Educating in Animality: The Face of the Other in Non-human Animals
Keywords:
Bio-centered education, Inter-animality, Interspecies hospitality, Cognitive mediation, TransferAbstract
This contribution’s perspective is biocentric, on the inalienable right of every animal (without the adjectives human/non-human) to be recognized as an individual. Moving from a synthetic research/state of art presentation on the animal – human relationship reshaping, the reflection articulates in three points: 1. the non-human animal host concept; 2. the non-human individuality concept; 3. the opportunity to educate about the porous boundaries between different animalities and interspecies hospitality: educating in animality is a duty, precisely because we have not lived in a world that has taught us to view it except in terms of human advantage. These advantages, moreover, are not neglected here: dialogue with the animal host is valued as a catalyst for dispositional transfer, both in the construction of individual personality and in the realization of social personality constructs.
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