The biennial meeting of EARLI's SIG 13 Moral and Democratic Education was held in
Fribourg, Switzerland, July 5-7, 2006, in the context of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Moral Education.
Unfortunately, the original plan of organising the meeting in Israel could not be carried
out, and AME agreed to host us. We would like to send our deepest thanks for this
interesting and enriching opportunity, to Prof. John Snary, the president of AME, and to
Prof. Fritz Oser, the chair of the conference and his staff, for their hospitality. It was a
great opportunity and an interesting experience to actively take part in an intensive
conference on Moral Education. We are sure that this meeting will have scientific and
personally important results.
Twelve members of SIG 13 Moral and Democratic Education participated in the
conference. They participated in invited symposia, session papers and posters. The
participants created new relationships, and renewed contacts with scholars all over the
world.
The coordinators of SIG 13 held a meeting at which they discussed and decided on
several guidelines for the 12th Biennial EARLI Conference in 2007, in Budapest, Hungary:
1. Formulating the main topics for symposia suggested, initially among SIG members. A
letter with the topics proposed was sent to members and potential members on 20 June
2006.
2. Inviting members of the "Network of research on citizenship and moral education" to
present at the invited symposium of the SIG at the next EARLI conference, entitled
‘Getting Involved: Developing Potentials for Learning Citizenship'. The organisers of the
symposium will be Fritz Oser and Wiel Veugelers.
3. Expanding the number of SIG 13 members by inviting European scholars, who are not
yet members to take part in the SIG's activities.