Identity Development Theory: Origins
New Approaches to Identity Development Theory
Future Research in Identity Development Theories
Identity and Intersections
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The most commonly taught theories related to identity and identity development are rooted in this?
What is Psychology?
100
This theory considers identity and gender as fluid and recognizes the beliefs that historically categorized some behaviors and attractions as nonconforming.
What is queer theory?
100
This technology has created new venues for identity expression.
What are on-line social networks (e.g., Facebook, MySpace)?
100
A framework for the study and understanding of identity, grew out of the field of critical legal studies and the scholarship for women of color.
What is intersectionality?
200
Sociologists refer to these as identities that encompass personal traits (e.g., intelligence, race) and roles (e.g., music major, college student, athlete).
What are felt identities?
200
This theory places the influence of culture, with an acknowledgement of the importance of race and ethnicity, at the center of what is being researched and considered.
What is CRT (Critical Race Theory)?
200
This may create disequilibrium on a student, providing impetus for identity exploration that leads to further development.
What are international experiences?
200
This model distinguishes between social identities and personal identity, depicted as “core sense of self”
What is Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity (MMDI)?
300
This is commonly understood as one’s personally held beliefs about the self in relation to social groups.
What is identity?
300
The use of CRT (Critical Race Theory) among Latinos is called this.
What is LatCrit?
300
This kind of approach to racial identity allows for the student’s racial identity to shift over time and place.
What is a fluid approach?
300
This person said: “Living our identities is much like breathing. We don’t have to ask ourselves each morning who we are. We simply are.”
Who is Josselson?
400
This frames identity as an individual characteristic that plays a role in influencing interactions between the developing person and his or her environment, and identity development as an interactive process between individual and environment that leads to increasingly complex understanding of self and self in context.
What is Human and Development Ecology?
400
Among others, CRT, LatCrit, queer theory help researchers and practitioners to highlight the experiences of these?
What are marginalized populations?
400
Rather than focusing tightly on identity development of specific student populations (e.g., racial and ethnic groups, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, and women), some scholars have begun to examine this.
What is the whole student?
400
This individual provided an organizational framework to represent the evolution of thinking about identity.
Who is Hall?
500
These philosophies are based on the idea that "there are no objective and universal truths, but that particular forms of knowledge, and the ways of being that they engender, become 'naturalised' in culturally and historically specific ways"
What are Postmodernism and Poststructuralism?
500
These can influence how the identities of minority group members are seen and valued.
What are societal views of a privileged majority?
500
The tools with which student development scholars currently assess and understand these are not adequate to support the theoretical advancements currently underway in the field.
What are student environments?
500
This person said: “Being Black and lesbian confers a unique experience, above and beyond being Black or lesbian.”
Who is Lisa Bowleg?