47th Annual Conference - ONLINE, November 3–7, 2021

Moral Education for Social Justice

Organizers: Larry Nucci and Winston C. Thompson

Should moral education include attention to issues of social justice?  Should students be educated to apply moral reasoning to address social inequalities as a necessary component of justice-oriented citizenship within a progressive democracy?  Can moral education in the service of social justice goals overcome the institutional limitations that might frustrate many other educational aims? How might moral education empower all students to live as complete moral agents and contribute towards creating and sustaining a more just and moral society?

The Association for Moral Education invites engaged reflection on these and other questions which follow from its 47th conference theme, “Moral Education for Social Justice”. This theme addresses a core element of meaningful moral education and is designed to bring together two educational communities that do not generally interact. We look forward to the dialogue that might take place between the community of moral educators and researchers associated with AME and educators and social justice educational researchers who view mainstream schooling as perpetuating social inequalities and in need of radical change. For many students, schools themselves may seem to perpetuate forms of moral harm and injustice. The situation in the United States with respect to issues of, inter alia, race is replicated in some areas of Europe, and other continents. In most countries around the globe social disparities exist with respect to issues of gender, social class, and disability. 

Below is a narrated description of the conference video on vimeo.com - 11 tabs to the play button (18 minutes). It is designed to be user-friendly for those with visual challenges.

For specific inquiries contact the conference organizers at AMEconference2021@gmail.com.