Please DO NOT COPY from any website, it has to be unique. Discussion 4: Nature v
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Please DO NOT COPY from any website, it has to be unique.
Discussion 4: Nature vs. Nurture
we take a look at the role of heredity vs. environment in determining who/what we are.
How do you weigh in on this important question and WHY?
Several semesters ago I was in a thrift store looking at books when this one practically jumped off the shelf at me. As I was starting to read The Courage to Teach the section on P. 13, especially the paragraph I drew a line next to where you can hardly read the "N.B." = Latin abbreviation for "note well", but I thought it was such a concise, well-said commentary on the nature-nurture question that I'm going to throw it in "here" this semester.
Just something to get you thinking....:-)
method and the standards prescribed by it. That pain is felt through- out education today as we glorify the method du jour leaving people who teach differently feeling devalued, forcing them to measure up to norms not their own. I will never forget one professor who, moments before I was to start a workshop on teaching, unloaded years of pent-up workshop animus on me: "I am an organic chemist. Are you going to spend the next two days telling me that I am supposed to teach organic chem- istry through role playing?" We must find an approach to teaching that respects the diversity of teachers and subjects, which method ological reductionism fails to do. The good news is very good, but the bad news is daunting. If identity and integrity are more fundamental to good teaching than technique-and if we want to grow as teachers-we must do some- thing alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives-risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract. I was reminded of that fear recently as I listened to a group of faculty argue about what to do when students share personal expe- riences in class-experiences that are related to the themes of the course but that some professors regard as "more suited to a thera session than to a college classroom." The house soon divided along predictable lines. On one side were the scholars, insisting that the subject is primary and must never be compromised for the sake of the students' lives. On the other side were the student-centered folks, insisting that the lives of students must always come first even if it means that the subject gets short- changed. The more vigorously these camps promoted their polarized ideas, the more antagonistic they became-and the less they learned about pedagogy or about themselv es. The gap between these views seems unbridgeable-until we understand what creates it. At bottom, these professors were not de- bating teaching techniques. They were revealing the diversity of identity and integrity among themselves, saying, in various ways, Here are my own limits and potentials when it comes to dealing with the relation between the subject and my students' lives." If we stopped lobbing pedagogical points at each other and spoke about who we are as teachers, a remarkable thing might hap- 12 THE COURAGE TO TEACHExplanation / Answer
Nature is the genetic makeup structure which determine our traits and our dominant physical features such as height, hair color, eye color. Nurture is the way our environment shapes us. Research has shown that monozygotic twins rared apart shared similar personality and intelligence than fraternal twins, which mean that genes can determine our personality and intelligence to certainly extent. Adoption Studies have shown environment to play a role in shaping personality and intelligence in the early years of ones life.
Recent research places great emphasis on the interaction between nature and nature and does not pinpoint one specific influence which may determine our personalities.Both nature and nurture have an influence on our behavior, and interact with each other..There are so many factors which influence are behaviors that it is difficult to identify and isolate a few. The behavior of an individual can be seen as outcome of very complex interaction of the genetic and environmental forces.