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EndnotesCHAPTER 2: Performance Character and Moral Character1See, for example, B. Bloom, Developing talent in young people. (NewYork: Ballatine Books, 1985). Also, H. Gardner, M. Csikszentmihalyi,& B. Damon, Good work: When excellence and ethics meet. (New York:Basic Books, 2001). Also, M. Csikszentmihalyi, K. Ratunde, & S.Whalen, Talented teenagers: The roots of success and failure. (New York:Cambridge University Press, 1993).2R. Berger, An ethic of excellence. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,2003).3Berger, 5.4Berger, 35.5The concept of performance character presented in this reportextends thinking originally emerging from the study of sport andcharacter by Matt Davidson and Kelli Moran-Miller: “Performanceand moral character: A blueprint for developing character in competitivecontexts.” SUNY Cortland: unpublished manuscript,davidsonm@cortland.edu.6See, for example, J.G. Nicholls, “Conceptions of ability andachievement motivation: A theory and its implications for education,”in S.G. Paris, G.M. Olson, & H.W. Stevenson (Eds.), Learningand motivation in the classroom. (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1983). Also,D. Molden & C. Dweck, “Meaning and motivation,” in C. Sansone &J. M. Harackiewicz (Eds.), Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: The searchfor optimal motivation and performance. (New York: Academic Press,2000).7Our thinking on competition builds on David Shields’s conferencepaper “Opponents or enemies: Rethinking the nature of competition.”University of Notre Dame (May 12, 2001).8M. Csikszentmihalyi, K. Ratunde, & S. Whalen, Talented teenagers:The roots of success and failure. (New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1993).9M. Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. (NewYork: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990).10From Richard Hooker’s World Civilizations Glossary, athttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/WORLD.HTM11A. Colby & W. Damon, Some do care. (New York: Free Press, 1992).12J. Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of observations and reflections on andoff the court. (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1997).31Smart & Good High Schools