Evolutionary Thinking
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 »
Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones).
Levin, M., & Dennett, D. C. (2020). Cognition all the way down. Aeon Essays. Read More »
Our interdisciplinary teacher’s guide outlines our educational design concept. It provides introductory readings around core concepts of human sciences and ideas for exploring them in the classroom.
A Teacher’s Guide to Evolution, Behavior, and Sustainability Science Read More »
Although much research exists of students’ alternative conceptions about evolution and natural selection, the way in which these vary in time and how scientific explanations change during instruction remains to be described and understood. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to characterise the nature of the change in student thinking about evolution through the mechanism of natural selection during a six-lesson intervention with a group of ninth-grade students (14–15 years old) from a private subsidised school in Chile.
A collection of protocols for understanding the everyday ethnotheories of school origins across human development and cultures.
Ethnotheories of School Origins Protocols 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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