HABITS OF MIND

 Habits-of-Mind+ Points of View=Frames-of-Reference

• Refers to Your Orientations & World Views

• Patterns of Behavior: Perfectionist, Competent, Incompetent.

• Does it Matter if You are on a Remote Work Team with introverts or extroverts?

• Your Thinking Style: Similar to that of an Attorney, Soldier, or Educator etc.

• Are Others Seen as Inferior Compared to Yourself?

• Are You a Perfectionist?

• Do You Respect or Challenge Authority?

    Points of View=Expressing Your Habits-of-Mind

• Clusters of Meaning Schemes Connected with Sets of Immediate Beliefs, Attitudes, Feelings, Judgments, and Expectations.

• They Shape the Way We Interpret Our Experience and Determine the Way We Judge, Justify People, Actions and Locate Blame.

• Meaning Schemes Cause Us to Respond Without Being Aware or Without Questioning Our Actions We Just Automatically Act or Respond.

• Judging the Way Others Will Behave, what Others Will Be Like and Our Idolized Image of them (your future boss, your future wife etc.).

• Create a Line of Action We Follow Automatically Unless it is called into Question through Critical Reflection.

  Frames-of-Reference

• It Can Include philosophical, Economic, Sociological and Psychological Positions.

• Represent our Cultural Paradigms (groups of belief systems absorbed from our caregivers).

• It is the Way We Interpret Experience Based Upon our Guarded Beliefs About Ourselves and World.

• A Meaning Perspective that is Based On the way in which we filter our world through structures of assumptions and expectations.

• It Provides the Context through which We Make Meaning and Choose What and How that Experience will Be Construed or Applied.

• It is the Way We Interpret Experience Based Upon our Guarded Beliefs About Ourselves and World.

Reference:

Mezirow, J. (2000). “Learning to Think Like an Adult: Core Concepts of Transformation Theory.” In Learning as Transformation, edited by J. Mezirow (pp. 3-34). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.