Interdisciplinary Thinking
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.
Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module
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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.
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A collection of protocols for understanding the everyday ethnotheories of school origins across human development and cultures.
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A small study was conducted at a New England high school and consisted of two research components: (1) a cross-sectional survey of students’ views about what “healthy eating” means and (2) an intervention experiment designed to isolate exposure to knowledge of evolutionary biology. Data were collected through the use of questionnaires and analyzed according to qualitative methods.
Payoff matrices can help us analyze the behavioral strategies and possible outcomes in diverse situations across biology and society.
Analogy mapping is a tool for thinking about similarities and differences between different concepts or phenomena.
Dustin Eirdosh is a researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, in Leipzig, Germany and is the co-founder of the international educational development non-profit Global ESD. In his enlightening talk, he brings us his vision for the future of education. He wants to show how human behaviour can be seen through the lens of biology, history, math, economics, civics, geography, art, literature, and more, and therefore acts as a central concept to connect these traditionally disconnected school subjects.
https://www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cu…
http://www.GlobalESD.org Mr. Eirdosh is an education researcher at the Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and founder of the international non-profit organization, Global ESD, working on educational development efforts at the intersection of human evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
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