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Major alternatives texts available in 8 more languages

 

Major alternatives texts available in 8 more languages

 

Texts from the InterNICHE book ‘from Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse’

(2nd ed.) are launched on-line today in Arabic, French, German,

Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

 

The book is targeted at teachers and students of medicine, veterinary

medicine and biology, and at ethics committees and animal protection

groups.

 

Each translation begins with a highly detailed introduction to

different types of alternative to harmful animal use in education

such as multimedia software and virtual reality, training mannekins

and simulators, ethically-sourced animal cadavers, student self-

experimentation and clinical work with animal patients.

 

A number of translations include all chapters from Part A of the

book:

 

1. Types of alternative and their pedagogical impact

 

2. The broader impact of humane education

 

3. Assessment of alternatives in education (by Dr Jonathan Balcombe)

 

4. Curricular design: Choosing and planning a humane approach to life

science education (by Dr Lara Marie Rasmussen)

 

5. Conscientious objection: Roles and responsibilities for teachers

and students

 

6. InterNICHE: Philosophy and practice

 

Other translations include case studies of implementation from Part B

of the book, written by university heads of department and deans who

have fully replaced harmful animal use in education:

 

1. Virtual versus real laboratories in life science education:

Concepts and experiences (by Dr Hans A. Braun)

 

2. Implementation of computer-based alternatives in biomedical

education (by Dr Henk van Wilgenburg)

 

3. Teaching physiology is possible without killing (by Dr Mykola

Makarchuk)

 

4. Research project practicals for undergraduates in the biological

sciences: Learning problem-solving strategies without animal

experimentation (by Dr Garry C. Scroop)

 

5. Client donation program to meet the needs of veterinary medical

education: Alternatives to healthy animal sacrifice (by Dr Amarendhra

M. Kumar)

 

6. Ethical surgery training for veterinary students (by Dr Daniel D.

Smeak)

 

7. A pedagogically sound, innovative, and humane plan for veterinary

medical education (by Drs Lara Marie Rasmussen, R. Ashley Robinson,

Gary R. Johnston and Shirley D. Johnston)

 

The translation of the 520-page book has been made possible thanks to

generous support from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

to Animals (RSPCA), with additional support from the Swiss League

Against Vivisection (LSCV) and the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation.

Sponsors of the original English version can be found on the

InterNICHE website.

 

Some of these texts are already available on-line in Hindi and

Malayalam, thanks to support from the International Association

Against Painful Experiments on Animals (IAAPEA).

 

Other languages under production include Bengali, Gujarati, Japanese,

Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese (standard), Punjabi and Urdu.

 

For the texts launched today, InterNICHE acknowledges the excellent

work of the translators:

 

* Arabic version by Fawzy Elnady and Ahmed Rostom

 

* French version by Amelia Tarzi with Véronique Gonfreville-Landy and

Bruno Lecomte

 

* German version by Lydia Reumund

 

* Korean version by Sungshil Park

 

* Polish version by Wojtek Piwowarski

 

* Portuguese (Brazilian) version by Miriam Santini with Thales Tréz

 

* Russian version by Victoria Meshcheryakova with Valeriy Samokhvalov

and Boris Meshcheryakov

 

* Spanish version by Lillian Campbell and Maria Elena Vides Alfaro,

with Lizbeth Elena Muñoz López and Ana Sofía Ponce Partida

 

The new texts make available the first or most comprehensive

information resource on alternatives in education for many of the

above languages. Further texts in each language will be added over

time. CD and DVD versions of the book are also under production.

 

For more information, please contact Nick Jukes, InterNICHE Co-

ordinator at <coordinator or tel +44 116 210 9652.

 

(1) Nick Jukes & Mihnea Chiuia. from Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse:

Alternative methods for a progressive, humane education (2nd edition)

(InterNICHE, 2003). ISBN 1-904422-00-4. Foreword by Gill Langley,

PhD.

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS !!

 

 

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Nick Jukes

InterNICHE Co-ordinator

 

42 South Knighton Road

Leicester LE2 3LP

England

 

tel: +44 116 210 9652

e-mail: coordinator

web: www.interniche.org

 

 

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