The Association for Moral Education

The Association for Moral Education (AME) provides an international forum for the interdisciplinary study of the moral and ethical dimensions of human development and education. The Association is dedicated to fostering communication and cooperation among scholars and practitioners considering all aspects of moral learning, development and action across the life-span in multiple roles and contexts, including the school, family, workplace, congregation, and the larger society.

The Association emphasizes self-reflective educational practices that value the worth and dignity of people as moral agents and that require opportunities for ethical engagement and moral dialogue.

Scholars and practitioners from more than 35 countries around the globe meet at the Annual Meeting of the Association.he Association is dedicated to fostering communication, cooperation, training, curriculum development, and research that links moral theory with educational practice. It supports self-reflective educational practices that value the worth and dignity of each individual as a moral agent in a pluralistic society.

More about AME

For the latest issue of the AME Forum, the Association's official publication, click here.

Annual conferences of the AME present its members with special opportunities to discuss their work in the areas of moral development and moral education with colleagues from around the world. They are sponsored by major universities and held throughout North America and internationally.

Our 39th Annual Conference will be in Montreal, Canada
October 24 - 26, 2013

The theme of the conference will be "Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Education: Pursuing the Common Good through Dialogue and Recognition."

For information about the conference, and to register or submit papers, visit the conference website.

Currently on the Op Ed page:

Elizabeth Vozzola, Revisiting Competing Conceptions of the Justice of Affirmative Action
(On January 11, Professor Vozzola also commented on this issue on New England Public Radio, WFCR. If you would like to hear the commentary, click here .)

D. Scott Herrmann, Failing Students for No-Name Assignments? Fair Grading Practice in Elementary Education

David Light Shields, Let's Contest the Meaning of Competition

Don Collins Reed, Neuroscience, Moral Psychology, and the Homunculus Fallacy

Stephanie Troutman, 'Help'ing to Forget Feminism: How Racism and Sexism are Personal and Not Political in the Film 'The Help'

Marvin Berkowitz, Navigating the Semantic Minefield of Promoting Moral Development

Lawrence Blum, Racial Integration is a Civic Imperative

(Click on the Op Ed logo in the upper-right corner to go to articles.)