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A Framework Within Which to Determine How We Should Use Animals in Science Education

Reiss, MJ; (2017) A Framework Within Which to Determine How We Should Use Animals in Science Education. In: Mueller, MP and Tippins, DJ and Stewart, AJ, (eds.) Animals and Science Education: Ethics, Curriculum and Pedagogy. (pp. 243-259). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

The scope of science is fundamentally to understand the natural (i.e., material, as opposed to aesthetic, moral, imaginary or other) domain. Since one of the more remarkable features of the Earth is the presence of millions of species of organisms, nearly 90% of them animals, one might imagine that animals would play a central role in school science education. But this is not the case. Biology curricula are heavily weighted towards humans, and inside and outside of school many students are now exposed to only a few non-human animal species. Here, I seek to provide a coherent framework within which we can consider how animals should be used in science education. To do this, I examine two main issues: (i) the purposes of science education, and (ii) an ethical analysis of how humans should use animals based principally on utilitarianism informed by critiques of speciesism. My focus is K-12 though the principles also apply to pre- and post-school education.

Type: Book chapter
Title: A Framework Within Which to Determine How We Should Use Animals in Science Education
ISBN-13: 978-3319563749
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56375-6_17
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56375-6_17
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Biology curricula, Use of animals, Dissection, Bioethics, Animal rights
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574741
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