Treisman’s workshops teach the skills of group learning that directly make learning calculus easier. But what were these skills correcting for? Here his anthropological research was revealing. They were correcting a tendency among these black students to protectively isolate themselves and to over commit to self-sufficiency—strategies that might help them avoid people who they worried might stereotype them, but that would also isolate them from help they needed.
Want to know more about this group formation and forced interaction: practically speaking, how did they go about doing it? Was there any resistance and what to do in the face of it? (Especially before they had determined that it would lift performance?)
