The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development

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.

Volume I

Section 1: Introduction

1. Contemporary Character Development Scholarship: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives

Michael D. Matthews and Richard M Lerner

Section 2: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Character Development

2. Epigenetics and Character Virtue Development

David S. Moore

3. Character Virtues in Developmental Science

David C. Witherington and Maria McCready

4. The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

James J. Heckman, Bridget Galaty, and Haihan Tian

5. PRIMED for Character Education: Deriving Design Principles for Effective Practice from Empirical Evidence

Marvin W. Berkowitz and Melinda C. Bier

6. Changing the Character of Schools: Promoting Servant Leadership Virtues to Solve Internationally Relevant Problems in Education

Melinda C. Bier, Deborah S. O’Reilly, Peter Kingori, Satabdi Samtani, and Marvin W. Berkowitz

7. Educating for Character in the Sexual Domain: Why It Matters and How to Do It

Thomas Lickona

8. Character Development in Higher Education

Edward Brooks and Tom Harrison

9. The Use and Inculcation of Character in Law: Challenges Reflected Throughout United States’ Legal Systems

Roger J.R. Levesque

10: Character Development in Leadership and Organizational Studies

Patrick J. Sweeney

11: Contact with the vir fortis: Character Education and the Roman Practice of Declamation

Anthony Zupanic

12. Character Virtue Development in Military Science

Andrew Farina and Chaveso Cook

13. The Philosophical Foundations of Character Virtue Development

Andrew Peterson and Kristján Kristjánsson

14. Political Science Approaches to the Character Virtues

Hugh Liebert

15. Character Virtues in Positive Psychology

Robert E. McGrath

16. Character-Minded Evaluation: Recognizing and Activating the Essential Role of Character in High-Quality Evaluation

Jennifer Brown Urban, Miriam R. Linver, Jane Buckley, Monica Hargraves and Thomas Archibald

17. The Culture of Character: Sociological Perspectives

Jeffrey S. Dill

18. Theological Perspectives on Beliefs and Communities of Practice: Virtue Systems as an Integrative Approach for Psychologists

Pamela Ebstyne King, Rebecca E. Baer, and Tyler S. Greenway

Section 3: Instances of Character Development

19. Developing Civic Character

Sunah Hyun, Diane M. Ryan, and Peter Levine

20. Courage: Moral and Physical Dimensions

Erin I. O’Connell, Roshni Joseph, Addison Shemin, and Jason Woodruff, Colin Simsarian, Francesco Yepez Coello, and Bruce Bongar

21. Fairness

Juan Pablo Dabdoub, Marvin Berkowitz, Natasha Keces, and Aitor R. Salaverría

22. On Forgiveness and Character Development: Description, Explanation, and Optimization

Jonathan M. Tirrell

23. Gratitude: From Relational Emotion to Contextualized Virtue Inclusive of Indebtedness

Jenae M. Nelson, Jo-Ann Tsang, and Sarah A. Schnitker

24. Dynamics of Intellectual Humility

Elise Murray Dykhuis

25. Intellectual Virtues

Ben Kotzee and Jason Baehr

26. Kindness: A Path to Human Growth and Connectedness

Tina Malti and Tyler Colasante

27. The Development of Morality and the Character System: Implications for the Notion of Virtue

Larry Nucci

28. Personal Liberty, Mutual Respect, and Tolerance

David Lundie, Lee Shannon, and Antonio Zuffiano

29. Feeling Good and Feeling Thankful: The Role of Positive Emotions in Sustaining Early Prosocial Behavior

Stefen Beeler-Duden and Amrisha Vaish

30. Purpose through the Lens of Character Virtue Development

Kendall Cotton Bronk

Afterword

William Damon

Volume II

Section 1: Moderators and Covariates of Character Development

1. Culturally Sensitive and Contextually Adapted Exemplars of Character Development: Implications for Reimagining Frameworks

Velma McBride Murry, Rachel Hanebutt, Hyemin Han, Marlena Debreaux and Juliet Nyanamba

2. The Role of Grit in Achievement and Resilience: A Comprehensive Review

Ryan Erbe, Ray Fredrick, Yasmine Kalkstein, Michael D. Matthews, Orin Strauchler,

and Elizabeth Wetzler

3. Organizational Grit as a Cultural Perspective

Celeste K. Raver and Andrew Ledford

4. Hope for the Future

Nancy E. Snow

5. Parenting as Panacea: Toward Generational Advancements of Early Character Virtues and Eventual Civic Responsibility

Marc H. Bornstein

6. Resilience

Andrew C. Pool, Samantha Costello, and Kenneth R. Ginsburg

7. Self-regulation: A character development perspective

Christopher M. Napolitano, Madison N. Sewell, Heejun Yoon, Christopher Elmi

and Brent W. Roberts

Section 2: Threats to Character Development

8. Can Exemplars Promote Character Development in the Wake of Adversity?

Sara Mendonca, Michael Brady and Eranda Jayawickreme

9. Why Good People Fail at Character: The Character Risk Model

Michael D. Matthews, Andrew Farina, Patrick J. Sweeney and Jarle Eid

10. What’s Wrong with the World Anyway? Psychological Origins of a Collective Failure of Humanity

Robert J. Sternberg

11. Democratic Character and Virtues: Developmental Responses to Group Conflict and Oppression

David Moshman

12. Racism and Positive Youth Development

Eleanor K. Seaton and Rebecca M. B. White

Section 3: Contexts of Character Development

13. The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues

James Arthur

14. The Center for Character and Citizenship

Marvin W. Berkowitz and Melinda C. Bier

15. The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Andrew C. Pool, Elyse Salek, Joanna Lee Williams, Eden Pontz, Jillian L. Baker

and Kenneth R. Ginsburg

16. The Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development (IARYD): Understanding What Goes Right in the Lives of Youth

Mary H. Buckingham, Paul Chase, Dian Yu, Jonathan M. Tirrell, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Kristina Schmid Callina, Yerin Park, Carolina Goncalves, Natasha Keces and Roya Abbasi-Asl

17. Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing: A Cautionary Tale

Nancy E. Snow

18. The Oxford Character Project

Edward Brooks, Rebecca Park and Anjali Sarker

19. The Montclair State University Institute for Research on Youth Thriving and Evaluation

Jennifer Brown Urban and Miriam R. Linver

20. The Stanford Center on Adolescence

Heather Malin

21. Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character: A Case Study

Michael Lamb and Kenneth Townsend

22. The Application of Character Measurement and Development within Organizations

Brian Davidson and Troy Morgan

23. International Development Agencies and their Emerging Role in Adolescent Character Development: Reflections and Opportunities

Prerna Banati, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Nicola Jones, Keenan Madi and Agnieszka Malachowska

24. International Faith-based Organizations: Integrating Science and Ideology

Alistair Sim, Elizabeth Dowling, Jonathan M. Tirrell, Jacqueline V. Lerner and Kate Williams

25. Children’s Media and Development: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Considerations and Potential

Lacey J. Hilliard, AnneMarie K. McClain and Julie Dobrow

26. Character Development in Youth Programs: Lessons from Developmental Science Research and Practice

Andrea Vest Ettekal, Jennifer P. Agans, Barbara Bolick and Kimia Shirzad

27. Philanthropic Approaches to Character Development

Sarah Clement, Richard Bollinger and Alexandra Was

28. The Templeton Philanthropies

Heather Templeton Dill and Jennifer Templeton Simpson

29. Character First, then Pathway to Excellence: A Case Study of NPX Point Avenue K12 Education Programs in Hanoi, Vietnam

Trang Le and Danny Hwang

30. Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach: Integrating Intellectual Virtues into the DNA of a School

Eric Churchill, Jacquie Bryant and Jason Baehr

31. A Developmental Journey: The Center for Character and Leadership Development at the U.S. Air Force Academy

John Abbatiello and Douglas R. Lindsay

32. Leaders of Character, The Coast Guard Academy Way

Leonard M. Giambra, Nathaniel K. Johnson, Andrew D. Ray, Jon Heller and Ellyn D. Metcalf

33. Building Trusted Army Professionals: Character Development at West Point

Jeffrey Peterson, Diane M. Ryan and Elise Dykhuis

34. Leadership and Character Development at the U.S. Naval Academy

Jeffrey R. Macris, Joseph J. Thomas, Andrew Ledford, Kevin Mullaney and Celeste Raver

Section 4: Conclusions and Implications

35. Character Virtue, Social Science, and Leadership: Consequences of Ignoring Practice

Margaret Beale Spencer

36. Progress, Challenges, and Promise in Understanding, Measuring, and Educating Character

Blaine J. Fowers, Lukas F. Novak, Nona C. Kiknadze and Alex C. Calder

37. Character Development: Then, Now, and Next

Richard M. Lerner and Michael D. Matthews

Afterword

William Damon