Given such preconceptions of human nature, including the relatively recent area of educational genomics, can be seen as a responsibility of an educational system to recognize the innate skills of a child and then guide them on a training path that is better to encourage those skills and transform that individual into a productive member of the community. Clearly, this is not the goal of a modern educational system, which depends more on individual choice and motivation. But such beliefs can still affect the thinking of teachers: they can see that some students are more talented than others and focus on them more than students who have difficulty learning. It is possible that they can not recognize the learning difficulties and simply think that a particular student has reached the maximum capacity of it and is a loss of effort to try to teach them more.
Biological conception of man and teaching methods.
The classical biological conception of man is not very evident in the modern classroom outside the values and attitudes of teachers (as explained above). However, there are some modern ideas about education that continues the idea of biological determinism. An example is the educational genomics area that we discussed previously, and that includes a proposal of the so-called "learning styles". The assumption is that if we discover the innate learning style of a student, we can improve the learning of it. The usual categories include visual students, audio students, kinetic students, etc. And there are numerous online tools to discover what style of learning a particular defendant towards.
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