Teaching Material Allowing Students to Realize the Dignity of Life—Dissection and Cooking of a Hen—

Abstract

A practical lesson, “students discussing the dignity of life, after killing and eating hens”, was prepared as one of the lessons in a teacher training course in my university. One of the educational purposes in this lesson was to allow the students to recognize by themselves the fact that human beings live by killing numerous kinds of animals, and at the same time by making them do the above-mentioned practical work to allow them to realize the dignity of life of every living thing by themselves. From the contents of students’ reports on this practical lesson, it was assumed that the present lesson was useful for allowing them to recognize the dignity of life.