Animal Rights Education

Kurzfassung/Abstract

This book aims to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education, namely how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals bears on pedagogy, and teaching and learning generally. It examines key trends in this regard, like environmental education, humane education, posthumanist education, ecopedagogy, critical animal pedagogy, critical animal studies, animal standpoint theory, and vegan education. The book begins with a discussion of animal minds and interests, and how animals have been accommodated within moral theory. Amongst other things, it examines whether anti-racist and anti-sexist education logically entails anti-speciesist education. It ends with the proposal of animal rights education as a viable and consistent alternative, a pedagogy that does justice not just to animals generally or as species but also to individual animals. If animal rights education is philosophically and educationally meaningful, then this arguably yields a powerful pedagogical tool, and for facilitating lasting pro-animal changes.