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Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology
Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the diversity and commonalities in human moral reasoning can be seen as a prequisite for engaging in public discourse on highly contentious and complex social or ecological issues. Schools can work to ensure an iterative, scaffolded, interdisciplinary curriculum that support adaptive understandings of diverse perspectives in moral psychology.
Creating curriculum scale change is difficult and takes time. Start small with lower-level more target project aims:
- Type Improvement theme, Systems-scale leverage
- Tiers of intervention High administrative buy-in
- School Improvement Goals Conceptual coherence, Conceptual understanding, Inclusive school improvement, School collective efficacy
- Relevant concepts Cognitive Biases, Common Pool Resource, Cooperation, Cultural evolution, Culture, Democracy, Emotions, Empathy, Ethnocentrism, Fairness, Function of behavior, Future thinking/mental time travel, Human Behavior, Identity, Individual differences, Intellectual humility, Intelligences, Language, Moral cognition, Perspective taking, Philosophy of Mind, Social dilemma, Social norms, Sustainability, Sustainable resource use, Systems thinking
- Learning goals Conceptual Thinking, Cooperation Competency, Critical Thinking, Evaluation Competency, Evolutionary Thinking, Future Thinking, Interdisciplinary Thinking, Metacognitive Competency, Nature of Science, Self-Regulation Competency
- Relevant projects Diverse Intelligences, Global ESD, Prosocial Schools, Prosocial Youth
