If so, what change does this create to their point of view? We live in a professional world that goes fast and where people do not always take the time to step back. When going fast, leaders often confuse their perspectives with reality and have difficulty truly understanding the point of view of others. A perspective is not right or wrong by default. It just is what it is: the point of view of a single person based on their life experiences and values, among other things.
We each have one; sometimes we share it with others, and sometimes we do not. Our perspectives shape how we act or react in a situation. What could be different in your leadership if you chose to be more generous in your interpretations of perspectives? What could be different in your personal leadership if you could better take, seek and coordinate perspectives?
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Enable or Disable Cookies. Similarly, in humane education, when we tackle an issue with students, it is important that we ask them to look at a situation from the perspectives of multiple people and animals, as well as the health of our natural world. We encourage youth to create win-win solutions when possible by providing them with different scenarios. One such scenario that we introduce to our students is about elephants and farmers in Tanzania.
As the population in a particular community in Tanzania grew, the people expanded the area of where they lived and farmed. Some families ended up living closer to the elephants than anyone ever had before. If nothing was done to resolve the problem, people definitely would have suffered. Some people thought the only solution was to kill the elephants, which would not only have devasted the elephant population, but would be harmful to the ecosystem as well.
For some situations, it is easier to find a win-win solution than others, and I in no way intend to minimize the complexity of issues. For example, when we teach students about animals used in entertainment, we ask students to compare the lives of the animals in captivity to how those animals would live in their natural habitats. We also ask them to think about why animals are used for entertainment, such as creating jobs for people and providing people of all ages an opportunity to see wild animals up close, who they may not have been able to see otherwise.
In my experience, when students take the whole situation into consideration, the majority decide that they do not think animals should be used in entertainment because they think the interests of the animals far outweigh the interests of the people who want to see them perform.
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