The other children engaged in the activity the teacher presented, Michael on the other hand was doing his own, nevertheless he did not interrupt the students seating next to him. He did not talk throughout the period I observed him. He played with his pencil, he closes his book and he stared out the …show more content…
"Erik Erikson's theory of identity development proposes that a child's personality and sense of identity are strongly influenced by his or her active efforts to master the psychological and social conflicts of everyday life" Pg 33. Here is this child not socializing in his class, he isn't contributing to the learning process as the other students, could he be having difficulties in his development? I think so, because he is the only child in the class that acts like that; although there are 1 or 2 students who are talking but they are following the lesson when the teacher asks for their attention. Since Michael is in third grade, my guess would be that he is eight or nine years old. Based on the Freud's psychosexual stages and development process; Michael is in latency stage where he would be playing with the same sex. He did not seem to care about that compare to the other students; they group themselves with their own sex. The boys were conversing with each other and the boys were playing fight. Michael should be on industry versus inferiority psychosocial stage which happens around the age six to twelve years old; that means he is on academic pressure to do good and he should be feeling good about himself. Michael does not seem to fit Piaget's cognitive stages and development processes. The cognitive stage he should be is concrete operational, where he can do problem solving. When the