PHOENIX

3 days / 70+ speakers
80+ seminars, workshops, and panels
National Symposium for Classical Education

Phoenix Convention Center
February 22-24, 2023
https://classicaleducationsymposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/David-Walker-bw-New-e1672848270809-320x320.jpg
University of Alabama

David I. Walker

Dr. David Ian Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Alabama.

He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Development  and Principal Investigator for the  ‘Educational Leadership for Character’ project funded ($2.5m) by the Kern Family Foundation. His interdisciplinary research explores how to develop character and how character is shaped by context and culture.

After a first career as a soldier, Walker received his PhD from Durham University, UK and completed post-doctoral study at Purdue University, USA before leading research at the University of Birmingham in UK.  He was awarded a Vice Chancellors’ Senior Research Fellowship at Northumbria University, UK before taking up his current position.

Dr. Walker is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority, is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Moral Education and is on the steering committee for the Network for Research on Morality.

SESSIONS:
Cultivating Character in Modern Society
The recent resurgence in virtue ethics philosophy in the academic literature is starting to also gain traction in practice in terms of developing character among young people. In this talk I will discuss how virtue-based approaches to cultivating character remain relevant in modern society while also acknowledging some of the challenges.