Community Science

Eirdosh, Dustin (2022): Teaching evolution as an interdisciplinary science: concepts, theory, and network infrastructure for educational design research. Jena. Online unter: https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00051708

Evolution is an interdisciplinary science. Evolutionary theory is routinely employed across the overlapping domains of the natural, social, and computational sciences, as a high level generalization of processes of change within complex adaptive systems. Despite this interdisciplinary character of evolutionary science, evolution education remains almost exclusively the purview of the biology classroom within general education curricula around the world. This thesis engages conceptual clarification and educational design research to map and explore the educational potential of teaching evolution as the interdisciplinary science that it is.

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Develop University-Assisted Community Schools

Dustin Eirdosh

Develop University-Assisted Community Schools as an outgrowth of Educational Innovation Labs

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Ethnotheories of School Origins Protocols

Dustin Eirdosh

A collection of protocols for understanding the everyday ethnotheories of school origins across human development and cultures.

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School curricula are divided by subject areas rather than focusing on deeper interdisciplinary conceptual relationships

Dustin Eirdosh

School curricula are divided by subject areas rather than a focus on deeper interdisciplinary conceptual relationships

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Focus Groups

Dustin Eirdosh

Focus groups are discussions with a group of people about a topic, led by a facilitator. Focus groups are well suited for the collection of qualitative information from people about their thoughts and experiences. In contrast to interviews, the questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members.

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Interviews

Dustin Eirdosh

Interviews are usually between two people – an interviewer and an interviewee. Interviews are well suited for the collection of qualitative information from people about their thoughts and experiences. Interviews allow a researcher to ask follow up questions to understand the meaning of what people are saying.

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Develop a DEAL City or School Community Portrait

Dustin Eirdosh

Use the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) resources to develop an analysis of your city and/or school community in relation to social and ecological sustainability.

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Use conversation starters to launch and sustain school improvement processes

Dustin Eirdosh

How do you start a conversation about improving your school? Our collection of conversation starters is a good place to start.

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Questionnaires and Surveys

Dustin Eirdosh

Questionnaires are a method for gathering written information from people on a variety of questions. Questionnaires can contain qualitative and quantitative questions, open-ended or closed questions.

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Rapid Assessment

Dustin Eirdosh

Rapid Assessment is a methodology for conducting rapid, reliable, and valuable assessments of school or community culture.

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