Susan Hanisch is the co-founder of the non-profit sustainability education organization GlobalESD.org, and a guest scientist at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Susan Hanisch is the co-founder of the non-profit sustainability education organization GlobalESD.org, and a guest scientist at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Together with her husband, Dustin Eirdosh, Susan develops teacher training courses and educational resources to advance teaching and learning at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. By linking scientific perspectives on social change with students and classrooms seeking to make the world a better place, the aim of this work is to foster a more global discussion about where we are going in the light of where we all have come from.

Events with Susan Hanisch

Wednesday, April 12th at 1pm GMT // 9am ET

Curriculum Overload: Empowering Students as Community Scientists in the Search for Higher Concepts

Free 1.5 hour Seminar and Q&A

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April 27, 2020

Finding Purpose in Evolution Education

Helping students understand the evolution of our human sense of purpose should be the central purpose of evolution education.

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July 6, 2020

Evolution Education Without Borders: A Collection of Essays on Teaching Evolution as an Interdisciplinary Science

Empowering students with the tools for understanding evolutionary processes will help them take on leadership roles in evolving the future of education itself.

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July 13, 2020

It’s Time to Fix Evolution’s Public Relations Problem

Evolution denial is rooted in deeply held misconceptions and current practices in evolution education are not adequate to address the problem.

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August 13, 2020

Evolving Minds: Learning as Evolution, Evolution as Learning

The exploration of learning as an evolutionary process and evolution as a learning process holds untapped educational potential.

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August 20, 2020

Education is an Evolutionary Science. Why Don’t We Teach It That Way?

There is an inspiring new direction in which the evolutionary science of education can be engaged as a platform for the empowerment of youth and whole school communities.

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April 26, 2020

Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

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