Teaching liberation: essays on social justice, animals, veganism, and education

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Introduction: making animals relevant in education / Agnes Trzak -- Dismantling the human/animal divide in education: the case for critical humane education / Sarah Rose Olson -- Our bodies, complex and connected: analyzing interconnected oppressions as a methodological basis for a liberating pedagogy / Beti Scott Brown -- Modeling dissent: teachers as protectors, activists, and public intellectuals / Jacqueline Adamescu -- Including an anti-speciesist practice in my work with neurodiverse youth / Riley J. Taylor -- Learning about animals: how we are taught to ignore animal oppression / Susan M. Roberts -- What zoos teach us: speciesism, colonialism, racism, and capitalism in the captive animal industry / Liz Tyson and Nicola O'Brien -- Ecocriticism in the classroom and at home: generating a new ethical and ecological consciousness through fairy tales / Tanja Badalic̆ -- Including non-vegans in developing and delivering an anti-speciesist pedagogy to children / Tânia Regina Vizachri, Adriana Regina Braga, and Luís Paulo de Carvalho Piassi -- "The things we choose to teach are political decisions. So, embrace that.": neoliberalism, the academy, and critical animal studies educators / Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor -- What we can learn about vegan education from anarchist philosophy and animal liberation activists / Will Boisseau -- Teaching men: what men (and all of us) need to consider when communicating for veganism / Agnes Trzak -- Muscles, meat, and masculinity: obstacles to a vegan teaching practice in the sports sciences / Blane Abercrombie -- Working with the imagination and a corporeal pedagogy to foster interspecies empathy / Terry Hurtado