Directory

Mark B. Tappan
Sabbatical: 09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010
Professor and Director
Education



Phone: 207-859-4426
Fax: 859-4425
Email:
mbtappan@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
4426 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8844

Office Hours:
Wednesday 9:30-11:30 am

Education

A.B. 1979 Oberlin College
Religion

M.A. 1981 The Ohio State University
Education

Ed.D. 1987 Harvard University
Human Development

Areas of Expertise:
  • Moral development and moral education
  • Risk and resilience in children and adolescents
  • Boys' development and education
  • Service learning in higher education
  • Public education, including secondary, elementary, and early-childhood education
Current Research

Tappan, M. (2001, April). Service learning as moral education: Acquiring critical tools for social justice. In P. Cohen (Chair), Practice oriented ethics education. Symposium Conducted at the Understanding Practice Oriented Education Conference, Boston, MA.

Sterling, L., & Tappan, M. (2003, October). An asset based approach to college and community mentoring. Presented at the 7th Annual Healthy Communities/Healthy Youth Conference, San Jose, CA.

Brown, L., & Tappan, M. (2004, July). Fighting like a girl fighting like a guy. In R. Levant (Chair), Masculinity and femininity ideologies, conformity, and role strain. Symposium conducted at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.

Tappan, M. (2004, November). Service learning as asset building: Promoting positive youth development through college-community collaboration. In R. Howard (Chair), Service learning, social justice, democracy, and moral development. Symposium conducted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education, Newport Beach, CA.

Tappan, M. (2004, November). Appropriated domination, masculinity, and the construction of a privileged identity. In L, Brown (Chair), Appropriating gender, creating identities: Toward an education for liberation. Symposium conducted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education, Newport Beach, CA.

Brostek, E. (’06) & Tappan, M. (2005, November). “The kind of person I am;” Civic engagement and identity development during the college years. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.

Tappan, M. (2006, April). From Eminem to 'the Mook": Cultural images of masculinity. Workshop presented at the To a Higher Degree: Promoting the Academic Success of Boys Conference, Waterville, ME.

Publications

Books


Tappan, M. & Packer, M. (Eds.). (1991). Narrative and storytelling: Implications for understanding moral development. New Directions for Child Development, #54. San Franciso: Jossey-Bass.



Packer, M. & Tappan, M. (Eds.). (2001). Cultural and critical perspectives on human development. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Selected Articles

Tappan, M. (1989). Stories lived and stories told: The narrative structure of late adolescent moral development. Human Development, 32, 300-315.

Tappan, M., & Brown, L. (1989). Stories told and lessons learned: Toward a narrative approach to moral development and moral education. Harvard Educational Review, 59, 182-205.

Tappan, M. (1990). Hermeneutics and moral development: Interpreting narrative representations of moral experience. Developmental Review, 10, 239-265.

Tappan, M. (1991). Narrative, language, and moral experience. Journal of Moral Education, 20, 243-256.

Day, J., & Tappan, M. (1995). Identity, voice, and the psycho/dialogical: Perspectives from moral psychology. American Psychologist, 50, 47-48.

Day, J., & Tappan, M. (1996). The narrative approach to moral development: From the epistemic subject to dialogical selves. Human Development, 32, 67-82.

Tappan, M., & Brown, L. (1996). Envisioning a postmodern moral pedagogy. Journal of Moral Education, 25, 101-109.

Tappan, M. (1997). Analyzing stories of moral experience: Narrative, voice, and the dialogical self. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7, 379-386.

Tappan, M. (1997). Language, culture, and moral development: A Vygotskian perspective. Developmental Review, 17, 78-100.

Tappan, M. (1998). Interpretive psychology: Stories, circles, and understanding lived experience. Journal of Social Issues, 53, 645-656.

Tappan, M. (1998). Moral education in the zone of proximal development. Journal of Moral Education, 27, 125-145.

Tappan, M. (1998). Sociocultural psychology and caring pedagogy: Exploring Vygotsky's "hidden curriculum." Educational Psychologist, 33, 23-33.

Tappan, M. (1998). Toward a dialogic conception of human development. Narrative Inquiry, 8, 391-396.

Tappan, M. (1999). Authoring a moral self: A dialogical perspective. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 12, 117-131.

Tappan, M. (2000). Autobiography, mediated action, and the development of moral identity. Narrative Inquiry, 10, 81-109.

Tappan, M. (2000). Power, privilege, and critique in the study of moral development. Human Development, 43, 165-169.

Tappan, M. (2005). Domination, subordination, and the dialogical self: Identity development and the politics of "ideological becoming." Culture and Psychology, 11(1), 47-75.

Tappan, M. (2006). Moral functioning as mediated action. Journal of Moral Education 35(1), 1-18..

Tappan, M. (2006). Reframing internalized oppression and internalized domination: From the psychological to the sociocultural. Teachers College Record.

Selected Chapters

Tappan, M., Kohlberg, L., Schrader, D., & Higgins, A. (1987). Heteronomy and autonomy in moral development: Two types of moral judgments. In A. Colby & L. Kohlberg, The measurement of moral judgment (Vol. 1). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, L., Tappan, M., Gilligan, C., Miller, B., & Argyris, D. (1989). Reading for self and moral voice: A method for interpreting narratives of real-life moral conflict and choice. In M. Packer & R. Addison (Eds.), Entering the circle: Hermeneutic investigation in psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Tappan, M. (1990). The development of justice reasoning during young adulthood: A three-dimensional model. In M. Commons, C. Armon, L. Kohlberg, F. Richards, T. Grotzer, & J. Sinnott (Eds.), Adult development, Vol. 2: Models and methods in the study of adolescent and adult thought. New York: Praeger.

Tappan, M. (1991). Narrative, authorship, and the development of moral authority. In M. Tappan & M. Packer (Eds.), Narrative and storytelling: Implications for understanding moral development (New directions for child development, No. 54). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Tappan, M., & Brown, L. (1991). Stories told and lessons learned: Toward a narrative approach to moral development and moral education. In C. Witherell & N. Noddings (Eds.), Stories lives tell: Narrative and dialogue in education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Brown, L., Debold, E., Tappan, M., & Gilligan, C. (1991). Reading narratives of conflict and choice for self and moral voice: A relational method. In W. Kurtines & J. Gewirtz (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development: Theory, research, and application. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tappan, M. (1992). Texts and contexts: Language, culture, and the development of moral functioning. In L. T. Winegar & J. Valsiner (Eds.), Children’s development within social contexts: Metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological issues. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tappan, M., & Brown, L. (1992). Hermeneutics and developmental psychology: Toward an ethic of interpretation. In W. Kurtines, M. Azmitia, & J. Gewirtz (Eds.), The role of values in psychology and human development. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Tappan, M. (1993). Relational voices and moral development: Reflections on change. In P. Kahaney, L. Perry, & J. Janangelo (Eds.), Theoretical and critical perspectives on teacher change. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Rogers, A., Brown, L., & Tappan, M. (1994). Interpreting loss in ego development in girls: Regression or resistance? In A. Lieblich & R. Josselson (Eds.), Exploring identity and gender: The narrative study of lives (Vol. 2). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Brown, L., Tappan, M., & Gilligan, C. (1995). Listening to different voices. In W. Kurtines & J. Gewirtz (Eds.), Moral development: An introduction. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Tappan, M. (1997). Internalization and its discontents. In B. Cox & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Sociogenetic perspectives on internalization. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tappan, M. (1999). Moral development in a postmodern world. In R. Mosher, D. Youngman, & J. Day (Eds.), Human development across the life span: Educational and psychological applications. New York: Praeger.

Tappan, M. (2001). Interpretive psychology: Stories, circles, and understanding lived experience. In D. Tolman & M. Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From subjects to subjectivities: A handbook of interpretive and participatory research methods. New York: New York University Press.

Tappan, M. (2001). The cultural reproduction of masculinity: A critical perspective on boys' development. In M. Packer & M. Tappan (Eds.), Cultural and critical perspectives on human development. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Tappan, M., & Tappan, R. (2002). The one that got away--or did it? In T. Sarbin & R. Pellegrini (Eds.), Between fathers and sons: Critical incident narratives on the development of men's lives. London: Sage.

Tappan, M. (2006). Mediated moralities: Sociocultural approaches to moral development. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Honors and Awards

Donald Harwood Faculty Award for Service Learning Excellence. Presented by Maine Campus Compact, 2004.