Darcia Narvaez

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

Degrees

B.A., University of Northern Colorado; M.Div., Luther Northwestern Seminary; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Profile

Dr. Narvaez studies and teaches about moral development. She tries to bridge the gaps in approaches to character education and moral psychology. Her Triune Ethics Theory (TET, published in 2008) is a comprehensive account of moral psychology rooted in neurobiology. Integrating cognitive science, expertise development and classical notions of virtue cultivation, she developed the Integrative Ethical Education model (published in the 2006 Handbook of Moral Development, and in a forthcoming book). As leader of the design team for the federally-funded Minnesota Community Voices and Character Education Project (reported on at a Whitehouse conference), she compared (quasi-experimentally) the effects of locally flexible approaches to ethical education that were based on a research-derived framework of skill and expertise development. She has numerous publications including articles in the Journal of Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and several books, including the 1999 award-winner, Postconventional Moral Thinking, and (with Dan Lapsley) the 2004 award-winner, Moral Development, Self and Identity.

Contact Information

100 Haggar Hall
631-7835
dnarvaez@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~dnarvaez/