Overview of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development

1. Erik Erikson 1902-1994
By: McKel Baker, Tony Bradshaw, and Alex Copple

2. Background
 Born in Germany 1902
 Name was Erik Homberger
 Graduated High school
 Teacher
 Married Joan Serson
 Harvard, Yale, University of California at Berkley, clinic in Massachusetts
 Changed his name to Erik Erickson
 Wrote Childhood and Society
 Retired in 1970
 Died in 1994

3. Influences
Influences:
 Sigmund Freud
 Anna Freud (daughter of Sigmund Freud)
Psychologists:
 Henry Murray
 Kurt Lewin
Anthropologists :
 Gregory Bateson
 Margaret Mead
 Ruth Benedict

4. Psychosocial Development
Stages
 Stage One – Trust vs. Mistrust
 Stage Two – Autonomy vs. Doubt
 Stage Three – Initiative vs. Guilt
 Stage Four – Industry vs. Inferiority

5. Stages continued
 Stage Five- Identity vs. Role Confusion
 Stage Six- Intimacy vs. Isolation
 Stage Seven- Generativity vs. Self Absorption
 Stage Eight- Integrity vs. Despair

6. Critique
 Stage Approach (Piaget, Sigmund and Anna Freud)
 Most theorists prefer an incremental approach
 Same Stages completed in a different age range
 How does one progress from one stage to another?
 Why does one progress to the next stage?

7. Classroom Applications
 Stages IV and V when school has greatest influence
 Teaching Tips (stage IV)
 teachers must care (set them up to succeed)
 Students are dedicated to the rules
 Teaching Tips (stage V)
 Aid Students to answer the question: “Who am I?”
 Define what success means for the individual
 Be a role model and guide their identity finding
 Rites of passage

8. References
 Educational Psychology by Robert Slavin
 http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/erikson.html
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