Young Adult Moral Exemplars: The Making of Self Through Stories

By M. Kyle Matsuba, Lawrence J. Walker. 2005

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The meaning of role modelling in moral and character education (2013, background): “Subsequent studies (Hart & Fegley, 1995 ; Walker et al, 1995 ; Matsuba & Walker, 2004 , 2005 ) confirmed that character traits play an important role in distinguishing moral exemplars from ordinary people.”
Purpose: giftedness in intrapersonal intelligence (2009, background): “This dimension builds on work emphasizing contributions young people make to their wider communities (Hart & Fegley, 1995; Lerner, Lerner, Almerigi, & Theokas, 2005; Matsuba & Walker, 2005).”
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative (2010, background): “…that a person places, relative to others, on possessing and enacting moral virtues like fairness and caring for his or her identity [Blasi & Milton, 1991; Colby & Damon, 1992; Frensch, Pratt, & Arnold, in press; Hardy & Carlo, 2005; Hart, 2005; Matsuba & Walker, 2005; Reed & Aquino, 2003].”
Beyond Moral Reasoning: A Review of Moral Identity Research and Its Implications for Business Ethics (2008, background): “…community service (Hart, Atkins, & Ford, 1998, 1999), exhibit community involvement (Nasir & Kirshner, 2003), or have achieved socially sanctioned status as a moral exemplar may be used to indicate a strong moral identity (Atkins, Hart, & Donnelly, 2004; Matsuba & Walker, 2004, 2005; Reimer, 2003).”