Abstract

Part of the findings of the research: Sense of Respect for Life: Between the Silent-Other and the School developed within the framework of the Master’s Degree in Education at the University of Cauca, Colombia, is presented. We understand the way in which the human being has situated himself as a ''superior being'' in his relation with animals, called by San Martín (2016) the Silent Others. The objective was to understand the sense of respect for life by the Silent-Other, that students and teachers in the area of Natural Sciences in the eighth grade, of the Gabriela Mistral School in the city of Popayán give. The phenomenological method was followed from the proposal of Reflective Analysis by Lester Embree (2003), the design allowed to reach the 3 phenomenological reductions: natural, eidetic and transcendental. It was found that there exists an anthropocentric perspective of the Silent-Others that assumes them as a being with human feelings and on which a selfhood of the human is projected.

Keywords: Animals; environmental education; Natural Sciences; schooling