Global Curriculum Analysis
How do schools around the world organize core concepts in the curriculum related to human evolution, behavior, and sustainability?
Our interdisciplinary, open science, and long-form approach to this question provides school improvement and educational research groups with tools for rigorous and participatory methods for the cross-cultural comparative study of school curricula.
Our analysis is focused on a growing but selective list of core concepts that span human evolutionary, behavioral, and sustainability sciences.
Our current list of core concepts for curriculum analysis includes:
adaptation, agent, behavior, cognition, cooperation, culture, design, development, evolution, goal, information, intelligence, learning, system, sustainability, and theory.
Our analysis is focused on a minimal set of key questions for the cross-cultural comparison of school curriculum documents. We welcome collaborators to join us in these broad questions, with many opportunities for regional or international extensions.
- Across which subject areas and age/grade levels are core concepts found?
- How are core concepts contextualized across various instances in the curriculum?
- Which core concepts co-occur, across which contexts?
We are working to support the leading edge of open science and community-based methods to maximize the rigor and public value of the research.
- MaxQDA Database of National, Regional (e.g. State), and Branded (e.g. IB or Montessori School) curriculum documents
- Open methods for collaboration across educational research groups
- Open-access project files on OSF
(readable with free MaxQDA Reader) - Supports for early career researchers
- Pathways for student and teacher collaborations through our Community Science Lab
