1. The Role of Humane Education in Achieving Lasting Behaviour Change
Africa Animal Welfare Conference
Overview:
Sustainable solutions for creating change with education at the core
How humane education helps develop change at the personal and community level
ICHE and need/ Evaluation results (affective learning half as large as the cognitive learning)
2017

2. The Promise of Humane education
Encourages empathy and compassion toward people, animals, and our environment
Builds perspective for others (human and animal)
Helps people recognize the interconnection among the three components and how prosocial or positive feelings and actions creates a positive impact in multiple ways
Humane education involves far more than the teaching of animal-related content and lessons. Humane educators teach about animal welfare, environmental, and civic and social justice topics. Through the concepts involved in humane education each educator has the chance to assist students and communities in developing compassion, a sense of fairness and justice, and respect for all living beings. Humane educators are also tasked with the important role of modeling and providing the necessary resources so that students practice these behaviors and principles in their daily lives and that humane concepts are affirmed in the personal lives of their students.

3. Organization Shares Responsibility for Animal Welfare
Community Takes Responsibility for Animal Welfare

4. Organization Shares Responsibility for Animal Welfare
Community Takes Responsibility for Animal Welfare

5. Organization Shares Responsibility for Animal Welfare
Veterinary
Training
Teacher
Children’s
Education
(cognitive)
Community
(mechanistic)
(affective)
(empathic)
Animal
Health
Services
Awareness
Husbandry
Skills &
Provision
Community Takes Responsibility for Animal Welfare

6. How do we Connect to more than the cognitive?
Humane Education and the Prosocial Teacher ¦ October 2017

7. What is your reaction? Look closely at the photos What do you KNOW?
What do you FEEL?
What do you WANT TO DO?
These photos most likely activated your brain and your three domains of learning ---cognitive-affective-psychomotor
We naturally incorporate emotion into our learning and into our choices. It is often an unconscious choice and action is based on belief.

8. How do we reach more than just the cognitive?
Head
Affective
Heart
Psychomotor
Hands
So, how do we reach people at more than a factual or cognitive level so we can bring about lasting behaviour change? First, as Stephen mentioned we must provide the facts or the awareness building. The cognitive component is important, it is the core. But then, we must acknowledge the power of the affective domain – our emotional connection to ideas and knowledge.
As Stephen stated, when we reach only the cognitive domain and teach only facts, we are not creating the long-term change needed to help empower people.
We must engage learners in our community by developing outreach and education materials that reach their head, heart, and hands.
I encourage you to think about how each domain is related and how the connection between the affective and cognitive domain specifically relate to the work done in humane and prosocial education. As you create materials promoting humane ethics, you will be teaching the whole child.

9. Cognitive Domain Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
Focuses on intellectual skills
Core domain
We are going to spend some time looking at the idea of learning and how learning, feeling, and acting or behavior are connected. A lot of what we will review was spearheaded by Dr. Benjamin Bloom. The original taxonomy (the cognitive domain on the left) was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education.
Another way to think about the domains and how they are connected is to think of them as “the full body” of learning. They work together and all require a cognitive component.
The cognitive domain is the main domain and focuses on intellectual skills; or mental skills of knowledge. We need this in order to know enough to take action and feel connected to academics-just like in the discussion about the photos.

10. Characterizing by Value Set
Affective Domain
Characterizing by Value Set
Organization
Valuing
Responding
Receiving
Our attitudes and motivation
How we value what is being learned
Emotional connection to the world around us and what we choose to do
The affective domain refers to growth in feelings or emotional areas; it deals with attitudes, motivation, willingness to participate, valuing what is being learned, and ultimately incorporating the values of a discipline into a way of life. The affective domain refers to emotions as well as their outward expression.

11. psychomotor Domain Naturalization Articulation Precision Manipulation
Imitation
Reflex Movements
Physical action and skills; behavior
Connected to the Affective Domain: the power that motivates any effort or action; desire or will to perform an action
The Psychomotor domain includes physical and motor (or muscular) skills. In learning there is a progression from mere physical experience - seeing, touching, moving etc. - through the carrying out of complex skills under guidance, to the performance of skilled activities independently. The psychomotor domain refers to physical skills – in humane and prosocial education, think of this domain as the practice for prosocial behavior that helps it to become muscle memory/ skilled movement
It is related to Conation (the component of mind) -The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving; an inclination to act purposefully; It is closely associated with the concept of volition, defined as the use of will, or the freedom to make choices about what to do (Kane, 1985; Mischel, 1996). It is absolutely critical if an individual is to successfully engage in self-direction and self-regulation. conation is necessary to explain how knowledge and emotion are translated into behavior in human beings.
The Three Domains of Learning
Three domains of educational activities or learning were identified (Bloom, 1956):
Cognitive: mental skills (knowledge)
Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (attitude or self)
Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)

12. The Learning Domains Working Together = Behaviour change
Cognitive
Head
Affective
Heart
Psychomotor
Hands

13. Humane Education In Practice
Model humane behaviors; provide alternatives to inhumane behavior
Ask open-ended questions
Share stories to enhance empathy
Ask learners to think about their beliefs
Develop projects that empower children to make age-appropriate changes to solve a problem
Give students responsibility to practice new humane behaviours
Allow children to practice caring for pretend equid to reinforce positive habits
Review a few of these- focusing on the items that can be for both adults and children
Note that Christelle will be utilizing some of these in her lesson presentation
Share example of goal of good equid care and allowing for hands-on practice while young
Citation:

14. International Certificate in Humane Education
Building Capacity through Education
Supporting Positive Community Change for People, Animals, and the Environment
Humane education is:
empowering people to solve problems and take care of needs

15. Stephen Albone Ph.D., CHES Stephanie Itle-Clark Ed.D., CHES
Humane Education and the Prosocial Teacher ¦ October 2017