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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (43698)11/21/2007 11:25:10 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 540921
 
I wonder if we might not question also WHY they have problems with sequential learning. If you look at rodents (for example) early enrichment changes their brain pathways. I know testing on various ethnic groups runs in to PC hysteria (and for good reason, given some of the bizarro ways whites have "studied" other races and the conclusions they've come to), but I do think that we could study "poor" children (as opposed to studying by race), and find out if a talent for sequential learning is an early developed skill, rather like language- and like language, is there some structural formation fused in the brain in early childhood? (as the palate becomes formed for a given language.)

These studies have not been done with the rigor and breadth that we need to develop a realistic architecture for truly educating all children to their full potential. African American children who are adopted in to white middle class homes often perform as if they were white middle class children, so this makes me wonder if the synaptic pathways formed in the presence of affluence (or at least formed without neglect and deprivation) are completely different. There's also a tremendous impact from fetal alcohol syndrome on the reservations which at low levels tends to have effects like lead poisoning (affecting concentration and sequential learning).

Obviously we've got to teach them where they are, and not try to make them learn things they cannot learn, but if this is a nurture thing and we can change it, we probably should- since a majority of the "good" jobs in this country require a pretty high ability to do sequential learning, and we don't want to cheat these kids out of participating in those jobs if we don't absolutely have to.

And thank you for the compliment.
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