Impacting Readiness: Nature and Nurture

Autor/in	Healy, Jane M.
Titel	Impacting Readiness: Nature and Nurture
Quelle	In: Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, (2011) 198, S.18-21 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0164-8527
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Neuropsychology; Nature Nurture Controversy; Developmental Psychology; Child Psychology; Learning Readiness; School Readiness; Biological Influences; Environmental Influences; Developmental Stages; Cognitive Development; Brain; Early Childhood Education; Genetics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Neuropsychologie; Umweltdebatte; Entwicklungspsychologie; Kinderpsychologie; Lernbereitschaft; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Biologischer Faktor; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Kognitive Entwicklung; Gehirn; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Humangenetik
Abstract	Whereas some four year olds could draw a person with five fingers on each hand and a full set of facial features, others could barely hold a pencil. Some sat quietly in a small group, intently listening to and understanding a story, while others wiggled, fidgeted, and couldn't focus their attention. In those days, before the explosion of developmental neuroscience, the author's professors explained individual differences in readiness with the term "neural ripening," a catchphrase for the notion that individuals' developmental timetables differed biologically--and that there wasn't much one could do about it. For decades researchers tried to pin down what percentage of I.Q. is attributable to genes and what percentage to the child's environment. Nature and nurture are so intertwined from the moment of conception that it is impossible to separate them. It's a waste of time to try and determine an exact percentage of influence on any behavioral trait (such as intelligence or academic readiness). The issue is no longer Nature "vs." Nurture, but rather Nature "plus" Nurture. (Contains 8 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10