ABSTRACT
The word paradigm was originally defined by Kuhn (1962) as the views shared by a scientific community but Capra (1996) describes how it is now widely used to describe the concepts, values, perceptions and practices shared by any group of people. Thus a paradigm is learnt from experience of living and working in a community. A paradigm shapes the decisions we make and the actions we take. It determines how we see the world, other people and their behaviour.
