Dr. Juan Pablo Dabdoub (Navarre, Spain )

Juan P. Dabdoub is Assistant Professor at the School of Education and Psychology at University of Navarra in Spain and member of the Education, Citizenship, and Character Research Group. He has been researching and promoting virtuous character development in Spain and Latin America since 2015 with the support of the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the Association for Moral Education, with a particular focus on leadership. He collaborates with Marvin Berkowitz on several projects developing and spreading the PRIMED model for character education, which is the topic of his contribution today.

He currently leads three international initiatives: University Communities for Character Development in Europe and America, focused on residential communities; the international research project Educaracter in Mexico to design, implement and assess a character education leadership program for public schools; and the Leadership in Character Education courses in Madrid for leaders that want to integrate character development at the core of their culture. He has also been leading, researching, and promoting Colegios Mayores (Spanish residential colleges) for more than a decade.

His appointments include being Secretary of the Executive board of the Association of Moral Education and Scholar Affiliate of the Center for Character & Citizenship at the University of Missouri St. Louis, among others. He actively collaborates to promote character development initiatives with many and diverse institutions all over the world, such as Coschool in Colombia, Universidad Panamericana in Mexico, Kolegium of Antona Neuwirth in Slovakia, Varkey Foundation in Argentina, or Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Perú, among others.

More about him:

https://en.unav.edu/web/research/our-researchers/detalle-investigadores-cv?investigadorId=10078901