Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame who has written extensively on issues of character, moral development, and human flourishing.
14 Facts About Darcia Narvaez
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Darcia Narvaez's father, Richard Narvaez, was a professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Minnesota.
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Darcia Narvaez spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.
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Darcia Narvaez earned a master of divinity degree from Luther Seminary in St Paul and is a published poet.
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Darcia Narvaez earned her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1993 and joined the College of Education and Human Development there in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Educational Psychology.
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Darcia Narvaez was married to Professor James Rest until his death in 1999.
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Darcia Narvaez is married to Daniel Lapsley, a professor of psychology at Notre Dame.
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Darcia Narvaez is co-author with James Rest, Steve Thoma and Muriel Bebeau of the book Postconventional Moral Thinking.
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Darcia Narvaez was one of five psychologists to be invited to speak at the White House's Conference on Character in Community in 2002.
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Darcia Narvaez's work emphasizes moral development over a lifespan, and the interaction between implicit and explicit processes in moral functioning.
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Darcia Narvaez emphasizes the importance of early experience in shaping moral capacities.
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Darcia Narvaez is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Darcia Narvaez is former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Moral Education.
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Several of Darcia Narvaez's books have won awards from the special interest group Moral Development and Education at the American Educational Research Association:.