We are pleased to announce that a new dissertation award has been created.  In addition to the original doctoral dissertation award instituted in 1983, the Association now considers dissertations written in languages other than English.

The Dissertation Award gives recognition and commendation to a doctoral dissertation in the field of moral development and/or moral education. Persons may submit their own work or be recommended by their thesis advisor or a member of the Award Committee. The dissertation must have been completed within the past three years (February 15, 2000 - February 15, 2003).

The next submission deadline for both awards is February 15, 2003.  The committee's decision will be announced at the next AME conference.

For dissertations written in English, the committee will require four (4) copies; for dissertations written in a language other than English, the committee requests two (2) copies.  (If this presents a financial hardship, the candidate is requested to contact the chairperson.)

Submissions from outside North America are encouraged in both categories. One need not be a member of the Association to receive the award.

Please send dissertations, nominations, or queries to:

Professor Don Cochrane

Chair, AME Dissertation Awards Committee

College of Education

28 College Drive

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X1

Canada

E-mail Address: don.cochrane@usask.ca (or click on the name above)

FAX: 306.966.7549

2001 Gunter Becker (PhD, Freien Universitat Berlin)

Kohlberg und seine Kritiker in der Moralpsychologie (language other than English)

2001 Kyle Matsuba (PhD, University of British Columbia)

Study of Moral Exemplars in Transition to Adulthood (in English)

2000 Karl H. Hennig (PhD, University of British Columbia)

Mapping the Care Domain: Conceptualizing, Assessment, and Relation to Eating Disorders

1999 no award

1998Elena Mustakova-Possardt (PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

The Ontogeny of Critical Consciousness

1997Daniel James Vokey (PhD, University of Toronto)

Reasons of the Heart: Moral Objectivity and Moral Education

1996Lene Arnett Jensen (PhD, University of Chicago)

Different Habits, Different Hearts: Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the United States and India

1995John Harrison Taylor (PhD, University of British Columbia)

Moral Climate and the Development of Moral Reasoning: The Effects of Dyadic Discussions Between Young Offenders

1994Mary Louise Arnold (EdD, Harvard University)

The Place of Morality in the Adolescent Self

1993Marion Mason (PhD, Ohio State University)

The Role of Expanded Social Participation in the Transition from Stage 3 to Stage 4 Moral Judgment in Late Adolescence and Adulthood

1992 no award

1991Marilyn Sterner Keat (PhD, Pennsylvania State University)

Moral Education: Toward New Foundations in the Hermeneutic Synthesis of Aristotle and Kant

1990Kathleen Chafey (PhD, University of Minnesota)

An Exploration of the Linkages among Selected Components of Moral Behavior

1989Dawn Ellen Schrader (EdD, Harvard University)

Exploring Metacognition: A Description of Levels of Metacognition and Their Relationship to Moral Judgment

1988Deborah Deemer (PhD, University of Minnesota)

Moral Judgment and Life Experience

1987Jyotsna Vasudev (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

A Study of Moral Reasoning at Different Life Stages in India

1986Stephen Joseph Thoma (PhD, University of Minnesota)

Improving the Relationship Between Moral Judgment and External Criteria: The Utilizer and Non-Utilizer Dimension

1985Gil Noam (EdD, Harvard University)

Stage, Phase and Style: Developmental Dynamics of Self and Morality

1984Cheryl Armon (EdD, Harvard University)

Ideas of the Good Life: A Longitudinal/Cross-Sectional Study of Evaluative Reasoning in Children and Adults

1983John R. Snarey (EdD, Harvard University)

The Social and Moral Development of Kibbutz Founders and Sabras: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Cross-Cultural Study"