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HUMANE EDUCATION

Institution: International Institute for Humane Education
Course Title: Introduction to Humane Education (EIH 620)
Instructor: Zoe Weil, International Institute for Humane Education, P.O. Box 260, Surry, ME 04684, (207) 667-1025, [email protected]
Summary: This directed study introduces the field of humane education and helps students acquire skills and knowledge needed by the humane educator. Specifically, the course introduces teaching and learning styles and provides strategies to present and communicate principles and issues of humane education in the community. (Distance learning module available through affiliation with the International Institute for Humane Education, Surry, ME) Other interrelated humane education courses in the program include Animal Protection, Environmental Preservation, Culture and Media, and Human Rights.

Institution: International Institute for Humane Education
Course Title: Animal Protection (EIH 630)
Instructors: Zoe Weil, International Institute for Humane Education, P.O. Box 260, Surry, ME 04684, (207) 667-1025, [email protected]
Summary: Prerequisite: EIH620 Through books, articles and videos, students are exposed to a variety of issues (animal agriculture, experimentation,entertainment, hunting, companion animal) and views pertaining to animal protection and rights. This module provides information for students to consider and evaluate for the purposeof educating others—children, teens, or adults—who play various roles in society and assume different positions on these issues. Students respond in short written assignments, essays and projects, and participate in regular consultation with the instructor. (Distance learning module available through affiliation with the International Institute for Humane Education, Surry, ME) Other interrelated humane education courses in the program include Animal Protection, Environmental Preservation, Culture and Media, and Human Rights.

Institution: Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL 33176
Course Title: Humane Education: Compassion Across the College Curriculum
Instructor: Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton, Animal Ethics Study Center, 1101 SW 104 St., Miami, FL 33176-3393, 305-237-2990, [email protected]
Summary: The Animal-Ethics Center provides training and educational events for faculty, students and the local community in Miami. The center runs humane education training programs for faculty, encouraging teachers to consider and incorporate ideas of compassion and community in the college curriculum. The center also holds an ‘animal awareness week’ with events, films and keynote, highly reputed speakers [such as Steven Wise and Tom Regan]. The center’s wide reach into the community and its focus on teacher training ensures that their efforts to increase knowledge and understanding of animal issues will be highly effective.

Institution: Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA 01602-2597, [email protected]
Course Title: Symbolism and Spirit of the Animal Kingdom: Cross-curricular Activities for the K-8 Classroom
Instructors: Belinda Recio, Center for Effective Instruction, 508-929-8873

Summary: There is a natural affinity between humankind and other animals, especially in childhood. This course honors and celebrates animal presence in our lives by regarding animals (and their symbolic/spiritual signatures) as teachers. In the first part of this course we will explore the human-animal relationship as embodied in the symbolic language of mythology, folklore, spiritual traditions, poetry, and visual arts from a diversity of world cultures throughout different eras of human history. We will look at how our experience of animals and our participation in their "otherness" helps us to understand our world and ourselves, particularly during childhood. In the second half of the course we will integrate the subject matter by developing and sharing lesson plans and building bridges across the curriculum.

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