Future 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 »
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.
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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