Dustin Eirdosh
Education innovation coordinator
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 410
email: dustin_eirdosh@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
I am interested in educational design research related to teaching and learning at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. Working through collaborations across scientific institutions, international non-profits, and local classrooms, our projects use human social behavior as a conceptual lens for interdisciplinary education.
Interdisciplinary education
- Evolution education
- Psychological / Social-Emotional Learning
- Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligences
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Teaching for transfer of learning and conceptual understanding
- How can students develop deeper understandings of (arguably) generalizable concepts relevant to evolution, behavior, and sustainability sciences?
(e.g. adaptation, agency, behavior, cognition, cooperation, culture, design, development, evolution, goal, information, intelligence, learning, system, sustainability, theory)
Community science for understanding and improving school cultures
- How can students become empowered as researchers and co-designers of meaningful school improvements through conceptual learning and participatory open science methods?
Teacher education and development
- How can pre-service and in-service teachers become empowered as researchers and co-designers within the frame of our Educational Design Concept?
My primary focus is the development of OpenEvo as an interdisciplinary platform for teaching, learning, and educational design research at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and sustainability science.
Our foundations in biology education provide a base for interdisciplinary explorations and understandings of human behavior, cognition, and culture. Research cooperation with the AG Biologiedidaktik (Biology education working group) in Jena provides a dynamic space for innovation development and testing of our educational design concept.
Projects and Partners
I am the coordinator of the educational development, outreach, and research coordination efforts of our department.
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www.GlobalESD.org
Together with Dr. Susan Hanisch, I am a co-founder of the US-based non-profit organization, Global ESD (Education for Sustainable Development). Global ESD works internationally to support sustainability education initiatives that connect concepts in human evolution, behavioral ecology, and sustainability science. By linking scientific perspectives on social change with students and classrooms seeking to make the world a better place, our aim is to foster a more global discussion about where we are going in the light of where we all have come from.
www.EvoLeipzig.de (in German)
EvoLeipzig is a place-based initiative working to bring the Global ESD design concept to schools and education partners in Leipzig.
Publications
Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2023). Behavioral science and education for sustainable development: towards metacognitive competency. Sustainability, 15(9): 7413. |
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Hanisch, S., Eirdosh, D., & Morgan, T. (2023). Evolving cooperation and sustainability for common pool resources. In X. Sá-Pinto, A. Beniermann, T. Børsen, M. Georgiou, A. Jeffries, P. Pessoa, B. Sousa, & D. L. Zeidler ( |
Open AccessBachmann, M. E., Kulik, L., Gatiso, T., Nielsen, M. R., Haase, D., Heurich, M., Buchadas, A., Bösch, L., Eirdosh, D., Freytag, A., Geldmann, J., Ghoddousi, A., Hicks, T. C., Ordaz-Németh, I., Qin, S., Sop, T., van Beeck Calkoen, S., Wesche, K., & Kühl, H. S. (2022). Analysis of differences and commonalities in wildlife hunting across the Africa-Europe South-North gradient. PLoS Biology, 20: e3001707. |
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Gatiso, T. T., Kulik, L., Bachmann, M. E., Bonn, A., Bösch, L., Eirdosh, D., Freytag, A., Hanisch, S., Heurich, M., Sop, T., Wesche, K., Winter, M., & Kühl, H. S. (2022). Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context. Nature Sustainability, 5, 861-868. |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2022). Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks. Journal of Biological Education, 1-25. |
Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2021). Are humans a cooperative species? Challenges & opportunities for teaching the evolution of human prosociality. The American Biology Teacher, 83(6), 356-361. |
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Hanisch, S., Eirdosh, D., Schaefer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). What is “fair” is not the same everywhere. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9: 580435. |
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Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2021). Evolving Schools in a Post-pandemic Context. In W. Leal Filho ( |
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Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2021). Opportunities and challenges in qualitative data synthesis for school culture research. Talk presented at Workshop "Human Research Data in Practice". Munich. 2021-04-20 - 2021-04-20. |
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Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2021). The music and social bonding hypothesis does require multilevel selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44: e69. |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2021). Causal mapping as a teaching tool for reflecting on causation in human evolution. Science & Education, 30, 993-1022. |
Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2020). Can the science of Prosocial be a part of evolution education? Evolution: Education and Outreach, 13: 5. |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2020). Conceptual clarification of evolution as an interdisciplinary science. edarxiv. |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2020). A teacher's guide to evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. 2nd Edition. GlobalESD. |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2020). Educational potential of teaching evolution as an interdisciplinary science. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 13(25). |
Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2019). The role of evolutionary studies in education for sustainable development. In D. Sloan Wilson, G. Geher, H. Mativetsky, & A. C. Gallup ( |
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Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2019). A teacher's guide to evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. GlobalESD. |
Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2017). Cultural Evolution in the Biology Classroom: A Design-Based Research Model in Education for Sustainable Development. Poster presented at Inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference, Jena. |
