Larry Nucci, Visiting Scholar

Research Biography

Larry Nucci studies children's social and moral development and education. An aspect of his work has focused on children's judgments about issues they consider to be personal matters of privacy and discretion. This research has been carried out in a number of contexts including Latin America and Asia. Recently his work has focused on the assessment of moral and social reasoning and on the integration of moral education into the preparation of teachers.

He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and has received grants from the Kellogg Foundation, the Fetzer Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, and the Character Education Partnership.

He is Editor in Chief of the journal Human Development, and serves on the editorial boards of the journal Cognitive Development and the Journal for Research in Character Education. He is the author of the book Education in the Moral Domain (Cambridge University Press, 2001: with editions in Chinese, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish). His recent edited books include the Handbook of Moral and Character Education (with Darcia Narvarz) (Routledge, 2008); Conflict, Contradiction and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education (Earlbaum, 2005); International Perspectives on Youth Conflict (with Colette Daiute, Zeynep Beykont, and Craig Higson-Smith) (Oxford University Press, 2005).

He teaches a course on social and emotional development for the Developmental Teacher Education Program.

Larry Nucci Research Biography, January 2008