Elliot Turiel is a professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on social and moral development, with an emphasis on domains of judgments, the relations of morality and culture, and opposition and resistance to cultural practices perceived as unjust. He studies ways children, adolescents, and adults attempt to counter inequalities (such as those based on gender) with overt and covert activities aimed at changing and subverting practices that favor those in positions of power in the social hierarchy.
Professor Turiel's publications include The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict (2002), "The Development of Morality" in Handbook of Child Psychology (2006), Social Development, Social, Inequalities, and Social Justice (2007) and "To Lie or not to Lie: To Whom and Under what Circumstances" in Child Development (with S. Perkins, 2007).
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Professor Liv Duesund, Department of Special Needs Education.