Perry’s Schemes of Intellectual and Ethical Development: A Personal Journey Perry’s Schemes of Intellectual and Ethical Development explains that college student’s journey through 9 different positions in regards to intellectual and ethical development. In this essay, I will work to discover my own moments of intellectual development as an undergraduate student, to find the moments I was “really learning”. (Perry, 1978) Working through Perry’s schemes I will access my own learning entering college with a dualistic perspective of learning and graduating with commitment in relativism.
Dualism
To properly begin looking at Perry’s positions of intellectual development, I believe it is important to first consider the preparation process prior …show more content…
mention, “ relativism is initiated by recognition of the need to support opinions…Relativistic thinkers acknowledge that some opinions are of little value, yet reasonable people can also legitimately disagree on some matters.” (2010). My transition to relativism was due in part because it became vital to my college education to understand that not all classmates and coworkers opinions were credible and valuable to my educational experiences in that their individual knowledge was contextualized to their own perspectives and experiences. Others opinions would be held as valuable for my development based on my perception of their knowledge and the value I assigned to their opinions (D. Taub, personal communication, October 5, 2015). This position became more apparent to me as I received a promotion in my job as a Senior Resident Relations Associate within the Housing Office at UNCG. With my promotion, I became a person of authority, training the new student workers who were hired to operate the front desk in the office. As I had become a person with authority for the new students I would train, it became apparent that those new hires did not have knowledge within the areas I was teaching them. This concept is not complex to understand in that if one has not learned a certain area they cannot be an expert in the area much less provide much of a valuable opinion. Now that I had viewed myself as an expert in my role and was able to train future …show more content…
I have made the decision to enter into the field of Higher Education and work as a Student Affairs professional. Along with this commitment to a career I am faced with the challenge of combining household with that of my fiancée as we prepare to get married. I am also struggling with the campus culture and expectations within my job at Salem College and fitting the demands of my job with my own expectations and life priorities as they are currently misaligning. I currently stand at the beginning of commitment in relativism as I am struggling to find the balance in the conflicting personal themes in my life but making commitments in other areas like with my engagement. I believe I will set at this position for a significant time as I complete my Masters degree and begin my
Dualism
To properly begin looking at Perry’s positions of intellectual development, I believe it is important to first consider the preparation process prior …show more content…
mention, “ relativism is initiated by recognition of the need to support opinions…Relativistic thinkers acknowledge that some opinions are of little value, yet reasonable people can also legitimately disagree on some matters.” (2010). My transition to relativism was due in part because it became vital to my college education to understand that not all classmates and coworkers opinions were credible and valuable to my educational experiences in that their individual knowledge was contextualized to their own perspectives and experiences. Others opinions would be held as valuable for my development based on my perception of their knowledge and the value I assigned to their opinions (D. Taub, personal communication, October 5, 2015). This position became more apparent to me as I received a promotion in my job as a Senior Resident Relations Associate within the Housing Office at UNCG. With my promotion, I became a person of authority, training the new student workers who were hired to operate the front desk in the office. As I had become a person with authority for the new students I would train, it became apparent that those new hires did not have knowledge within the areas I was teaching them. This concept is not complex to understand in that if one has not learned a certain area they cannot be an expert in the area much less provide much of a valuable opinion. Now that I had viewed myself as an expert in my role and was able to train future …show more content…
I have made the decision to enter into the field of Higher Education and work as a Student Affairs professional. Along with this commitment to a career I am faced with the challenge of combining household with that of my fiancée as we prepare to get married. I am also struggling with the campus culture and expectations within my job at Salem College and fitting the demands of my job with my own expectations and life priorities as they are currently misaligning. I currently stand at the beginning of commitment in relativism as I am struggling to find the balance in the conflicting personal themes in my life but making commitments in other areas like with my engagement. I believe I will set at this position for a significant time as I complete my Masters degree and begin my