Palgrave Companion to Humane Education

Clair Linzey is a research fellow in animal ethics at Wycliffe Hall in the University of Oxford and deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is also the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years. He is a visiting professor of animal theology at the University of Winchester, professor of animal ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation, and special professor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago.

• Introduction: The Case for Humane Education.- Part 1 Traditions of Empathy.- Long before Aesop: Sumerian Animal Fables and Their Educational Messages.- Compassion and Character: Animal Welfare in Fictional Narratives of Moral Improvement by Nineteenth-Century English Women Writers.- The Human as Animal: Scottish Fantasy and the Importance of Imagination for Humane Empathy.- Empathy in Art.- In Defense of “Sentimental Nonsense”: Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs and Animal Compassion.- Webs of Empathy: Animal Subjectivities and the Teaching of Charlotte’s Web.- A New Binary: Creator and Created.- Moral Education and Animal Rights.- Part 2 Making Progress.- Concerning Critical Humane Education.- The Kindness-to-Animals Ethic in Antebellum America.- “Habits of Mercy”: RSPCA Humane Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain.- Deep in the Heartland: Humane Education in Oklahoma.- Is the Singapore Education System Ready to Introduce Humane Education?.- The Educational Role of Croatian Children’s Magazines in Promoting Animal Rights.- Stories from an Animal Rescue: Changing Behavior through Indirect Education.- The Importance of Seminary Education on “Creation Care” and “the Integrity of Creation”.- Part 3 Developing Practice.- Building a Bright Future: Humane Education from Theory to Practice.- “Cool to Be Kind”: An Evaluation of a Classroom-Based Humane Education Intervention.- Building Empathy through Picture Books: Grades 2 and 5 Teacher and Student Perspectives on an Animal-Themed Book Program.- Can Humane Education Motivate Students to Learn? Teachers’ Perceptions.- The Five Freedoms for Animals as a Basic Learning Requirement for All Young Learners.- An Unconscious Bias toward Non-Human Animal Exploitation in the British Schooling System.- Effect of Humane Education on Middle School Reading Comprehension.- Raising Consciousness about Animals across the Curriculum: A Personal Journey.