Overview
- Explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning
- Examines key trends in animal rights education
- Discusses animal minds and interests, and how animals have been accommodated in moral theory
- Investigates whether anti-racist and anti-sexist education logically entail anti-speciesist education
- Proposes animal rights education as a viable and sound alternative that can potentially facilitate lasting change
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Animals and Education
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Animal Rights and Education
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About this book
This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education. It examines key trends in this regard, including environmental education, humane education, posthumanist education, ecopedagogy, critical animal pedagogy, critical animal studies, animal standpoint theory, and vegan education. The book discusses animal minds and interests, and how animals have been accommodated in moral theory. Further, it investigates whether anti-racist and anti-sexist education logically entail anti-speciesist education and closes by proposing animal rights education as a viable and sound alternative, a pedagogy that does justice not only to animals in general and as species, but also to individual animals. If animal rights education is philosophically and educationally meaningful, then it can arguably offer a powerful pedagogical tool, and facilitate lasting pro-animal changes.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kai Horsthemke is an Associate Professor and teaches Philosophy of Education at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. His research interests include African philosophy and indigenous knowledge systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal Rights Education
Authors: Kai Horsthemke
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98593-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98592-3Published: 15 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07511-8Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98593-0Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6672
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 358
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics