Judgment

Judgment

ESE380 : The Class : Commander Troy : Pat : Judgment

'Tis with our Judgment as our wathces, none go just alike, yet each believes his own. - Pope, An essay on Critics

One of the fascinating things about human beings is the ability to make judgment. Our thinking is complex and rapid, so complex and in a sense, unpredictable, that we cannot replicate it with artificial intelligence. Our complexity makes it hard for others to understand us - - and contributes to our difficulty understanding others. What's more, human judgment is not just a cognitive process, it is immensed in feelings.

Judge not that ye be not judged. With what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. - The Bible -Matthew

This model show just a few of our interrelated ways of being that impact our judgment. The complexity of human beings, human thinking, and sharing of those ideas, or judgments not to share, sometimes diminish group work. It also make it difficult to understand human nature - - our own and others.

Kohlberh (1987) suggests that judgment (moral reasoning) is developmental. This may mean we are not able to see above our current way of reasoning to grasp another's perspective. We could call it a generation gap (Ginott, 1971) but it is more fundamental. If there is an invisible barrier that does not allow us to fully understand a more advanced way of reasoning or making moral determinations, then group work will be most successful when we recognize the validity of another's judgment and work together to provide opportunities for each person to construct more depth of meaning and move to a higher developmental level of understanding. We recognize this scaffolding or building on concepts in academic areas (Vygotsky, 1978), and it applies to understanding those around us and building second person perspective, as well. [Moral reasoning is not synonymous with character. Basic personality traits seem to be stable, but the way a person interprets motive changes, and apparently in a developmental pattern.]

Judgmental
Where Did I Get That Idea?
. . .and now what will I do? My name is

I was named by

My family wanted me to become

What I really dislike in myself is

What I value about myself is

The characteristics I have the most trouble accepting in others are (ex. skin color, sex, handicaps)

Characteristic

How I got the bias

Things I often hear myself saying about others that are derogatory (gossip, put downs, faulting appearance, drove like, thinks they're)

The jokes I tell usually are at the expense of:

People I talked about in the past week:

Name I said + or -

I do not need to change ________

I can set a goal for myself to be less judgmental:

Goal	Action steps	Time line

Once you have finished you should:

Go back to Lesson 2

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu