Description
Final Paper: Your Explicit Theory of Conflict and Change
In this final paper, you are asked to elaborate on your (now explicit) theory of conflict and change by addressing the question: "How have the ideas, models, theories and methods from the course challenged, expanded or bolstered your theory of conflict and change?” Be specific about how your thinking has changed over the term, referring back to your initial implicit theory. Employ and cite as broad a range of the ideas and models from the course as possible, and include a synthesis of how this change in your thinking will likely affect your practice.
The paper should provide clear evidence of the degree to which you have identified, comprehended, and intend to apply new ideas, insights and methods from the content of the course. It should include:
a) a brief summary of the assumptions evident in your very first implicit theory statement from the class automatic writing task,
b) a discussion of how specific theories, models and methods from the course have most affected your thinking on conflict and change,
c) a description of the resulting model of conflict resolution that will inform your practice going forward, and it should culminate with
d) some type of visual figure - a PowerPoint slide or image or visual model - of your final explicit theory.
Sample Solution