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What a superb question!
On the topic of whether dogs can be educators themselves: some years ago Andy Walsh and I edited an “anarcho-narrative unbook” – a
collection of narratives and critiques around information literacy. In the introduction we noted that in one contribution (by David Mathews),
learning is entirely practical and extra-textual. Horses, humans, and the author-observer all experience learning as a process of becoming, of
extending the identity. Even the dogs are learning to become guardians or gatekeepers: “Zack was teaching Bonnie how to fight and to bark with more aggression”.
Em.
PS The
book is online and open access : )
Dr. Emma Coonan
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Subject: Hoping folk think these questions of relevance/interest - can dogs be educated? can dogs be educators?
Hi all – hoping folk think this is relevant/of interest (as I do) for the list – as to discussions about what learning (and teaching) is
– and who can learn – and how?
Looking for folks thoughts, on the following questions:
Do you believe that dogs (and/or other animals/species) can be educated?
Further, do you believe they can be educators, not merely learners but teachers?
(relatedly - is there inevitably a teacher, if learning is happening?)
Interested not just in your takes, but how you think these issues are viewed by
- the critical education community
- the mainstream education community
All best
G
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"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity
or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that
ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable." Hannah Arendt (The Crisis of Education)
"it is impossible to imagine a future unless we have located ourselves in the present and its history; however, the reverse is also true in that we cannot locate ourselves in the present and its
history unless we imagine the future and commit to creating it" (Anna Stetsenko, 2015).
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