Dualism Strategy

. As I think about the different cognitive strategies such as Bloom’s Taxonomy, Perry’s Scheme and SOLO, I have come to realize that (Perry’s Scheme) is the strategy that promotes critical thinking in a greater aspect in a college student. A great example of this, in my opinion, is looking back at my own personal college experience and seeing how such has been transitioning through the different cycles of this particular strategy. Before I move on into explaining of how my own personal college experience can be analyzed through Perry’s Scheme, I think it is important to state each aspect of the strategy and what each one indicates. The strategy is made up of four cycles; Dualism, Multiplism, Relativism, and Commitment. In the Dualism cycle, it is stated that a person looks at things with a simplistic view and or with a black and white mentality. If I was to give an example of Dualism through my own college …show more content…
Next in the Perry’s Scheme sequence, comes Multiplism; stating that a person begins to understand that there is more than one perspective to certain things. Again, referring back to my own college experience (Multiplism= 2nd semester of college, or possibly 2nd year). Usually during a student’s second year, they are starting to mature and respect and value perspectives other than their own. Moving on with Perry’s Scheme, Relativism is the third stage in the sequence. During this stage, a person becomes more comfortable understanding and considering different points of view. Relativism can be a student’s third year, because I have come to realize that during this time period, college students for the most part enter a higher level of maturity, and have some sort of vision in regards to their future. Lastly in Perry’s Scheme, comes the stage of commitment. The commitment aspect of the strategy states that a person is efficient considering different points of view; this of course, following the sequence of my example can be referred to a student’s final