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UNIT I
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

MODULE 4
Theories of Development:
ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

Objectives:

 Describe the 8 stages of Erikson theory of development.

 Differentiate the Psycho-social crisis in different life stages.

 Value the importance of the virtue and maladaptation/malignancy in every stages of
Psycho-social development.

 Know the ways on how this theory can be useful for us as a future teacher.

Introduction:

 Erik Erikson's (1902-1994) was a stage theorist who took Freud’s controversial theory of
psychosexual development and modified it as psycho-social theory.
 Erikson’s emphasize that the ego makes positive contributions to development by
mastering attitudes, ideas and skills at each stage of development.
 Mastery of this theory will help the children grows into successful, contributing members
of society.
 This is very powerful model. It is very accessible and obviously relevant to modern life
from several different perspectives for understanding and explaining how personality and
behavior develops in people. Each stage involves psychosocial crises,
malignancy/maladaptation and virtue.

 Words to Remember:

Psychosocial crisis
- Two opposing emotional forces.

Virtue of Psychosocial Strength
- This virtue will help us through the rest of the stages of our lives.

Malignancy
- it involves too little positive and too much of the negative aspect of the task.

Maladaptation
- not quite as bad and involves too much of the positive and too little of the negative.

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