Thinking Across/Through the Species Divide: Nonhuman Animals in Educational Theory and Research

• In Event: Roundtable Session 117

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Educational theory has been squarely fixed on the “human” experience, but there are nonhuman animals that exist on the periphery of educational thought. Examining their representations, the conditions in which they become “food”, to how they are tied to masculinity provides opportunities to explore ways in which multiple forms of oppression intersect. Although nonhumans appear outside the concerns of education, the way we construct nonhumans gives us a better understanding of what Michel Foucault (1980) called “regimes of truth”. Linked to an agenda of social justice that has emerged, the treatment of nonhuman animals needs to be addressed by scholars that seek to change structures of oppression that affect all of life on this planet.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• E. Wayne Ross, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• Lured by the Animal: Rethinking Nonhuman Animals in Educational Discourses - Abraham P. Deleon, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Nothing but the Dog in Me: Critical Race Theory and the African American Construct of Canines as Nonhuman Animals - Michael E. Jennings, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Meet Them at the Plate: Reflections on the Eating of Animals - Cory D. Wright-Maley, St. Mary's University College

• Animals-Becoming-Meat: Embracing a Disturbing Education - Bradley D. Rowe, The Ohio State University