Thoughts About Character as a Multifaceted Developmental System

• In Event: Moral Development and Education SIG Business Meeting

Abstract

Social scientists are hard pressed to offer a definition of character, and an important core of researchers have challenged the scientific validity of the character construct. In the face of these challenges, this paper will offer a view of character drawing from the work of several people (e.g., Berkowitz & Bier, 2014; Lerner & Schmid Calina, 2014) to make the case that the study of character must view character as a multi-faceted dynamic developmental system.

Author

• Larry P. Nucci, University of California