iSweatshop? Listen to “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”

Posted on January 11, 2012 by zoeweil

Last weekend, I listened to Mike Daisey’s riveting monologue on the radio show This American Life about his trip to Shenzhen, China, to visit the factories where his electronics — specifically his Apple products — are made. I urge readers of this blog to listen to this episode, which includes not only Mike Daisey’s account, [...]

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For Deconstructing Advertising “Jingles Every Day”

Posted on December 7, 2011 by zoeweil

Jodie Hittle presented a 7-minute TEDx “poem” that is hilarious, clever, entertaining, but most important of all, elucidating, and one of the most important tools humane educators can use in their efforts to help their students deconstruct advertising and gain some freedom from the insidious brainwashing that occurs through commercial messages which bombard us every [...]

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A Case for Humane Education

Posted on September 30, 2011 by zoeweil

As my blog post today, I want to share humane educator, Tim Donohue’s, excellent essay in Independent Teacher, “A Case for Humane Education.” Here’s an excerpt; enjoy!: Against a student’s slate of classes that includes Hamlet’s potential suicide, the Holocaust, entropy, La Biographie de Robespierre, and the rules of trapezoids, humane education allows students to [...]

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Exposing the Impact of Our Choices on Nonhuman Animals

Posted on September 23, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from Exposing the Impact of Our Choices on Nonhuman Animals: “In 1985, I was fascinated by what I’d read about Sarah, a chimpanzee who could use a [...]

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Coincidences, Patterns, Beliefs and Baloney-Detection: A Call for Humane Education

Posted on September 14, 2011 by zoeweil

As readers of my blog know, I’m a skeptic. To the best of my ability I base my beliefs on scientific, rather than anecdotal evidence, and I am fairly demanding of substantiation when people make unvalidated claims and assumptions or present belief systems as facts. I’m particularly uncomfortable with some of the overarching generalizations I [...]

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Returning to School: Education for a Livable Planet

Posted on September 5, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here’s an excerpt from “Returning to School: Education for a Livable Planet”: “Students and teachers are returning to school. I know few in either group who are genuinely excited at the prospect. This is a travesty [...]

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Making MOGO (most good) Choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger

Posted on August 29, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for One Green Planet, a blog dedicated to ethical choices. Here’s an excerpt from “Making MOGO (most good) choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger”: “We eat many times each day, and there is no other daily choice that has a bigger impact [...]

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Humane Educators’ Toolbox: 12 Angry Men

Posted on July 18, 2011 by zoeweil

I watched the classic film, 12 Angry Men, recently, and I was struck by the ways in which the film so accurately depicts what social psychology experiments reveal about people’s willingness to suspend their own thinking faculties to go along with the group [in particular, the Asch experiments, in which individuals deny their own senses [...]

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Sam Chaltain and the Freedom to Learn

Posted on July 4, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I want to share an excellent, thought-provoking TEDx talk by educator, Sam Chaltain, “The Freedom to Learn.” Take a look and then ponder your own stories of learning: Sam has just joined our board of advisors at the Institute for Humane Education, and we’ll be working with him on an [...]

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John Hunter and the World Peace Game

Posted on July 1, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I want to share an amazing TED talk by educator, John Hunter. Take a look and please share this: I am hoping to learn more from John and look forward to opportunities we may forge with him to incorporate this brilliant World Peace Game into the future work of humane [...]

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