Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2003
Abstract
From the earliest years of organized animal protection in North America, humane education— the attempt to inculcate the kindness-to-animals ethic through formal or informal instruction of children— has been cast as a fruitful response to the challenge of reducing the abuse and neglect of animals. Yet, almost 140 years after the movement’s formation, humane education remains largely the province of local societies for the prevention of cruelty and their educational divisions—if they have such divisions. Efforts to institutionalize the teaching of humane treatment of animals within the larger framework of the American educational establishment have had only limited success. Moreover, knowledge, understanding, and empirical measures of the impact of humane education remain limited. In many respects humane education is best seen as an arena of untapped potential rather than one of unfulfilled promise.
Recommended Citation
Unti, B., & DeRosa, B. (2003). Humane education: Past, present, and future. In D.J. Salem & A.N. Rowan (Eds.), The state of the animals II: 2003 (pp. 27-50). Washington, DC: Humane Society Press.
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Humane Education Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons
