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Animal Rights/Vegan Activists' Strategies

The Significance of Humane Education in a Sanctuary Setting

From The Open Sanctuary Project
February 2024

Animal sanctuaries offer people a unique opportunity to learn about and engage with the world in a more ecocentric environment, helping learners actively consider the perspectives of nonhuman animals.

Animal sanctuaries offer people a unique opportunity to learn about and engage with the world in a more ecocentric environment, helping learners actively consider the perspectives of nonhuman animals.

Whether via in-person or virtual education programs, sanctuaries can connect their communities to animals in a way other learning environments cannot.

As a theory and practice of teaching that is committed to the politics of liberation and representation of the intrinsic value of all beings, humane education can help sanctuaries facilitate this connection more effectively with the integration of the pedagogy’s core components into their educational programming.

According to the Institute for Humane Education, humane education encompasses four main elements, all of which can comfortably be integrated into a sanctuary setting.

Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.

Including:

• Element One: Providing accurate information about the issues of our time so people have the information they need to discern fact from opinion and understand the consequences of their decisions as citizens
• Element Two: Fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical-, strategic-, and systems- thinking so people can evaluate information and solve problems collaboratively
• Wait – how are these things connected to animals?
• Element Three: Instilling compassion, empathy, respect, and responsibility so people have the motivation to face challenges and act with integrity
• Element Four: Offering positive choices that benefit oneself, other people, animals, and Earth
  
  

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