Talk: How to teach children respect for animals
El próximo Wednesday, January 23 la Asociación de profesores y maestros Animal Class impartirá una charla gratuita destinada a madres y padres sobre cómo transmitir el respeto a los animales a niños y adolescentes. La charla tendrá lugar a las 7:00 PMen el centro Joaquín Roncal (C/ San Braulio 5-7, Zaragoza). A theoretical introduction will […]
Our stance on animals in parades, in Heraldo de Aragón
Heraldo de Aragón ha publicado nuestro breve artículo de opinión a raíz de que el pasado 5 de enero el Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza utilizara a más de un centenar de ocas en la cabalgata de Reyes. ¡Lo compartimos con vosotros! With the typical excitement of every January 5th, the youngest children watched yesterday as a […]
Comic strips for classroom use
These drawings and cartoons can serve as a resource in the classroom for students to reflect, discuss and express what their authors want to convey.
My wish for animals, from Animal Equality
Image: Animal Equality As they did last year in Madrid, the animal rights organization Igualdad Animal has invited children in Mexico to express their wishes for animals in the coming year. It's a moving way to give children a voice so they can express their hopes for those who cannot speak for themselves. The activists […]
Troubled children and animals
La intolerancia también diversifica lo que en los niños es “amistad” de lo que es “complicidad”. La amistad está hecha de tolerancia, de aceptación, de maduración. Aceptar al otro tal cual es, requiere sentirse igual a él, sentirse seguro. Complicity thrives on feelings of inferiority or insignificance. (…) Exploited children, so insecure about forming bonds, […]
Workshop for the little ones: Let's make veganism fun (III)
Esta tercera propuesta de talleres creativos de cocina tiene una orientación navideña. Como las previous pretende mostrar que la comida libre de productos de origen animal -además de ser respetuosa con los animales y fomentar la empatía- puede ser divertida y atractiva.
Explaining nonverbal communication
The book "9 Key Ideas: Cooperative Learning," by Pere Pujolás, recounts how, in a group of eight-year-old students that included an autistic child—whom he calls S—both the "typical" students and the autistic student benefited greatly from the teachers' approach. Among other examples, he explains that the other students came to understand what nonverbal communication is. […]
A blind boy raises money so his friend Brody doesn't lose his sight.
Jack McPadden, un niño de 12 años de Winchester, Massachusetts está muy preocupado por su amigo canino Brody, quien padece una enfermedad de córnea y corre el riesgo de quedar ciego. McPadden perdió la visión cuando tenía nueve meses debido a un cáncer, algo que ha facilitado comprender su situación. Brody es un Boston Terrier […]
Reflecting on the different forms of discrimination through Coetzee
Starring a literature professor who is forced to leave the University after being accused of sexually harassing a student, in this work Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee introduces us to the deepest problems of a South Africa plagued by the social tensions resulting from apartheid. Misfortune es una obra dura cuyo hilo conductor es el […]
Coloring pages that promote equality
Recientemente hemos colgado un post de coloring pages that promote speciesism. Hoy queremos proponer alternativas. The internet offers countless coloring pages depicting animals behaving naturally, not as resources for humans. These resources help students understand that other animals also have interests as individuals. This drawing, by Educima, shows that the sheep's milk is for her […]