75.048 - The Animal Question in Educational Praxis and Research: Rethinking "Justice" With Other Animals

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Drawing on the conference theme, this symposium will extend the concept of “justice” in educational practice and research to include other animals. While there is growing interest in environmental education to consider the “animal question,” some argue that the field is still profoundly anthropocentric and that there remain significant tensions among environmental education, humane education, ecopedagogy, and critical pedagogy. Emphasizing the subjecthood of animals through theoretical engagements with critical animal studies, posthumanism, multispecies ethnography, and ecofeminism and through research that accounts for the lived experience of humans and other animals in various educational spaces, we argue that “democratized knowledge and knowledge production” must be reconceptualized to move beyond humans so that the voices of all earth’s creatures can be heard.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Teresa Katrina Lloro-Bidart, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Papers

• "They're Hugging Each Other": Constructing and Co-Teaching With the (Dis) Embodied Shark - Teresa Katrina Lloro-Bidart, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

• Reimagining Convivial Cohabitation With Urban "Pest" Animals - Leesa K. Fawcett, York University

• Children's Experiences of Animal Death: Implications for Ecological Learning - Joshua James Russell, Canisius College

Discussant

• Constance L. Russell, Lakehead University