COE Faculty Profile

David Light Shields
Affiliate Associate Professor
Division of Teaching & Learning

Email: shieldsda@umsl.edu
Office: 306 Marillac Hall
Phone: 314-516-5799

David Light Shields, Ph.D., is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Division of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Shields’ educational research has focused on social and moral development, and he also has expertise in citizenship education. Dr. Shields is the author, co-author, or editor of three books and has authored or co-authored more than 30 research articles or book chapters. Prior to coming to the University of Missouri St. Louis, Dr. Shields was the Co-Director the University of Notre Dame’s Mendelson Center for Sports, Character and Community. While in Indiana, he was appointed by Governor O’Bannon to the Governor’s Task Force on Character Education. Dr. Shields earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Sample Publications

• Shields, D., & Bredemeier, B. (In Press). Can sports build character? In D. Lapsley & F.C. Power (Eds.), Character psychology and education. University of Notre Dame Press.
  
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D., (In Press). Sport and the development of character. In D. Hackfort, J. Duda, & R. Lidor (Eds.), Handbook of research in applied sport and exercise psychology. Fitness Information Technology.
  
• Shields, D., Bredemeier, B., & Power, F.C. (2002). Character development and children's sport. In F. Smoll & R. Smith (Eds.), Children and youth in sport: A biopsychosocial perspective, 2nd ed. (pp. 537-559). Indianapolis: Brown & Benchmark.
  
• Power, C., Power, A., Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (2001). Democratic education and children’s rights. In S. Hart, C Cohen, M. Erickson, & M Flekkoy (Eds.), Children’s rights in education (pp. 98-118). London: Jessica Kingsley.
  
• Shields, D., & Bredemeier, B. (2001). Moral development and behavior in sport. In R. Singer, H. Hausenblas, & C. Janelle (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology (2nd Ed.) (pp. 585-603). New York: John Wiley.
  
• Shields, D., Carol, J., Balbach, E., & McGee, S. (1999). Hollywood on tobacco: How the entertainment industry understands tobacco portrayal. Tobacco Control, 8, 378-386.
  
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1998). Assessing moral constructs in physical activity settings. In J. Duda (Ed.), Advances in sport and exercise psychology measurement (pp. 257-276). New York: Fitness Information Technology, Inc.
  
• Miller, S., Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1997). Sociomoral education through physical education with at-risk children. Quest, 49, 114-129.
• Stephens, D., & Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1997). Construction of a measure designed to assess players' descriptions and prescriptions for moral behavior in youth sport soccer. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 28, 370-390.
• Shields, D., Gardner, D., Bredemeier, B., & Bostrom, A. (1997). The relationship between leadership behaviors and group cohesion in team sports. Journal of Psychology, 131, 196-210.
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1996). Moral development and children's sport. In F. Smoll & R. Smith (Eds.), Children and youth in sport: A biopsychosocial perspective (pp. 381-401). Indianapolis: Brown & Benchmark.
• Gardner, D., Shields, D., Bredemeier, B., & Bostrom, A. (1996). The relationship between perceived coaching behaviors and team cohesion among baseball and softball players. The Sport Psychologist, 10, 367-381.
• Shields, D. (1996). Friendship: Content and context for Christian education. Religious Education, 91, 104-121.
• Shields, D., & Bredemeier, B. (1996). Sport, militarism, and peace. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 2, 369-383.
• Shields, D. (Ed.). (1995). The color of hunger: Race and hunger in national and international perspective. Lanham, MY: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Shields, D., & Bredemeier, B. (1995). Character development and physical activity. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
• Shields, D., Bredemeier, B., Gardner, D., & Bostrom, A. (1995). Leadership, cohesion and team norms regarding cheating and aggression. Sociology of Sport Journal, 12, 324-336.
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1994). Applied ethics and moral reasoning in sport. In J. Rest (Ed.), Moral development in the professions (pp. 173-187). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1993). Moral psychology in the context of sport. In R. Singer, M. Murphey, & L. K. Tennant (Eds.), Handbook of research in sport psychology (pp. 587-599). New York: Macmillan.
  
• Bredemeier, B., Weiss, M., Shields, D., & Cooper, B. (1987). The relationship between children's legitimacy judgments and their moral reasoning, aggression tendencies and sport involvement. Sociology of Sport Journal, 4, 48-60.
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1986). Athletic aggression: An issue of contextual morality. Sociology of Sport Journal, 3 15-28.
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1986). Game reasoning and interactional morality. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 147, 257-275.
• Bredemeier, B., Weiss, M., Shields, D., & Shewchuk, R. (1986). Promoting moral growth in a summer sport camp: The implementation of theoretically grounded instructional strategies. Journal of Moral Education, 15, 212-220.
• Shields, D. (1986). Growing beyond prejudice. Mystic, CT: Twenty?Third Publications.
• Bredemeier, B., & Shields, D. (1985). Values and violence in sport. Psychology Today, 19, 22-32.
  
  
  
  

• Adolescence
• Child Development
• Constructivism
• Cooperative Learning
• Critical Theory
• Ethics
• Moral and Character Education
• Motivation
• Peace Education
• Social Context
• Social Processes/Development
• Sport Psychology
• Teacher Education/Development