Two of the main points in Erickson’s theory of identity development are personality and role experimentation. Adolescents are faced with an overwhelming number of choices, and make their way to psychosocial moratorium; Erikson’s term for the gap between childhood security and adult autonomy that adolescents experience as a part of their identity exploration. By late adolescence, vocational roles become essential to identity development. Adolescents that do not find their identity suffer “identity confusion”, causing them to isolate themselves from peers and family or they immerse themselves in peers and lose their sense of identity completely. Identity is composed of many pieces, including career goals, political views, spiritual beliefs, marital status, motivation, sexual orientation, culture, interests, personality, and body image (Santrock 2012).
Melanie Toye
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My students will write a paper in the first week of school about what they want to do when they grow up. It will have to be in Spanish. At the end of the school year, they will write a paper with the same purpose at the first. After writing the second paper, I will give them their paper from the beginning of the year so they can see how not only their ability to write in Spanish has grown, but so they can see how their identities have changed as well (1.3)
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