Nonhuman animals (animals hereafter) feature prominently within veterinary education. While veterinary students get to know animals, we might wonder what this means exactly, as there are many ways to know something or someone (Andreotti et al., 2011). What sort of knowledge about animals do students …
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anti-speciesist education
For centuries, the only teaching and learning about other-than-human animals that took place in educational institutions happened in the medical and biological sciences and in comparative psychology, with focal areas like animal anatomy or physiology, behaviour and cognition. Since the early 1970s, …
editorial: animals in education: ethical perspectives
Even for children growing up in (post-)industrial societies and wholly urban environments, animals are – in a way – everywhere. Representations of animals appear in and around many a cradle or child’s bed: teddy bears, tigers, pigs, sharks, crocodiles – there is hardly an animal species (or genus) …