THE STUDENT’S IDENTITY MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN ACADEMIC LEARNING. Nowadays education system has applied a widespread curricula, it does not focus in the real context, and students’ necessities consequently, we have students that only follow paths without own thinking or active and creative knowledge. Thus, I believe that the best and real learning opportunity is when teachers create a wide difference in academic learning such as the quality of education, centered on the student’s identity thus, the present work focuses on the student’s identity makes a difference in academic learning because there is a strong connection between identity and academic learning.
On the one hand, academic learning is an important aspect inside of teaching learning
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Do I have the identical students? Are students identical? What influences student’s identity? In order to solve some doubts, the author reviewed some literature: “Identity: who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others” (Cambridge, s.f.) According to this definition, students have individual differences and each one is a world, everyone has a different reality, living in a different time, and place. “You have to make that social and emotional connection with kids in order to get inside their heads. The fact that you care makes them see you differently”. (Douglas, 2000) Therefore, student’s identity is an important aspect to identify why our students have difficulties in the teaching-learning process (academic dimension) ; with other words, teachers with a wide expectation of teaching- learning process use effective – strategies (student’s identity )to create a good environment inside a classroom that helps their students becoming a self- directed learner, but without forgetting that inside this process should mediate four fundamental axes: students, teachers, parents, and community members in order to solve difficulties in teaching learning
The establishment of one’s identity is the central development issue during their college years. Arthur Chickering's Seven Vectors theorize the "tasks" that students must go through while developing their identity. Vectors is a development that students can experience, but usually students or people can experience them through a series of multiple steps; and they are not necessary done in any sequential order. More like, multiple and clustered, patterns of behavior developing over a period with someone. And because this experience isn’t sequential, students move through these different “stages” at different rates, different complexities, and at different times.
In this paper I will present the numerous theories built around the process of establishing one’s identity and provide examples of how this identity shapes a students involvement and actions while in school. I will also reflect on the importance for systems that foster identity formation that is equal for both inner-city and suburban children. It is crucial to the success of America’s schools to understand that a mixture of cultures creates a mixture of identi...
The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain thus particular psychological states are identical with particular type of physical state. Many objections have been lay out by philosophers who have evaluated this theory one objection that is particularly strong is the Martian and octopus criticism which state that if identity theory is true, than these species should not feel pain, but if they do feel pain than identity theory is not true.
In this assignment I am going to cover the aspects of my learner identity by referencing to relevant texts and ideas. A learner identity is the way in which an individual processes and makes sense of educational information and here are my thoughts on my learner identity.
Before beginning the explanation of how an identity is formed, one must understand what an identity is. So, what is identity? To answer this, one might think of what gives him individuality; what makes him unique; what makes up his personality. Identity is who one is. Identity is a factor that tells what one wants out of life and how he is set to get it. It tells what kind of a person one is by the attitude and persona he has. And it depends upon the mixture of all parts of one’s life including personal choices and cultural and societal influences, but personal choices affect the identity of one more than the others.
Many philosophers and psychologist from Jean Piaget to William James have theorized what makes a person who they are, their identity. Jean Piaget believed that the identity is formed in the sensorimotor stage and the preoperational stage. This means that a child is forming his identity as late to the age of seven (Schellenberg, 29) However, identity is strongly impacted by society such as school, church, government,and other institutions. Through our interactions with different situations our personality develops (Schellenberg 34). "In most situations there is a more diversified opportunity for the development of social identities, reflecting what the individual wants to put forth to define the self as well as what others want to accept,"(Schellenberg 35). Therefore, humans, much like animals, adapt to different situations based on who they are with. Individuals are always changi...
1. The identity theory (reductive materialism) states that mental states are brain states. Basically each mental state/process is the same as the physical state or process(es) within the brain. What they say about the mind is that the mind is just the brain and mental states are brain states.
Human development is a highly complex lifelong process. Identity is a self-definition or sense of who one is, where one is going, and how one fits into society. It relates to our basic values that dictates the choices we make in life. It is considered that identity formation is a means of finding oneself, by matching one’s talent with available social roles. Crisis is a vital part in one’s development. It occurs in every stage of finding one’s self and without resolution, may lead to tension and role confusion. Dedicated and influential theorists such as Erik Erikson and James Marcia have contributed significantly to the broadening and understanding
Identity is a person’s socially and historically constructed concept. We learn and determine our own identity through the interactions of family, peers, media and also other connections that we have encounter in our life. Gender, social class, age and experience of the world are the key concepts which plays a substantial role in shaping how we are by facing obstacles in our lives. According to Mead (1934) as cited in Thulin, Miller, Secher, and Colson (2009), identity theory determines
I believe that I fall under the status of identity achievement. In reflecting upon my life, I feel that I had set a course for myself and accomplished many of my goals. I wouldn’t say that I explored many alternatives early on. My parents raised me as a Catholic and I have not strayed away from my faith nor searched for alternatives. From an early age, I wanted to be an elementary school teacher, get married and have children. Those goals were accomplished but not without set-backs along the way. I graduated college with a BA in Elementary Education, got married and had a child. However, not everything went as planned. I taught for several years but then decided to explore other avenues thinking that if I did, that I would be satisfied after
Identity. What is identity? One will say that it is the distinct personality of an individual. Others will say that identity is the behavior of a person in response to their surrounding environment. At certain points of time, some people search for their identity in order to understand their existence in life. In regards, identity is shaped into an individual through the social trials of life that involve family and peers, the religious beliefs by the practice of certain faiths, and cultural awareness through family history and traditions. These are what shape the identity of an individual.
Does the student’s identity is only student? Absolutely not, identity make people different with others, student identity may be the majority characteristic, while their have many other groups that we could belong to, some of which are easily to see from appearance, some are inside our mind that even ourselves could not notice. And they are not constant, like our taste on food changes in different stage of our lives. Sometimes our identities changes because of the change in one main identity like my student identity transformed from high school student to university students, which changed my other identities less or more during the first year in college.
How do teachers enable all students of varying abilities to reach the same goals and standards established for their grade level? Instruction begins with a concept of treating each student as a unique learner whose strengths and weaknesses ha...
Identity is the essence of a person which makes him stand out as an individual. There are various factors which help form and evolve a person's persona, and that is what I write about in the follwing essay.
Self-identity is one of the main themes of philosophy throughout its history. In general, “self-identity” is a term that means thoughts or feelings with which you distinguish you from others, and we use the term in ordinary conversation without a solid concept of “self-identity”. However, arguing about self-identity philosophically, there arise many questions: whether there is any essence of yourself, whether you are the same person as you when you were a baby, whether memory or experience makes you, and what is “self-identity.” To solve these questions, many philosophers have been arguing the topic “self identity” for so long.