관계성을 강조한 동물존중교육의 적용과 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to look for new way of animal respect education. The goal of animal respect education that the researcher explores is an educational method that respect an animal as a living creature and reconstruct the relationship between people and animals. The theory focused on the interdependent relationship between individual life and co-life was applied on the middle school. the possibility of theory in animal respect education applied to the class, after examining educational effects on the students. To confirm the change occurred in learners survey and in-depth interview were performed. Through the drawing of pig’s co-life: the program of animal respect education created in the global life theory, learners express respect, thinking a pig’s life and living from a the point of it, recognizing a pig should be treated as a living thing like a human being. Based on the relationship between humans and animals, if learners who are interested in animals and who sympathize the suffering of animals and animal welfare are educated on their lives, the goal toward the education to respect animals, ‘go the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals’ can be achieved on educational field. This study has discovered positive effects of the global life theory. Students were able to respect animals and reflect human society, after animal respect education based on co-life of the global life. However, it needs to be complemented by rigorous design of research methods.