The Interspecies Crisis as a Neglected Part of the World Crisis. Unraveling Pedagogical Dynamics Endangering Both Human and Nonhuman Animals
摘要
This article illustrates how the interspecies crisis plays into the world crisis in the current period of the Anthropocene by pointing firstly to problematic pedagogical practices and secondly to anthropocentric assumptions at the theoretical level. It is striking that while concepts such as global citizenship education (GCE) address, question, and attempt to transcend national and cultural boundaries, the species boundary remains stable, with far-reaching direct negative and violent consequences for many nonhuman animal species. This can be reconstructed in many of the sustainability goals that are part of GCE, four of which I examine here. This article discusses epistemological and theoretical alternatives and brings these together with the existing benefits of global citizenship education to form a concept of world citizenship education.