Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies in Human-Animal Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557535238)

Animals in Schools explores important questions in the field of critical animal studies and education by close examination of a wide range of educational situations and classroom activities. How are human-animal relations expressed and discussed in school? How do teachers and students develop strategies to handle ethical conflicts arising from the ascribed position of animals as accessible to human control, use, and killing? How do schools deal with topics such as zoos, hunting, and meat consumption? These are questions that have profound implications for education and society. They are graphically described, discussed, and rendered problematic based on detailed ethnographic research and are analyzed by means of a synthesis of perspectives from critical theory, gender, and postcolonial thought. Animals in Schools makes human-animal relations a crucial issue for pedagogical theory and practice. In the various physical and social dimensions of the school environment, a diversity of social representations of animals are produced and reproduced. These representations tell stories about human-animal boundaries and identities and bring to the fore a complex set of questions about domination and subordination, normativity and deviance, rationality and empathy, as well as possibilities of resistance and change.

Author: Helena Pederson
ISBN-10: 155753523X
ISBN-13: 9781557535238
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2009
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2010
Scitech Book News 03/01/2010 pg. 52