![]() ![]() Probably over a thousand identity activities have been designed over the past decade, the “age of relevance.” I have selected one that I have used successfully with all types of students: Personality Wheels. A distancing is necessary in order to question and concomitant with this separation is an immersion into other life-styles and experiences. This identity crisis involves the decisions necessary to carry out an adult life: What will I do with my life? Whom will I live with? What religious persuasion, if any, shall I follow? What will my ideals, values, and political beliefs be? These questions involve a separation from parents and other authority figures. Rather, a person would feel isolated and alienated. ![]() ![]() However, being a Victorian woman in the 1980s does not give back rewards or a sense of being a part of something. One may dress, decorate one’s surroundings, speak, and hold the values of that era. One may decide, for example, that one’s true nature is that of a Victorian woman. A sense of identity also includes the ability to adapt one’s needs to the opportunities the environment offers. It is equally important that others recognize this consistency. People need to know that they can trust themselves to behave and feel as they expect to behave and feel in any situation. (Since this stage is of particular interest to high school students, I usually devote more time to it.)Įrikson sees identity as “the capacity to see oneself as having continuity and sameness.” ![]()
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