Aula Animal

For an education from respect for animals

Through critical thinking, we promote a process of reflection on the way we relate to other animals in our day to day. Should we take other animals into consideration? What role does the school play in this process? How to deal with these issues in the classroom?

We bet on educational innovation in values through the promotion of critical thinking by students on issues that affect our daily lives, focusing on one of the least discussed topics in school: Is it okay how we relate to other animals?

Critical thinking

Aula Animal is an educational project that carries out initiatives aimed at teachers, students and other people linked to education with the aim of promoting respect for animals in childhood and adolescence, the school being a key space for social transformation.

Teaching resources

On this website we put at your disposal educational materials both for teacher training who want to carry out these issues in the classroom, as didactic resources to use in class with students. All the material is its own and free to use. 

Presentation of the project

The voice of animals

Aimed at adolescents and with an educational purpose, the book the voice of animals It invites a reflection through critical thinking on different questions of animal ethics that arise when we think of the lives of animals, both in freedom and in captivity.

You can download it for free by registering on our form.

Frequently Asked Questions

Animal Aula is an anti-specialist educational project that began its activity in 2011. After more than a decade of activism, a small group of secondary school teachers began this project at that time in order to introduce education from respect for animals in schools and institutes. 

During all these years our activities have reached hundreds of students and teachers from Spain and Latin America, and we have been lucky to collaborate and work together with other teachers interested in the animal issue, as well as with other organizations in defense of animals..

Aula Animal is a non-profit association located in Spain. However, we also carry out online activities, mainly talks and reading workshops on the voice of the animals, Destined for students from 10 years old until the university. Do not hesitate to write us if you are interested in carrying out any activity.

In educational activities we use three fundamental pillars: 

  • The development of empathy through ethology. We show what the lives of animals are like, their ability to feel and their interests. 
  • The development of critical thinking: we propose different positions and the arguments on which both opinions are supported. 
  • The use of the philosophical question in order to make students think and reflect: What animal do you think of when we talk about animal abuse?, could you define what animal abuse is for you? Do humans cause harm to animals without being necessary?

On our website there are some educational videos on how to approach issues related to animal ethics in the different school stages. 

In addition, we periodically organize online workshops for teacher training, as well as sessions and face-to-face courses. If you want to have the information of the activities we carry out, do not hesitate to register in our mailing list.

From Aula Animal it will be a pleasure to support you and share our resources and our experience so that there are more and more people involved in education from respect for animals..

All the resources are absolutely free and freely available, most of them are their own and others have been shared by anti-species teachers for animal classrooms. The book the voice of animals, , Can be downloaded for free.

We also carry out awareness workshops with other entities that have an interest in animal respect and anti-specialism. During these years we have carried out activities in many associations, also in prisons, family associations, private companies and diversity of groups.