Promotion of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviour in Children Through Humane Education

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Teachers' experiences with humane education and animals in the elementary classroom: implications for empathy development (2010, background): “Thompson and Gullone (2003) highlighted the need for humane education programs as a means of intervention to counter ‘the cycle of abuse’, halting the potential of a child to abuse animals and alternatively fostering prosocial behaviour toward humans.”
An investigation of human-animal interactions and empathy as related to pet preference, ownership, attachment, and attitudes in children (2006, background): “Further, while the question of whether animal- and humanoriented empathy are related does remain complex (Paul 2000), empirical evidence increasingly suggests that there is a connection (Ascione 1992; Ascione and Weber 1996; Hergovich et al. 2002; Thompson and Gullone 2003).”