Future Thinking
Human Evolution Resources Mental Time Travel As we look more closely at our perception and thinking, we may find that we are quite often “somewhere else”. We may be physically sitting in the room, walking down the street, or lying in bed, but in our minds we are wandering around in time and space: we […]
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Materials for creating a causal map on the relationships between human behaviors, technologies, institutions, social and natural environments
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A collection of materials for connecting past human evolution to the present and the future. Students explore global trends and relationships between human behavior, technologies, social organization, environment, and well-being.
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Stories of lost explorers that tell us about the importance of cultural knowledge to our survival.
Behavioral science is increasingly considered foundational for addressing various sustainable development challenges. Behavioral change and action competence have also become important goals in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), complementing and interacting with other educational goals such as the development of sustainability-relevant knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. We argue that these interconnected learning goals of ESD can be advanced by integrating interdisciplinary behavioral science concepts, methods, and insights into the design of curricula, learning environments, and processes for participatory whole-school approaches. Specifically, we highlight the role of metacognitive competency in self-directed individual and collective behavior change and we present our educational design concept for teaching human behavior as an interdisciplinary theme in ESD.
A lesson collection for the Human Behavior & Sustainable Development module.
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Curriculum Overload is a complex phenomena in which schools face challenges in creating adaptive learning environments for students.
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Develop University-Assisted Community Schools as an outgrowth of Educational Innovation Labs
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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.
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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