Association for Moral Education (AME)

Rumi's epistemology and implications for moral education

From its very beginnings, man has always been a curious and inquisitive creature looking for goals to reach him, but what a destination is, where it is, and who it is has been an important issue that makes people more curious and purposeful. He believes that the structure of human beliefs is shaped by his moral characteristics and that the moral contaminants of human knowledge are distorted. Th...

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

Moral Education for a Society in Moral Transition

IN 1969 the Association for Super vision and Curriculum Development held a special conference on the hidden or un studied curriculum of the school. My friend Philip Jackson organized the session with papers by Friedenberg, Dreeben, Jackson, and myself. 1 At the time I claimed Jackson's term, the "hidden curriculum," referred to the moral atmosphere of the school, and that the function of the hi...

neoliberalism and commercialization of education: the challenges for moral education

the aim of this paper is to critique the influences of commercialization of education on moral education. for this aim we used critical method. investigating the challenges of neoliberal education for moral education, with case study of nclb, indicated that increasing competition and reducing social participation, instrumentalist view on human being, converting knowledge to a commodity for prof...

Moral Values In Education

Schools have long been seen as institutions for preparing children for life, both academically and as moral agents in society. In order to become capable, moral citizens, children need to be provided with opportunities to learn moral values. However, little is known about how teachers enact social and moral values programs in the classroom. The aim of this article is to investigate the the mora...