{"id":757953,"date":"2019-08-15T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757953"},"modified":"2019-08-15T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:00:58","slug":"marc-bekoff-animal-centered-education-for-students-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757953","title":{"rendered":"Marc Bekoff: Animal-Centered Education For Students of All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MARC BEKOFF:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A recent book called Animal Rights Education by Kai Horsthemke, an Associate Professor at KU Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, caught my eye because of its emphasis on the importance of putting pedagogy and education to use to affect, change, and improve our behavior towards non-human animals\u2013for their benefit, for our benefit, and for the benefit of our planet as a whole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Part of the book&#8217;s description reads, &#8220;If animal rights education is philosophically and educationally meaningful, then it can arguably offer a powerful pedagogical tool, and facilitate lasting pro-animal changes.&#8221; Animal Rights Education is a wide-ranging read and I&#8217;m pleased that Dr. Horsthemke could take the time to answer a few questions about his novel and forward-looking book. Our interview went as follows&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/animal-emotions\/201908\/animal-centered-education-students-all-ages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_YtER0YHMdc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARC BEKOFF: &#8216;A recent book called Animal Rights Education by Kai Horsthemke, an Associate Professor at KU Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, caught my eye because of its emphasis on the importance of putting pedagogy and education to use to affect, change, and improve our behavior towards non-human animals\u2013for their benefit, for our benefit, and for the benefit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,21,23],"tags":[26,30,35,37],"class_list":["post-757953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-compassion","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757955,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757953\/revisions\/757955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}