Tinbergen’s Questions
Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
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Teach for transfer of learning
Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
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Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get adopted, can all drive major life trajectories for how students think about their own learning and civic capacities and about the world they live in. This community science field guide provides supports for students around the world to investigate and strengthen the cooperation dynamics of their own school governance systems.
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Schools should help students develop a minimum metacognitive understanding of the concept of ethnotheories of everyday life, and the similarities and differences between everyday learning and scientific learning. This is especially critical in the domains of self, schooling, and society.
Scaffold and ensure adaptive Theories of Self, Schooling, and Society Read More »
Students can and should be involved in the science-informed processes of community-based cultural evolution within their own school. Because this can be a complex task, schools should have some form of Community Science Lab (CSL), a group of students that are supported in more systematic approaches to school improvement through educational design thinking.
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Ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school
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Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while others failed.
Three Mexican fisheries Read More »
A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.
Perception of eyes and prosocial behavior Read More »
In this lesson students learn about the concept of cognitive biases as well as a number of important cognitive biases that may affect our well-being and social interactions, identify their causes in evolutionary history, their functions, and reflect on how to cope with cognitive biases.
Function of cognitive biases Read More »
In this lesson students explore the causes and functions of, as well as ways to flexibly relate to our moral intuitions by engaging the analogy to our taste buds.
A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
Game theory: Ultimatum and Dictator game Read More »