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Animals in Environmental Education

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy

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Overview

  • Explores ways interdisciplinary curricula and pedagogy uniquely capture animal voices
  • Displays opportunity for students to explore the complex ways in which human and animal lives are entangled
  • Asks how interdisciplinary curricula and pedagogy challenge (or rectify) the persistent anthropocentrism of traditional environmental education curricula and pedagogy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment (PSEE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Interdisciplinary Conversations in Formal and Non-Formal Education

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About this book

This book explores interdisciplinary approaches to animal-focused curriculum and pedagogy in environmental education, with an emphasis on integrating methods from the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences. Each chapter, whether addressing curriculum, pedagogy, or both, engages with the extant literature in environmental education and other relevant fields to consider how interdisciplinary curricular and pedagogical practices shed new light on our understandings of and ethical/moral obligations to animals. Embracing theories like intersectionality, posthumanism, Indigenous cosmologies, and significant life experiences, and considering topics such as equine training, meat consumption and production, urban human-animal relationships, and zoos and aquariums, the chapters collectively contribute to the field by foregrounding the lives of animals. The volume purposefully steps forward from the historical marginalization of animals in educational research and practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Liberal Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, USA

    Teresa Lloro-Bidart

  • Environmental Studies Department, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, USA

    Valerie S. Banschbach

About the editors

Teresa Lloro-Bidart is Assistant Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.

Valerie Banschbach is Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Roanoke College, USA.

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