This book discusses how we can inspire today's youth to engage in challenging and productive discussions around the past, present and future role of animals in science education. Animals play a large role in the sciences and science education and yet they remain one of the least visible topics in the educational literature. This book is intended to cultivate research topics, conversations, and dispositions for the ethical use of animals in science and education. This book explores the vital role of animals with/in science education, specimens, protected species, and other associated issues with regards to the role of animals in science. Topics explored include ethical, curriculum and pedagogical dimensions, involving invertebrates, engineering solutions that contribute to ecosystems, the experiences of animals under our care, aesthetic and contemplative practices alongside science, school-based ethical dialogue, nature study for promoting inquiry and sustainability, the challenge of whether animals need to be used for science whatsoever, reconceptualizing museum specimens, cultivating socioscientific issues and epistemic practice, cultural integrity and citizen science, the care and nurturance of gender-balanced curriculum choices for science education, and theoretical conversations around cultivating critical thinking skills and ethical dispositions. The diverse authors in this book take on the logic of domination and symbolic violence embodied within the scientific enterprise that has systematically subjugated animals and nature, and emboldened the anthropocentric and exploitative expressions for the future role of animals.

Foreword: Wild Awakedness and Animalistic Inquiry: Introducing a Book on the Role of Animals with/in Science Education, Michael P. Mueller (University of Alaska Anchorage), Arthur J. Stewart (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), and Deborah J. Tippins (University of Georgia).- Chapter 1: Worm Spit: Integrating Curriculum through a Study of Silk and the Amazing Silk Worm, Michael L. Bentley (Virginia Museum of Natural History) and Teresa Auldridge (Full Option Science System).- Chapter 2: You Can Give a Bee Some Water, But You Can't Make Her Drink: A Socioscientific Approach to Honey Bees in Science Education, Jonathan Snow and Maria S. Rivera Maulucci (Barnard College).- Chapter 3: Engineering a Solution for Fish Waste Management, Alexandra E. West (University of Alaska Anchorage).- Chapter 4: Learning Science in Aquariums and on Whalewatching Boats-The Hidden Curriculum of the Deployment of Other Animals, Teresa Lloro-Bidart (California State Polytechnic University at Pomona) and Connie Russell (Lakehead University).- Chapter 5: Tracing the Anthrozoological Landscape of Central Iowa: Place and Pedagogical Possibilities, Cori Jakubiak (Grinnell College).- Chapter 6: Life After the Fact(ory)-Pedagogy of Care at An Animal Sanctuary, Christopher Bentley and Steve Alsop (York University).- Chapter 7: Ethical-Ecological Holism in Science Pedagogy-In Honor of Sea Urchins, Lee Beavington, Heesoon Bai, (Simon Fraser University)