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 possibilities to strategically organize the scope or sequence of the curriculum for a give class, subject, grade level or grade band.
Exploring the origins, nature, and future of intelligences
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute Read More »
Darwin Tunes was a project in the 2010’s. DarwinTunes was developed as a digital test-bed for the evolution of music, the oldest and most widespread form of culture; and, thanks to your participation, they have shown that reasonably complex and pleasing music can evolve purely under selection by listeners.
Students often do not have access to interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on the origins, diversity, and flexibility of human moral reasoning
Develop a lower secondary school training program on deeper and more interdisciplinary perspectives in moral psychology
Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module
Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School Read More »
Develop a middle grades training program on foundations in moral psychology
Develop a middle grades training program on foundations in moral psychology Read More »
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.
Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology Read More »
The core self-study module for entering the Prosocial Youth ecosystem of ideas and resources.
Prosocial Youth Self-Study Read More »
School curricula are divided by subject areas rather than a focus on deeper interdisciplinary conceptual relationships
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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