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Nadler, Mark – OCSS Review, 1997
Opines that there are three benefits to incorporating biology and other natural sciences into social studies programs: (1) students are exposed to interdisciplinary thinking; (2) social studies materials are placed on a more secure scientific basis; and (3) a biologized social studies program reveals human nature uncontaminated by recent culture.…
Descriptors: Biology, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution
Shaker, Paul – 1982
This paper argues that the emerging discipline of sociobiology has the potential of doing what epistemologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and ethologists have been unable to do: to provide a theory documenting our inherited dispositions as reflected in cultural evolution and personal development. Accordingly, the paper begins…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology
Beavis, Allan K. – 1995
Educational administration, like many other social sciences, has traditionally followed the rubrics of classical science with its emphasis on prediction and control and attempts to understand the whole by understanding in ever finer detail how the parts fit together. However, the "new" science (especially quantum mechanics, complexity,…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution