Pedagogy for animal liberation

Insights from collaborative activist research in Swedish schools

PRESENTATION

Room A + online

The presentation explores possibilities for the animal rights movement to engage with critical animal pedagogy, a critical pedagogy standing in open solidarity with nonhuman animals, both within formal education and beyond. It points to possibilities for creating pedagogies with the potential to address, disturb, and disrupt current exploitative human-animal relations and enable a re-thinking and re-learning of how to live together with other species. The presentation draws upon a collaborative research project in which scholars, teachers, students, and animal rights activists discussed, developed, and introduced critical animal pedagogy in practice in two Swedish upper secondary schools, with students aged 15-20 years old. The talk points to possibilities for nonhuman animals to be approached as subjects, and animal oppression to be critically addressed from the perspectives of those who are oppressed.