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A 7 page paper. A synopsis of Perry's 9 positions of development is provided. The positions reflect the college/university student's growth as they progress through the higher education institution. The writer comments on Perry's theory. The paper then turns to a specific student who is in a graduate program, describes the student's situation and suggests what position this student is exhibiting. The paper also offers an alternative explanation that suggests a new gradate student is at the very beginning of the process again. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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must be recognized, they must be viewed in terms of where they are (Knefelkamp, 2003). This has to do with what Perry called positionality (Knefelkamp, 2003). Rapaport (2006) provides a
synopsis of these very important developmental positions. These nine steps basically represent an intellectual steps of growth, becoming more complex at each stage and placing more responsibility on the student
at each stage. Perry did not believe in "stages" per se because he believed that stages imprisoned students instead of recognizing them as always being in motion (Knefelkamp, 2003). Thats
why he called his Schema positions. A. Dualism/Received Knowledge is based on the belief that there are right and wrong answers. At this stage, students typically view the teacher
as the one with the right answer (Newsletter for Teaching Excellence, 1999). 1. Basic Duality believes that all problems can be solved and it is the students responsibility to do
that, to learn what the right solution is (Rapaport, 2006; Student, you should also reference the book chapter by Knefelkamp you sent us). 2. Full dualism where there are various
authorities who disagree on what the right solution is so the student must learn which authorities have the right solution and ignore those that have the wrong one (Rapaport, 2006;
Student, you should also reference the book chapter by Knefelkamp you sent us). B. Multiplicity/Subjective Knowledge. There are many conflicting answers to any problem so the student must rely on
their instinct or inner voice to determine the right answer (Rapaport, 2006; Student, you should also reference the book chapter by Knefelkamp you sent us). 3. Early multiplicity has to
do with the belief there are just two kinds of problems, some we know the answer to and some we dont. Students are still responsible to learn the right answer
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