The Nature and Nurture of Education: DC Socky Faminialagao (Ref:professor

The nature and
nurture of
education
Dc Socky Faminialagao (ref:Professor

Michael Thomas0
Gaps in educational achievement
between children are a key issue for
society, and their causes have been a
focus for research in the social
sciences. These gaps have spurred
educational neuroscience
investigations into possible
underlying brain mechanisms, with
separate work in the areas of
environmental influences and
genetic mechanisms.
The nature-nurture issue is well-
known amongst teachers: children
differ, and some of these differences
are due to the children’s nature, some
due to the environment they are raised
in, and some a combination of
children’s different natural reactions to
the environments they are raised in.
Effects of Social Economic Status (SES) as a measure
of environmental proxy of the actual experiences
These mechanisms These pathways include

may operate along prenatal factors, such as
multiple pathways, maternal diet, smoking,
alcohol consumption, and
and those pathways stress; postnatal nurturing
may differ depending factors, such as early
both on the absolute caregiver sensitivity; and
level of poverty the richness of postnatal
across countries and cognitive stimulation
the level of (Hackman, Farah &
Meaney, 2010; Sheridan &
inequality McLaughlin, 2016)
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Effects of Social Economic Status (SES) as a measure
of environmental proxy of the actual experiences
Notably, the effects of NATURE

SES are uneven across Heritability is defined as
cognitive profiles, the amount of variation
with relatively greater in behaviour explained
effects on language by genetic similarity.
development and Heritability is either
executive functions, inferred on the basis that
and weaker on visuo- achievement is more
spatial cognition similar the more
(Farah et al., 2006), genetically similar
although the reasons individuals
for this unevenness are
unknown.
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NATURE INFLUENCE ON INTELLIGENCE
• within the last five years, papers have been published showing that
the heritability of educational achievement aged 16 is up to 60%,
and that controlling for IQ, it appears to be the same genes that
explain variability in different academic disciplines (Krapohl et al.,
2014; Rimfeld et al., 2015); that social mobility (measured as
children achieving higher educational levels than their parents) is
itself around 50% heritable (Ayorech et al., 2017); that, on genetic
grounds, there is little evidence that selective schools produce
better educational outcomes than non-selective schools (Smith-
Woolley et al., 2018); and that educational achievement may be a
causal protective factor against Alzheimer’s disease (Zhu et al.,
2018).
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INHERITED CAPACITY ANS SCHOOL SPECIFICALLY TEACHERS
We can simply note that a genetic perspective on education

emphasises that not all differences between children are
environmental in origin; but as yet, does not point to
specific implications for teaching. Somewhat counter-
intuitively, environments that optimise learning will
increase the extent to which educational success is
heritable. For example, greater heritability is observed
in classes with better teachers (Taylor et al., 2010), as it
is in affluent families compared to impoverished ones
(Turkheimer et al., 2003).
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INHERITED CAPACITY ANS SCHOOL SPECIFICALLY TEACHERS
This is because heritability acts as an indicator of where

limiting factors lie: when better school environments
reduce limits on learning, variability between children is
more readily explained by their genetic make-up (Asbury,
2015; Thomas, Kovas, Meaburn & Tolmie, 2015).
Increasing heritability rates could therefore be a useful
indicator of reducing educational inequality.
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RISKS OF POVERTY ON EDUCATION ( Interaction with SES)
The risk with both neuroscience evidence of the effects of

poverty on brain development, and of genetic effects on
educational achievement, is that these will be construed by
educators as ‘deterministic’ or inevitable outcomes. Yet
many cognitive effects of poverty can be ameliorated by
intervention, such as training executive functions, because
the brain is plastic (Neville et al., 2013); and previously
measured genetic effects may disappear when
environments are altered. Indeed, the future potential of
genetics would be to predict the best, tailored environment
for each child to reach his or her genetic potential.
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Nature vs Nurture
TRAIT inherited are BIRTH RIGHTS
and SCHOOL provides the discipline to
enable everyone to claim every
opportunity to be entitled .
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EVERYONE CAN BE AT THEIR BEST IF
THEY MAKE THE DECISION TO BE
ONE
ALLOW THE ENVIRONMENT TO SHAPE YOUR
BIRTH RIGHT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAYS. NEVER
DEPRIVE YOURSELF OF WHAT THE ENVIRONEMENT
OFFERS.
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EMBRACE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO
BECOME THE BEST. YOU DESERVE IT.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
BE PART OF YOUR JOURNEY IN
APPRECIATING YOUR GIFTS.
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This is because heritability acts as an indicator of where

The risk with both neuroscience evidence of the effects of

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