The Director of Character Education Programme, Peter King’ori gave a presentation during the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education which was held from October 26th – 28th, 2023 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The Conference was hosted by the Texas Christian University with the theme “Positive Youth Development and Moral Education: Building Bridges”. His presentation was entitled “Promoting Development of Character Strengths and Flourishing Among Adolescents Students.”

The conference brought together individual researchers and practitioners from 27 Countries across the world who are engaged in research and practice of positive youth development together with those who are engaged in the study and practice of moral education. The three days conference featured inspirational key note speakers, symposiums presentations, papers and posters presentations drawn from the field of philosophy, sociology, religion, education, psychology, and political science among others.
Additionally, Peter Kingori served as the Chairperson of the Poster Award Committee along with Prof Christine Gouveia from University of Pennsylvania in the USA and Prof. Jiang Fei from Northeast Normal University in China.

The Association for Moral Education gives the Poster Award for outstanding Poster presentation addressing important topics in the areas of moral development and education. Other Kenyans who presented during the Conference included Grace Ngugi from the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development and Esther Chongwo from Aga Khan University.

Grace’ presentation was entitled “Mainstreaming values and life skills education in the curriculum to foster character development among the youth: the Kenyan landscape; while Esther’s presentation was entitled “Mabrouk’s Measure of Adolescent Optimism: Development and Validation of a New Scale of Adolescent Optimism.”

More information about the conference can be found here