Animal Rights Education
by Kai Horsthemke
September 2018
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.
- 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
