Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get
Content Anchor: Child development
When people must share things, what does it mean to share fairly? Do all people around the world have the same idea of what
We present a teaching tool, used widely in other parts of science and science education, yet perhaps underutilized in human evolution education—the causal map—as
Evolutionary anthropologists commonly describe humans as a highly cooperative species, based on our evolved socio-cognitive capacities. However, students and the general public may not
These lesson materials introduce students to issues of fairness and various interpretations of it. Reflecting on results of a cross-cultural experiment with children, students
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But
Common-pool resource (CPR) dilemmas are pervasive challenges to overcome. We presented six-year-old children with an experimental CPR paradigm involving a renewable water resource, which