Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education
There is a rapidly growing body of research in the field of evolutionary educational psychology that examines children’s evolved motivational and educational inclinations as they relate to modern learning and schooling. It is generally agreed that schools are inherently mismatched with how children...
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| author | Kathryne Gruskin Mariah Griffin Sonaskshi Bansal Stephanie Dickinson-Frevola Ashlee Dykeman Desiree Groce-Volinski Keydy Henriquez Maya Kardas Aileen McCarthy Aman Shetty Brandon Staccio Glenn Geher Ethan Eisenberg |
| author_facet | Kathryne Gruskin Mariah Griffin Sonaskshi Bansal Stephanie Dickinson-Frevola Ashlee Dykeman Desiree Groce-Volinski Keydy Henriquez Maya Kardas Aileen McCarthy Aman Shetty Brandon Staccio Glenn Geher Ethan Eisenberg |
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| description | There is a rapidly growing body of research in the field of evolutionary educational psychology that examines children’s evolved motivational and educational inclinations as they relate to modern learning and schooling. It is generally agreed that schools are inherently mismatched with how children of our species evolved to learn, thereby contributing to difficulty learning and associated adverse schooling outcomes. Many researchers argue that, by making small changes to schools that help to better align instructional methods and childhood as a whole with our species’ evolved learning mechanisms, we can lessen the negative impacts from evolutionary mismatch and create better outcomes for modern students. In order to create effective change, there must be collaborative work done by parents, teachers, and school administrators. This paper delineates the roles of these stakeholders in elementary education with respect to creating more evolutionarily relevant systems. A research-based toolkit is proposed to guide these stakeholders in evolutionizing the elementary education system. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-13c85e568ce24fa295308cc667db6f0c2025-01-24T13:22:53ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2025-01-011519210.3390/bs15010092Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary EducationKathryne Gruskin0Mariah Griffin1Sonaskshi Bansal2Stephanie Dickinson-Frevola3Ashlee Dykeman4Desiree Groce-Volinski5Keydy Henriquez6Maya Kardas7Aileen McCarthy8Aman Shetty9Brandon Staccio10Glenn Geher11Ethan Eisenberg12Department of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USADepartment of Psychology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USAThere is a rapidly growing body of research in the field of evolutionary educational psychology that examines children’s evolved motivational and educational inclinations as they relate to modern learning and schooling. It is generally agreed that schools are inherently mismatched with how children of our species evolved to learn, thereby contributing to difficulty learning and associated adverse schooling outcomes. Many researchers argue that, by making small changes to schools that help to better align instructional methods and childhood as a whole with our species’ evolved learning mechanisms, we can lessen the negative impacts from evolutionary mismatch and create better outcomes for modern students. In order to create effective change, there must be collaborative work done by parents, teachers, and school administrators. This paper delineates the roles of these stakeholders in elementary education with respect to creating more evolutionarily relevant systems. A research-based toolkit is proposed to guide these stakeholders in evolutionizing the elementary education system.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/1/92evolutioneducationpsychologyschool reformevolutionary mismatch |
| spellingShingle | Kathryne Gruskin Mariah Griffin Sonaskshi Bansal Stephanie Dickinson-Frevola Ashlee Dykeman Desiree Groce-Volinski Keydy Henriquez Maya Kardas Aileen McCarthy Aman Shetty Brandon Staccio Glenn Geher Ethan Eisenberg Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education Behavioral Sciences evolution education psychology school reform evolutionary mismatch |
| title | Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education |
| title_full | Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education |
| title_fullStr | Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education |
| title_short | Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education |
| title_sort | stakeholders roles in evolutionizing education an evolutionary based toolkit surrounding elementary education |
| topic | evolution education psychology school reform evolutionary mismatch |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/1/92 |
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