Gateway to Justice

Meeting the Moral Challenges of Social Inequality

November 4–6, 2010
Chase Park Plaza
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

The 2010 meeting of the Association for Moral Education will explore the intersection of individuals’ moral development and the many faces of social inequality and injustice.

Fostering the development of moral agents capable of dealing productively with social injustice requires honing two important capacities.The first involves teaching and learning practices that effectively promote the processes of moral reflection, perspective taking, and action.The second involves nurturing the skills to interpret the various levels of complex social systems and understand the many sources from which social inequalities may emerge.

The 2010 conference will provide a forum to address these issues and the many hurdles that must be overcome in order to meet the moral challenges of social inequality.The conference will include invited speakers, symposia, paper sessions, and poster presentations that examine the moral implications of privilege and difference through a variety of lenses, such as race/ethnicity, social class, gender, and religion. Although conference submissions may be on any topic related to education and moral development, the conference organizers encourage submissions that will:

• Identify teaching and learning practices that simultaneously promote moral growth and an understanding of the social conditions leading to inequality;
• Present research findings that clarify the complexity of relations between social structures, unjust social practices, and/or individually held attitudes and beliefs;
• Describe how the creation of social identities and memberships impacts moral reflection and action;
• Analyze how such systems as family, religion, sports, media, and other cultural institutions have influenced moral issues related to diversity, equality, and social justice;
• Foster a moral commitment to diversity and equality in education and other related disciplines.

Conference Co-Chairs

• Wolfgang Althof, Dr. phil., Dr. habil.,Teresa M. Fischer Endowed Professor of Citizenship Education, University of Missouri–St. Louis
• Bryan W. Sokol, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University

Sponsored by:

• University of Missouri–St. Louis and its Division of Continuing Education
• Saint Louis University
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• Lindenwood University

You can also visit the AME Web Site.