The Voice of Animals

The most common way we come to know animals is usually by rote learning the specific features that certain kind of animals have according to a textbooks. We learn that they are mammals, birds or fish; but at school we rarely mention that they have a personality of their own and even less do we analyze whether we treat them well or badly. Have you ever wondered how animals actually feel? Have you thought about how they are treated in our society?

The Voice of Animals promotes reflection through critical thinking on different issues related to animal ethics. By raising questions it paves the way to analyze the most common themes that emerge in adolescence regarding the lives of animals, both free and captive.

Pilar Badia & Diego J. Hernandez

They are high school teachers. Aware of the importance of dealing with animal ethics also in the educational field, they began, more than ten years ago, to implement teacher training courses and from there Aula Animal bloomed, an education project based on promoting animal respect, these project has included multiple talks and workshops aimed at teachers, students and families in recent years, in addition to coordinating other educational projects. According to the authors of The Voice of Animals, both education as a transformative tool and the promotion of critical thinking are key aspects in the society in which we live.