50TH ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Between Is and Ought: Meaningful Engagement in a Morally Complex World
Conference Date: October 24-26, 2024
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Conference Website: https://amenetwork.org/2024
Conference Email Address: AMEconference2024@gmail.com
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ALL Conference sessions will TAKE PLACE AT:
Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside NY 11364
Queens, NY, USA
We live in a morally complex world. How do we develop theories and philosophies that assist us in understanding this complexity? How do we bring principles, values, virtue, and care to the task? With an ever-widening gulf between theory and practice, how do we bridge the gap? What is our call to action?
Over the last 50 years the Association for Moral Education (AME) has creatively engaged with diversity and embraced character education, civics, virtue ethics, sex education, care ethics, social justice, environmentalism, peace education, and much more with thoughtful academics and practitioners around the globe.
For our 50th anniversary, we ask participants to consider looking between what “is” in our morally complex world and what “ought” to be, in other words, to “mind the gap”. Lawrence Kohlberg’s original work, From “Is” to “Ought,” is one touchstone for the conference theme, but there are many others. Consider for example that contemporary ethical theory modernizes and problematizes the IS as well as the OUGHT. Indeed, the ought calls up a myriad of perspectives across multiple academic disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, and education, that claim to, but may or may not, make the world a better place for learning and developing as citizens and simply as human beings.
At the 50th anniversary conference of AME at Queensborough Community College, we invite participants to join in an exploration of the “is” and the “ought” and the space between, to integrate philosophy and psychology, education and practice, theory and application, and the ideal and the real together with us. We look forward to your ideas and submissions.
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Travel grant decisions cannot be made until proposals are reviewed. If you have questions, please email the conference: ameconference2024@gmail.com
Registering for the full conference includes admittance to the conference, one year of membership in the AME, and a one-year subscription to the Journal of Moral Education.
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Conference Registration Fees
Boxed Lunches are included in the registration price if reserved at the time of registration.
Student Early Bird Registration (Before August 20, 2024): US$150.00
Regular Member Early Bird Registration (Before August 20, 2024): US$350
Standard Student Registration (after August 20, 2024): US$175
Standard Regular Member Registration (after August 20, 2024): US$390
Partial Reimbursement of registration fee is available with cancellation at least 2 weeks before the conference; no reimbursement is available after October 16.
Conference Organizers:
Phyllis Curtis-Tweed, Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Queensborough Community College, Queens NY;
Kaye Cook, Professor, Chair, Psychology, Gordon College, Wenham MA;
Sharon Lamb, Professor of Counseling Psychology, UMass Boston, Boston MA.
