Sunday, August 19, 2012
What's my paradigm?
In the first blog post, discuss what you think your dominant paradigm is. Remember, a paradigm contains all the assumptions you bring to the world...so it's often hard to be aware of. Think about your parents and the way you've been raised, as a good start. Then, talk about any ways that you've had to "shift" your paradigm.
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Thanks for the thoughtful responses, class. It sounds like you are all pretty aware of the general outlines of your paradigms, though I would have liked to hear more about how your paradigm affects your specific judgments and reactions to particular situations.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, I’d like to see responses that are more the length of Alex’s, as that gives you some room to develop and support your ideas, going into further detail. I would ask you to think about what your paradigms are in certain areas of life beyond work, which many of you talked about. Consider your paradigm about relationships, for example, or about foreign countries and cultures. It’s also interesting to ask yourself where those paradigms came from—personal experience, the media (and which media?), friends, inherited beliefs (parents or family), etc. If your paradigm is a religious one, how do you treat the paradigms of other religions, or atheism?
Is there such a thing as a scientific paradigm? Does it conflict with yours, or align with it in some way? I’d like to see each of you respond to some of these ideas in another blog post. I look forward to continuing a dialogue!