Dr Annie Potts

Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies - University of Canterbury

“The latest in SAFE’s comprehensive Animals & Us series for high school students focuses on key ethical debates regarding the use of nonhuman animals in scientific experiments. Animals in Science provides a vital resource for science and biology teachers who value and encourage independent scholarship and critical thinking in their students. Incorporating highly engaging, rigorously researched articles from leading biologists and ethologists, this beautifully designed learning resource prompts students to reconsider assumptions about other species and the place of animal experimentation in science. Animals in Science is unique in its inclusion of suggestions for non-invasive assessment projects that will motivate and inspire students to study science. These projects clearly demonstrate the validity and merit of alternatives to dissection and animal experimentation in the classroom. They also show how much fun science can be when it focuses on observing behaviours and sharing the experiences of other beings. I wholeheartedly recommend this exemplary resource to science teachers. I just wish it had been part of my own experience of science at school.”

Susan Yardley

Head of Science and teacher of Biology - Catholic Cathedral College

“ 'Animals in Science: Ethical Arguments and Alternatives to Animal Experiments' is a must have resource for all teachers of Science and especially for Biology teachers. With the implementation of the new Level 1 – 3 NCEA standards, where teachers are in dire need of relevant resources to plan new units of work, this book provides a wealth of ideas, sources of information and ready to use lesson plans. I am already planning on how to use it with my Senior Biology students.”

Marc Bekoff

Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado

“As long as our society continues to keep others species confined for human entertainment, we need to understand better the effects on animals of depriving them of the company of their own kind, of crowding them in confined spaces and of removing them from the rich interactions of their natural environment. We need to ask what animals experience when we replace the challenges and excitement of their daily lives in the wild with the stifling, human-designed routines of day after day in a cage or tank. We also need to think about what we’re doing when we take our kids to seen animals confined in enclosures, or performing on stages, and tell them that this is what an elephant is like, this is how a lion behaves, this is how we preserve and respect nature. I'm delighted to recommend this resource is an excellent introduction to the wealth of new material that addresses these questions.”

Heather Bryant

Assistant HOD English - Whangarei Girls’ High School

“Thank you for the set of Issue 3 Animals on Show which I have just received on behalf of the English Department at our school.It is an excellent resource and will be ideal for a top Year 10 class that I teach.It fits ideally into an extension programme where we can look at current issues and attitudes. It will also be useful for reading transactional texts at Level 2 English and for Social Studies units. This is an excellent publication – well set out and relevant and well-researched resources. Brilliant.”

Professor Philip Armstrong

Postgraduate Co-ordinator (English) University of Canterbury

“Animals & Us offers students and teachers options for engaging with the curriculum by attending to issues that will seem most urgent and vital to young people now; questions of power, violence and justice; the quandaries of consumerism and globalisation; the challenges of animal rights and welfare, and of environmentalism; the impact of technological and scientific manipulation of organic nature. In these ways, the resource helps prepare students for life after secondary school – whether they are planning further study at tertiary level (where these issues are increasingly to the fore in a range of disciplines), joining the workforce, beginning a family, travelling or pursuing any other direction as mature, informed, thoughtful and compassionate members of New Zealand society.”