Revitalization of Character Education in the current Educational Psychology arena: Contributions from the sciences of Prevention and Positive Psychology

Can moral education be enriched with recent contributions from the Social Sciences field? The purpose of this article is the analysis of the different factors that contributed to the resufacing of a "character" notion and to an increasing interest in its education in the United States during the decade of 1990. The reader will appreciate that this phenomena is adding a new reinforcement from different perspectives to moral education. The aim of this work is to offer a compilation of the main issues regarding what we have named the Character Revitalization Movement (MRC), approaching its cardinal concepts, most prominent models and main authors. We also want to highlight its close relation to some new valuable developments in the field of Prevention and Positive Psychology. We foresee that, with the recent advancements, the MRC will constitute a reference point to those interested in this type of education.