Community Science Competency
Interviews are usually between two people – an interviewer and an interviewee. Interviews are well suited for the collection of qualitative information from people about their thoughts and experiences. Interviews allow a researcher to ask follow up questions to understand the meaning of what people are saying.
How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior, and the causal interactions in social-ecological systems to address local, regional and global sustainability issues? How can we use these understandings to solve real world problems?
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Read More »
What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and beliefs helps us to engage them more flexibly, change perspective, and learn from each other to achieve shared goals.
How do you start a conversation about improving your school? Our collection of conversation starters is a good place to start.
Use conversation starters to launch and sustain school improvement processes Read More »
Questionnaires are a method for gathering written information from people on a variety of questions. Questionnaires can contain qualitative and quantitative questions, open-ended or closed questions.
Questionnaires and Surveys Read More »
Rapid Assessment is a methodology for conducting rapid, reliable, and valuable assessments of school or community culture.
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.
Community Science Field Guide to School Culture Read More »
PhotoVoice is a participatory research method. Community members are asked to take photographs of places or situations regarding a particular question.
A questionnaire or interview protocol to capture conceptions about the Self-Directed Education model of school design
A School Fit for Humans? Read More »
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 »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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