Animal Edutainment in a Neoliberal Era is a rich and beautifully
written multispecies ethnographic monograph that explores pedagogy and
practice at a Southern California aquarium housing and displaying over
10,000 animals. Drawing on extensive interviews with aquarium staff
and visitors, as well as fieldwork interacting with and observing
human-animal interactions, the book demonstrates the complex ways in
which aquarium animals are politically deployed in teaching and
learning processes. Weaving together insights from anthropology,
critical geography, environmental education, and political ecology,
Teresa Lloro crafts a three-pronged "political ecology of education
lens," illuminating how neoliberal ideologies interact at various
scales (local, regional, national, and global) to deeply shape
aquarium decision-making and practice. Acknowledging that
neoliberalism enrolls humans and other animals in teaching and
learning in new and often poorly understood ways, this study
challenges the anthropocentrism of contemporary informal educational
approaches, suggesting that imaginative ways forward will require a
paradigm shift in regarding the role of animals in education.
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Politics, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Contemporary Aquarium
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433174148
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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