What Do Humane Educators Do?
Many people ask us this question. Comprehensive humane education is still a new field, and our students and graduates are pioneers, creating the field and the body of literature (writing) around it.
Our students and grads are taking what they’ve learned from our programs and using their creativity and problem solving to manifest humane education in a variety of ways. Here is a list of what some of them are doing/planning:
- Some teach in traditional classrooms (all levels and any discipline can be enriched by a background in humane education).
Example: A high school social studies teacher in California
Example: A high school science teacher in Oregon
- Some work in educational outreach for a single-issue non-profit (environmental, human rights or animal protection organizations, humane societies, etc.) where a more holistic orientation to the issue such as one receives in our programs is often welcome.
Example: The Program Director for Healing Species Puget Sound
Example: The Director of Organizational & Higher Education Partnerships for the Northwest Earth Institute
Example: Founder of Humane Educators Reaching Out
- Some teach early childhood education in day care centers and pre-schools.
- Some apply humane education in home schooling environments.
- Some students focus on teaching others about humane parenting.
Example: Beautiful Friendships
- Some like to educate through art and plan to bring humane education issues into the public forum as writers, visual artists, television writers and producers, filmmakers, and musicians.
Example: One student writes a column about animal issues for her local newspaper.
Example: One graduate has published a book for kids.
- We have outdoor educators, activists and people who work in web design and who are using the internet to get the word out.
- Some are interested in working on the legal aspect of justice.
- Some who go on for their Ph.D. or Ed.D. are interested in furthering the mission of humane education through academia.
- Some take an international focus: one student is bringing the humane education philosophy to his entire region in Kenya, another is presenting at international conferences in the Middle East and Asia, and others hope to establish humane education as a field in India and Puerto Rico.
- One student, a career educator, has laid the groundwork for opening humane education charter schools in California.
- One student is a practicing vet, working to integrate humane education philosophies and practices into the veterinary profession.
- Some graduates are opening for-profit companies and consulting firms guided by their knowledge of humane issues.
Example: Provokare
Example: Green Diamond Consulting
- One graduate helped to create Just Choices, a video and lesson plan, which teaches students about social justice issues. This program was distributed to every high school in the U.S., making it the largest humane education effort in the nation's history of its kind.
- One student is the humane educator for the Detroit Zoo, the only one of her kind in the U.S.
- Some students focus on education people through their food choices, and the interconnectedness of what we eat to all areas of the earth.
Example: BUGS (Boise Urban Garden School)
- Several have created (or are participating in) organizations that offer humane education presentations to schools and community groups.
Example: HEART (Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers)
Example: The Empathy Project
Example: The Compassionate Living Project
Example: Humane Nation Foundation
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Teaching for the 21st Century Humane Education Workshop
April 28, 2012 - 8:30 am to April 28, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Location: Nightingale-Bamford School
How can we best prepare our students for the important roles they must play in meeting the challenges of today's world? How can we help youth to become creative and critical thinkers who embody the qualities of wisdom, compassion, and integrity and who focus their grea...
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April 28, 2012 - 8:30 am to April 28, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Location: Nightingale-Bamford School
How can we best prepare our students for the important roles they must play in meeting the challenges of today's world? How can we help youth to become creative and critical thinkers who embody the qualities of wisdom, compassion, and integrity and who focus their grea...
Read More