Raising pets at home and the ethical scientific effects on children's behavior | ||||
| Sohag University International Journal of Educational Research | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 3, Issue 3, January 2021, Page 77-92 PDF (1.08 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/suijer.2021.122464 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Fatma El Zhraa Salem Mahmoud* | ||||
| Faculty of Education, Ain-Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The current study concerned with knowing the effect of raising pets at home on the ethical and scientific behavior of children. The study used the ethnographic approach to coexist with some pets and check their behaviors. The study also dealt with the educational approaches that were deduced from coexistence with pets. The study concluded that pets have a great effect on human beings. Also, pets contribute to foster the human, moral, and scientific side of adults and children. The study revealed that, children, adolescents, and the elderly are the most related to pets. The study indicated that pets are a substitute for the loss of a human need, such as the loss of parents, or suffering from psychological diseases such as autism, or a loss of interest and care or the need to fill the void and the elimination of emotional or physical loneliness. The study showed that pets can adapt. The study concluded that pets have emotional and social intelligence. The study showed that in times of crisis and adversity, such as forced migration or extreme poverty, many people can do without pets. The study showed the strong effects of pets on educating children’s behavior and learning many moral, practical, and scientific values. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Pet raising - Ethics - Science - Impact; Children | ||||
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