Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor Resources on the DNA-V model Psychologists Louise Hayes and Joseph Ciarocchi have developed the DNA-V model. It contains the metaphors of
Grade or Expertise Level: K-12
DNA-V is an evidence-based model that promotes psychological strength, and that values consistent living, vitality, and success. It is designed to help people cope
What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Cooperation games help us to investigate the causes, variations, and consequences
Use culturally competent teaching practices especially (but not only) when engaging students with diverse or potentially conflicting beliefs with scientific perspectives.
Focus on interdisciplinary pluralism in curricula design
Clarifying values and sense of purpose can be a strategy for improving school culture, academic, and social-emotional learning.
Using an analogy of epi-genetic expression in relation to the cultural genome of the school curriculum, educators and school stakeholders (including students) may explore
Students often do not have access to interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on the origins, diversity, and flexibility of human moral reasoning
Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the
Analogy mapping is a tool for thinking about similarities and differences between different concepts or phenomena.
