Animal Rights Education

• Main Author: Horsthemke, Kai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Animal welfare.; Philosophy of Education.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

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, po...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Animals and morality
• Chapter 1. The minds and interests of animals
• Chapter 2. Moral anthropocentrism, non-paradigmatic cases, and speciesism
• Chapter 3. Non-anthropocentric views, animals as moral subjects, and equality
• Part II: Animals and education
• Chapter 4. Moral education and animals
• Chapter 5. Environmental education and education for sustainability, biophilia and ecophilia
• Chapter 6. Humane education and theriophilia
• Chapter 7. Philosophical posthumanism, critical pedagogy and ecopedagogy
• Chapter 8. Critical animal studies and animal standpoint theory
• Chapter 9. Vegan education
• Part III: Animal rights and education
• Chapter 10. The place of rights in morality, and animal rights education
• Chapter 11. Loose ends and remaining problems
• Chapter 12. Change, emancipation, and some practical suggestions for animal rights education.