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ANIPHI: An innovative pedagogical platform based on the Delphi method to support animal welfare teaching

As a teaching subject, animal welfare is challenging for educators and learners, as was recently shown in a recent survey on the evolution of animal welfare teaching in Europe. Among several suggestions to overcome the current resistance to implementing animal welfare education, we highlight two. Th...

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Autores principales: Vieira, Ana C. L., Vidal, Michel, Menassol, Jean-Baptiste, Mateus, Teresa Letra, Santos, Ana Sofia, Durieux, Jean-Pierre, Oliveira, Mónica D.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36331962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277189
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author Vieira, Ana C. L.
Vidal, Michel
Menassol, Jean-Baptiste
Mateus, Teresa Letra
Santos, Ana Sofia
Durieux, Jean-Pierre
Oliveira, Mónica D.
author_facet Vieira, Ana C. L.
Vidal, Michel
Menassol, Jean-Baptiste
Mateus, Teresa Letra
Santos, Ana Sofia
Durieux, Jean-Pierre
Oliveira, Mónica D.
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description As a teaching subject, animal welfare is challenging for educators and learners, as was recently shown in a recent survey on the evolution of animal welfare teaching in Europe. Among several suggestions to overcome the current resistance to implementing animal welfare education, we highlight two. The first is that animal welfare education should be based on learner-centred approaches; the second is that it should encompass both animal welfare science and ethics and law. To the best of our knowledge, there are no learner-centred pedagogical approaches that can simultaneously explore scientific and ethical concepts. Furthermore, when exploring ethical concepts within the educational context, there is the additional challenge of being able to depart from discussion and debate to a systematic organization of knowledge. Our work simultaneously addresses these two challenges, presenting the design and implementation of a novel web-based learner-centred pedagogical platform for farm animal welfare teaching. The platform, named ANIPHI, uses the Delphi method’s iterative nature as a learning process to generate both reflection and (online) debate among learners. ANIPHI can be used by educators in an online environment, in a classroom environment, or in a combination of the two environments. ANIPHI was developed within the ERASMUS+ ANICARE project and is an open web-based platform for all educators interested in teaching farm animal welfare. Given ANIPHI’s flexible and user-friendly nature, the platform simultaneously exposes learners to ethical and scientific concepts in different educational realities, according to the educator’s objectives. Furthermore, videos depicting different husbandry practices across different types of animal production and countries are embedded in the platform. These videos are commented on by the farmer himself and by animal scientists, which enriches the learner’s experience. Educators across the ANICARE consortium have already successfully tested the ANIPHI platform for different farm animal welfare topics. We conclude this article by presenting one example of using ANIPHI in a real-life educational context, where we discuss some aspects of the design and use of our pedagogical platform.
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spelling pubmed-96357512022-11-05 ANIPHI: An innovative pedagogical platform based on the Delphi method to support animal welfare teaching Vieira, Ana C. L. Vidal, Michel Menassol, Jean-Baptiste Mateus, Teresa Letra Santos, Ana Sofia Durieux, Jean-Pierre Oliveira, Mónica D. PLoS One Research Article As a teaching subject, animal welfare is challenging for educators and learners, as was recently shown in a recent survey on the evolution of animal welfare teaching in Europe. Among several suggestions to overcome the current resistance to implementing animal welfare education, we highlight two. The first is that animal welfare education should be based on learner-centred approaches; the second is that it should encompass both animal welfare science and ethics and law. To the best of our knowledge, there are no learner-centred pedagogical approaches that can simultaneously explore scientific and ethical concepts. Furthermore, when exploring ethical concepts within the educational context, there is the additional challenge of being able to depart from discussion and debate to a systematic organization of knowledge. Our work simultaneously addresses these two challenges, presenting the design and implementation of a novel web-based learner-centred pedagogical platform for farm animal welfare teaching. The platform, named ANIPHI, uses the Delphi method’s iterative nature as a learning process to generate both reflection and (online) debate among learners. ANIPHI can be used by educators in an online environment, in a classroom environment, or in a combination of the two environments. ANIPHI was developed within the ERASMUS+ ANICARE project and is an open web-based platform for all educators interested in teaching farm animal welfare. Given ANIPHI’s flexible and user-friendly nature, the platform simultaneously exposes learners to ethical and scientific concepts in different educational realities, according to the educator’s objectives. Furthermore, videos depicting different husbandry practices across different types of animal production and countries are embedded in the platform. These videos are commented on by the farmer himself and by animal scientists, which enriches the learner’s experience. Educators across the ANICARE consortium have already successfully tested the ANIPHI platform for different farm animal welfare topics. We conclude this article by presenting one example of using ANIPHI in a real-life educational context, where we discuss some aspects of the design and use of our pedagogical platform. Public Library of Science 2022-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9635751/ /pubmed/36331962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277189 Text en © 2022 Vieira et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Menassol, Jean-Baptiste
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Santos, Ana Sofia
Durieux, Jean-Pierre
Oliveira, Mónica D.
ANIPHI: An innovative pedagogical platform based on the Delphi method to support animal welfare teaching
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36331962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277189
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