E-raamat: Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume I: Conceptualizing and Defining Character [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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

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.