Animals and Science Education

• Foreword: Wild Awakedness and Animalistic Inquiry: Introducing a Book on the Role of Animals with/in Science Education, Michael P. Mueller (University of Alaska Anchorage), Arthur J. Stewart (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), and Deborah J. Tippins (University of Georgia).- Chapter 1: Worm Spit: Integrating Curriculum through a Study of Silk and the Amazing Silk Worm, Michael L. Bentley (Virginia Museum of Natural History) and Teresa Auldridge (Full Option Science System).- Chapter 2: You Can Give a Bee Some Water, But You Can’t Make Her Drink: A Socioscientific Approach to Honey Bees in Science Education, Jonathan Snow and Maria S. Rivera Maulucci (Barnard College).- Chapter 3: Engineering a Solution for Fish Waste Management, Alexandra E. West (University of Alaska Anchorage).- Chapter 4: Learning Science in Aquariums and on Whalewatching Boats—The Hidden Curriculum of the Deployment of Other Animals, Teresa Lloro-Bidart (California State Polytechnic University at Pomona) and Connie Russell (Lakehead University).- Chapter 5: Tracing the Anthrozoological Landscape of Central Iowa: Place and Pedagogical Possibilities, Cori Jakubiak (Grinnell College).- Chapter 6: Life After the Fact(ory)—Pedagogy of Care at An Animal Sanctuary, Christopher Bentley and Steve Alsop (York University).- Chapter 7: Ethical-Ecological Holism in Science Pedagogy—In Honor of Sea Urchins, Lee Beavington, Heesoon Bai, (Simon Fraser University)and Serenna Celeste Romanycia.- Chapter 8: A Story of Chicks, Science Fairs and the Ethics of Biomedical Research, Sophia Jeong, Deborah Tippins (University of Georgia), Shakhnoza Kayumova (Dartmouth University).- Chapter 9: Spiders, Rats, and Education, Jimmy Karlan (Antioch University New England).- Chapter 10: Leave the Pets Alone, Eduardo Dopico and Eva Garcia-Vazquez (University of Oviedo).- Chapter 11: Using Object-based Learning to Understand Animal Evolution, Paul Davies and Joanne Nicholl (University College London).- Chapter 12: Death in a Jar—The Study of Life, Mary Rebecca Warbington Wells (Armstrong State University).- Chapter 13: Socio-Scientific Issues for Scientific Literacy – The Evolution of an Environmental Education Program with a Focus on Birds, Andrew T. Kinslow and Troy D. Sadler (University of Missouri).- Chapter 14: Hawaiian Citizen Science—Journeys of Self Discovery and Understanding of Scientific Concepts through Culture and Nature Study in School Science Classes, Jennifer Kuwahara (University of Hawaii).- Chapter 15: Care-based Citizen Science: Nurturing an Ethic of Care to Support the Preservation of Biodiversity, Renée Lyons, Cassie Quigley and Michelle Cook (Clemson University).- Chapter 16: Mapping Conceptions of Wolf Hunting onto a Worldview ConceptualFramework—Hunting for a Worldview Theory, Teresa J. Shume (North Dakota State University).- Chapter 17: A Framework within which to Determine How We Should Use Animals in Science Education, Michael J. Reiss (University College London).- Index.

“This text is an approachable, informative, and playful resource to augment curricular and other pedagogical practices in science education with a dimension of animal ethics. … Readers involved in education at the grade school level will find this text inspiring, as will readers in educational studies. Scholars interested in practical applications of ideas from animal ethics, ecological ethics, and/or interspecies justice will find this text useful for its case studies. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” (S. M. Weiss, Choice, Vol. 55 (10), June, 2018)