Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
Genesis of the Program
Program Goals & Target Audience
Humane Edutainment Theory
•Cognitive Dissonance
•Transformative Learning
•Barriers and Enablers
Humane Edutainment Praxis
The Way Ahead
Program Goals
MTT
New Volunteers
School Audiences
Three Degrees
School Audiences
Cognitive Dissonance
Transformative Learning
“Throughout their lifetime, people make meaning out of their experiences. They
build a way of seeing the world, a way of interpreting what happens to them, and
accompanying values, beliefs, and assumptions that determine their behavior.
Much of this framework is uncritically absorbed from family, community, and
culture. People do not stop to question everything that happens to them or
everything they see and hear – they generally believe their friends, accept media
interpretations of events, and follow the principles that have guided them so far.
People have a set of expectations about the world that are based on formative
childhood experiences, and those expectations continue to act as a filter for
understanding life…When something unexpected happens, when a person
encounters something that does not fit in with his or her expectations of how
things should be, based on past experience, the choices are to reject the
unexpected or to question the expectation. When people critically examine their
habitual expectations, revise them, and act on the revised point of view,
transformative learning occurs.” (Patricia Cranton)
Transformative Learning
A Disorienting
Dilemma
Self-
Reintegration
examination
Building
Critical
competence
assessment of
and self-
assumptions
confidence
Acquiring new
Exploration of
knowledge and
options
skills
Planning a
course of action
Barriers to Change
Barriers to
Behavioral Change
“Just World Phenomenon”
Bernie Madoff
“She’s looking for trouble” John Walker Lindh
“American Taliban”
Barriers to
Behavioral Change
“Empathy Avoidance”
Barriers to
Behavioral Change
“Psychic Numbing”
Baltic
Kitty Genovese
Barriers to
Behavioral Change
“Status Quo Bias”
Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784)
“To do nothing is within the power of all men…”
Barriers to
Behavioral Change
“Linguistic Relativity”
Animal Welfare?
Animal Rights?
Animal Shelter?
Animal Rescue?
Humane Education?
Forum Theatre
Augusto Boal
(1931-2009)
Humane Edutainment Praxis
Forum Theatre
Humane Edutainment Praxis
Humane Edutainment Praxis
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Other HE Elements
Role Playing
Other HE Elements
Traditional Arts
Yudisthira's Dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0JXcPxkSGE
Other HE Elements
Brainstorming Sessions
Other HE Elements
Feedback
Communities of Practice
The Way Ahead…