 1. Contemporary Character Development Scholarship:
Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives; Section 2:
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Character Development 2. Epigenetics and
Character Virtue Development 3. Character Virtues in Developmental Science
4. The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue 5. PRIMED for
Character Education: Deriving Design Principles for Effective Practice from
Empirical Evidence 6. Changing the Character of Schools: Promoting Servant
Leadership Virtues to Solve Internationally Relevant Problems in Education
7. Educating for Character in the Sexual Domain: Why It Matters and How to
Do It 8. Character Development in Higher Education 9. The Use and
Inculcation of Character in Law: Challenges Reflected Throughout United
States' Legal Systems 10: Character Development in Leadership and
Organizational Studies 11: Contact with the vir fortis: Character Education
and the Roman Practice of Declamation 12. Character Virtue Development in
Military Science 13. The Philosophical Foundations of Character Virtue
Development 14. Political Science Approaches to the Character Virtues 15.
Character Virtues in Positive Psychology 16. Character-Minded Evaluation:
Recognizing and Activating the Essential Role of Character in High-Quality
Evaluation 17. The Culture of Character: Sociological Perspectives 18.
Theological Perspectives on Beliefs and Communities of Practice: Virtue
Systems as an Integrative Approach for Psychologists; Section 3: Instances
of Character Development 19. Developing Civic Character 20. Courage: Moral
and Physical Dimensions 21. Justice: Where Aristotle and Kohlberg Meet 22.
On Forgiveness and Character Development: Description, Explanation, and
Optimization 23. Gratitude: From Relational Emotion to Contextualized
Virtue Inclusive of Indebtedness 24. Dynamics of Intellectual Humility 25.
Intellectual Virtues 26. Kindness: A Path to Human Growth and Connectedness
27. The Development of Morality and the Character System: Implications for
the Notion of Virtue 28. Personal Liberty, Mutual Respect, and Tolerance
29. Feeling Good and Feeling Thankful: The Role of Positive Emotions in
Sustaining Early Prosocial Behavior 30. Purpose through the Lens of
Character Virtue Development