Module: Human behavior and sustainable development [INSTRUCTOR-LED], Kachel: Week 4

Week 4 - Sustainability and Cooperation
- In this week, we will explore the theme of cooperation and its importance in sustainability.
  Concepts: Social Dilemma, Cooperation, Conflict, Fairness, Autonomy
  Competencies: cooperation competency, evaluation competency
  Conceptual questions:
  Are humans a cooperative species?
  What is the role of cooperation in sustainable development?
  What conditions and behaviors allow humans to overcome social dilemmas and cooperate towards shared goals?
- Week 4 Video Presentation: Are humans a cooperative species?
- Week 4 Video Presentation: Social Dilemmas and the Tragedy of the Commons
- Week 4 Video Presentation: How to solve social dilemmas?
- Textseite
  
  Week 4 Presentation: Sustainability and Cooperation Textseite
- H5P
  
  Core Design Principles 1-3 mechanisms and symptoms sorting Interaktiver Inhalt
  
  In this activity, students sort a range of different examples from across contexts (country, school, organization or company) into examples of good or poor implementation of the design principles for cooperation. This activity covers Design Principles 1-3. This activity has a few less sorting options than the previous one, focusing on examples from school and national government.
- H5P
  
  Core Design Principles 4-6 mechanisms and symptoms sorting Interaktiver Inhalt
  
  In this activity, students sort a range of different examples from across contexts (country, school, organization or company) into examples of good or poor implementation of the design principles for cooperation. This activity covers Design Principles 4-6. This activity has a few less sorting options than the previous one, focusing on examples from school and national government.
- Link/URL
  
  Core Design Principles Handout Link/URL
- Assignments
- Aufgabe
  
  Week 4 Project Group Assignment Aufgabe
  
  See the Week 4 Assignment in the Portfolio document for instructions. Submit a link to your group portfolio document or a word doc or pdf file.
  Note: Only one member of your group needs to submit the assignment!
- Test
  
  Quiz: Sustainability and Cooperation Test
- Further Information and Resources
  Teacher Guide p. 2-4; 66-68
- Textseite
  
  Sustainability and Cooperation: Readings and Resources Textseite
- Video: Michael Tomasello - What makes us human?
  
  Michael Tomasello was the director of the former Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Video: Yuval Harari Ted Talk - What explains the rise of humans
- Video: Talk with Sam Bowles - The death of "Homo economicus"
  
  Sam Bowles is an American economist who studied the role of human prosocial motivations in economics and in society. In this video, Sam Bowles talks about the “death of ‘Homo Economicus’ - the outdated and misguided economic model of human behavior, and what our new understanding of humans means for society and economics.
- Video: Nick Hanauer Ted Talk about bringing insights about human behavior into "new" capitalism
  
  In this talk, the entrepreneur Nick Hanauer talks about what our understanding about humans means for capitalism.

Week 4 - Sustainability and Cooperation

Assignments

Further Information and Resources