Thinking Diversity with Animals. Adolescents’ Ideas of Diversity and Anthropomorphisms

与动物的思维多样性。

• 批准号: 500049621
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Ulrich Gebhard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsgruppe 4: Schulentwicklung und Schulforschung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/500049621?language=en
• 关键词: Thinking; Diversity; Animals.; Adolescents; Ideas

Summary of the reseach project “Thinking Diversity with Animals. Adolescents’ Ideas of Diversity and Anthropomorphisms”Animals seemingly represent nature. Yet, animal representation is necessarily caught up in anthropomorphic discourses. For example, the animal is always implicitly structured along the lines of human social categories such as race, gender, and sexuality. Thinking with Animals (Daston/Mitmann 2005) is common and this project aims to take it as a starting point and to provide a qualitative analysis on how adolescents think with animals about human diversity.The project investigates how anthropomorphic depictions of animals in biological learning environments as well as adolescents’ reflections on these depictions intersect with adolescents’ ideas of (human) diversity. It will collect everyday life ideas and myths of adolescents about diversity, that are connected to meaning transfers between humans and animals. The analysis will answer two main questions: Which biological knowledge, concepts, and theories about animals are entangled with everyday life ideas and myths about (human) gender, sexuality, and cultural diversity in pupil’s Thinking with Animals? Which meanings about diversity emerge, and how, when adolescents think with animals? Our project provides detailed insights into the formation, maintaining, and transformation of two categories of difference in biological learning situations: gender and cultural diversity/migration. At the same time, the project advances the research on functions and effects of anthropomorphisms. With respect to scientific literacy, the project also explores the potential of Thinking with Animals to reflect on social categories of difference, on processes of biologizing, and on the socio-cultural situatedness of biological knowledge production. These nexuses will be investigated in a zoological garden. Following guided tours in a zoological garden, adolescents will discuss diversity in small groups.

研究项目的总结是在拟人化的人类社会类别（例如种族和动物）的人类社会类别中，在拟人化的话语中遇到了多样性。该项目的目的是将其作为一个开始，并主要对青少年在人类多样性上的思考方式进行养生分析。 （人类）多样性的思想将收集与人类和动物之间的转移有关的多样性的神话。关于（人类的）性别，性别和文化多样性的神话，以及我们的项目如何详细地融入了生物学。学习形式：性别和文化多样性/移民。 Nexuses将在一个小组中进行调查。