This review and commentary on psychologist Edward Wasserman’s As if By Design provides a brief overview of the core argument from Wasserman, and discusses the implications for evolution science educators and students.
Evolutionary concepts are used, with varying and arguable degrees of scientific utility, across a wide range of disciplines. This contribution explores how understanding the structures of knowledge, or the organization of facts and generalizations in science, cognition, and education, may help illuminate the educational potential and evidence-informed pedagogical practices appropriate for teaching about the interdisciplinary application of evolutionary concepts.
Curriculum Overload is a complex phenomena in which schools face challenges in creating adaptive learning environments for students.
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In this lesson students explore the concept of (human) behavior, its causes, and its relation to well-being and sustainable development.
This model adds cultural evolutionary dynamics through behavior imitation to the evolution of resource use behavior.
NetLogo: Evolution of resource use through behavior imitation Read More »
A general framework is used to identify 10 subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of self-organization in efforts to achieve a sustainable social-ecological system.
This model lets us explore how the appearance of certain social behaviors can affect evolutionary population dynamics.
NetLogo: Evolution of resource use and social behavior (monitoring and punishment) 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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