Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was a well-known psychologist, who
accepted and expanded the Freud’s idea about the psychoanalytic theory and
about his own life experience. Erikson’s
theory mainly talks about the development across the entire lifespan of a
person (Baron, 2001). Erikson’s theory is based on specific stages of
development a person come across in his entire life. There are eight stages in
Erikson's psychosocial development theory and “each stage of development shows
its own unique challenges, which Erikson called as crises” (Fleming, 2004). The
first four stages of development are occurring during the childhood and one
take place in adolescence and other three occur during adulthood. According to
Baron (2001), Erikson believed that each stage of life is marked by a specific
crisis or conflict between competing tendencies. These stages of development
affects the person’s learning and education and these theories can be applied
in a classroom. Erikson’s eight stages development mainly focus on the
development of a person within the social context.
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