The events during the AME 2004 conference will be organized as follows:

• Wednesday, November 10, 2004 ... Pre-Conference Workshops [Schedule]
• Thursday to Saturday, November 11 to 13, 2004 ... Main Conference Events
• Sunday, November 14, 2004 ... AME Executive Board Meeting

As in previous years, there will be a general focus on moral education and development. In addition the 2004 AME Conference will examine the relationships among ethics, aesthetics, and social justice. In keeping with the Association’s mission, the program includes proposals from both scholars and practitioners (as if scholars were not interested in practice and practitioners not in scholarship) across the disciplines of psychology, sociology, social psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, critical theory, economics, education, and the arts to name a few. Of particular interest is attention paid to the challenge of action. How can we stimulate and expand both our consciousness and conscience about the relationship of our work to the dangers that face us? How can we as individuals and an organization then contribute to the alleviation of the grave unfairness and injustice which characterize our times? To meet this challenge, the conference offers contributions in the form of plenary sessions, individual papers, symposia, posters, workshops and round tables from scholars, practicing educators, community advocacy groups, parents, and students (from 3rd grade through Doctoral candidates).

To encourage attendance from the working public and K-12 educators, the program has been designed to accommodate their schedules. Specifically, sessions believed to be of interest to these groups have been scheduled as much as possible for 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and all day Saturday.

In conjunction, for the past two years, the Paulo Freire Democratic Project (PFDP) within the Chapman School of Education has sponsored a small, one day Social Justice Conference (SJC) each Spring. This gathering had two functions. The first was awarding the PFDP social justice award to an individual or community group which exemplified the spirit and work of Paulo Freire. The second was a program drawing from the experiences of K-12 teachers and students engaged in social justice work with special emphasis upon student efforts. Rather than trying to organize two conferences this year, because of the work involved, we decided to combine the PFDP SJC with the AME conference. Thus, November 13 as Educators Saturday Special Day with its own theme of “Educational Justice: Equity, Fairness, Language Access, and Accountability” has solicited proposals focusing on educators, parents, and students engaged in educational justice work with particular interest in, but not limited to, English Language Learners. This day, along with 4 p.m. scheduling and ongoing AME accepted proposals, then becomes a rich opportunity for interaction between AME and K-12 participants in keeping with the major conference theme of Moral Education: The Intersection of Ethics, Aesthetics, and Social Justice.

Some 190 submissions from 23 countries and 29 states within the United States are represented in the program.

Poster Symposia
Posters are grouped according to their topics to form a two part poster symposium. First, the grouped posters are on display with their authors for individual discussion. Second, the authors meet with an invited discussant and others who are interested in the grouped poster topic in a round table format to continue the conversation.

Paper Sessions
Paper sessions, scheduled for 75 minutes, include two or three papers connected by a common theme (which, at times, is not an easy task) determined by the Program Committee. Paper sessions are chaired by one of the presenters.

Symposia
A symposium also lasts for 75 minutes and typically includes three or more presentations connected by common theme determined prior to actual submission. The symposium is chaired by the author who submitted the symposium.

Round Tables
Round Tables, some 75 minutes in length, are scheduled for lunch time Friday and Saturday (November 12 and 13). While the majority of Round Tables are prescheduled, possible “ad hoc” groupings can be arranged based upon desires arising as the conference unfolds. Please select the Round Table of choice at the Registration Desk.

Professor Judy Baca will deliver the Lawrence Kohlberg Memorial lecture. Since 1976, Judy has served as the founder/artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California. She has taught studio art within the University of California since 1980. Judy currently holds two academic appointments at UCLA: Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies within the Cesar Chavez Center and Professor of Art for World Arts and Cultures. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work appears in the collections of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford Connecticut. The core of both her public and personal work is based on the belief that art has the ability to foster civic dialogue in the most uncivil places and thus becomes a tool for both self-transformation and social change.

In addition to Professor Baca’s lecture, the conference theme will be addressed in plenary sessions through an invited symposium and six lectures. The invited and conference opening symposium is titled “The Costs of Moral Courage: Truth-Telling and its Consequences”. Moderated by Paul Saint-Amand, SUNY, Potsdam and Dan Kelly, Chapman University, the panel focuses on the costs of moral courage illustrated by the experience of four individuals whose deliberate actions overcame their fear of consequences. Panel members include Daniel Ellsberg, a trusted state department analyst whose public exposure of classified documents helped to end a war and unseat President Nixon, the Reverend Dorothy Mackey, a former US Air Force Officer, raped and sexually abused, who stepped forward to report a systemic military problem that continues unabated as a nation honors some of the very military leaders who cover up this abuse, Dennis Stout, as a young Air Force officer witnessed atrocities committed in Vietnam over 35 years ago and has committed himself to bring those responsible to justice, and Anne Wright, Col, USA, Retired, a senior US diplomat in Africa who resigned her post to protest the current administration’s policies in Iraq, North Korea, and Israel-Palestine and its impingement on civil liberties.

This symposium will be the first session (Wednesday, November 10, 7 p.m.) of the conference and will be advertised and open to the public.

Carrying on the tradition of recent years, a number of distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to the theme of the conference will give invited lectures:

• Alma Flor Ada, Professor of Education and Director, Center for Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults, University of San Francisco.
• Benjamin R. Barber, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, principal of the Democracy Collaborative, will deliver a lecture on Moral Education in a World of Terrorism and Interdependence.
• Garret Duncan.
• Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, activist and lecturer on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions since the Vietnam War. Whistle blower of conscience, made public secret documents eventually called the Pentagon Papers which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
• Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics and author of The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy.
• Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, and author of Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lila Bartolome).
• Rueben Martinez, 2004 MacArthur Fellow recipient.
• Peter McLaren, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, whose latest book is Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution.

An abstract of Garrett Duncan’s lecture follows:

Many youth of color suffer conditions of marginalization and oppression in school that mirror their status in the larger society. These conditions, often shorn of the explicit and formal expressions of power that we typically associate with domination, are indicative of more fundamental forms of estrangement. Using qualitative data to illustrate how these moral rifts have manifested themselves in my own work, I raise ontological, epistemological, pedagogical, and political considerations in proposing the adoption of a love ethic as a method for researching the schooled lives of marginalized and oppressed youth.

The complete list of workshops is available here.

To learn more about the workshops, feel free to contact the presenters through the included email addresses.

(updated October 21, 2004)

Wednesday, November 10
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m. - noon, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Workshops #2, 3
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Workshops #1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.	Speech: Rueben Martinez Symposium: Moral Courage
12:00 noon	Executive Board Meeting

Thursday, November 11
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Daily Registration
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Opening Ceremony
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.	Plenary: Judy Baca
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Plenary: Marjorie Kelly
3:45 - 4:00 p.m.	Break
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
5:15 - 5:30 p.m.	Break
5:30 - 6:45 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Awards Ceremony and Welcoming Reception

Friday, November 12
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Daily Registration
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.	Plenary: Garrett Duncan
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch & Roundtables
1:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Plenary: Benjamin Barber
3:45 - 4:00 p.m.	Break
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
5:15 - 6:00 p.m.	Break
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.	Poster Session concurrent with President’s Reception
7:30 - 10:00 p.m.	Entertainment / Music

Saturday, November 13
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Daily Registration
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.	Plenary: Alma Flor Ada
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch & Roundtables
1:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Symposia and Paper Presentations
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30 - 4:45 p.m.	Interactive Plenary: Donaldo Macedo and Peter McLaren
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.	AME Community Meeting
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Plenary: Daniel Ellsberg and Peter McLaren

Sunday, November 14
6:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Executive Board Meeting
To be decided	Ad Hoc Sessions From the Experiences of the Conference

The complete conference program is available here.

Conference Chair: Tom Wilson, Faculty, Chapman University
Program Chair: Suzanne SooHoo, Faculty, Chapman University
Educators Saturday Special Day Chair: Anaida Colon-Muniz, Faculty, Chapman University

Members:

Gigi Brignoni, Faculty, Chapman University
Don Cardinal, Dean and Faculty, Chapman University
John Gunderson, High School Psychology Teacher
Dan Kelly, Middle School Special Education Teacher
Tammy Khis, Graduate Assistant, Chapman University
Ky Kugler, Faculty, Chapman University
Xiaopeng Lou, Graduate Assistant, Chapman University
Kim Olexa, Elementary School Teacher
Olga Salce, Under Graduate Student, Chapman University
Sally Thomas, Faculty, Chapman University
Susie Weston, Elementary School Teacher
Emily Wolk, Elementary School Teacher
Anna Wilson, Faculty, Chapman University