Deadline: 2021-03-21
Contact: Bryan H. Nichols, Florida Atlantic University
Email: bryanhnichols@gmail.com

Deadline extended to March 26, 2021

Narrative, like science, empathy, and anger, can be conceived of as a powerful but amoral tool that may be used for a wide range of means and ends. Many educators, with varying degrees of success, use stories to teach or nurture compassion for nonhuman animals. Stories for children, videos for adolescents, books and movies for adults, whatever the media the focus for this panel is on compelling storytelling, framed by educators who are deliberately employing the narrative(s) to increase, generate, or nurture compassion across species. This work necessarily draws from the arts, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, cultural anthropology, natural history research, and pedagogy, highlighting the diverse challenges and opportunities involved. The panel will include a pragmatic framework to help define, deploy, and measure education for interspecies compassion more effectively. Educators who have attempted to teach it using narratives, whether authors themselves or not, are invited to develop a proposal summarizing their work, their successes and challenges, and their needs. Email proposals to Bryan H. Nichols by March 21 for consideration in the panel.

EmergencE/Y: ASLE 2021 Virtual Conference

July 26-August 6, 2021

Posted on February 27, 2021