Kurt Lewin's Theory
- 1. KURT LEWIN’S THEORY OF ADOLESCENCE Karina FernándezLeonel Sierra
- 2. Transition of a groupmembershipAdulthoodResponsibilityIdentityCommitmentsRebellious attitudesVulnerabilityHormonal changesChildhood
- 3. “Lewin’s Life Space”The life space consists of all events in our past, present and future that help shape and affect us. Each of the events helps determine our behavior in any given situation we are in. The life space also consists of a person’s needs in interaction with the psychological environment
- 4. Social factors of developmentSocial historyGoalsExperiencesSocial classFamily structureFormal educationReligion ideologiesInformal educationCulturePolitical ideologiesThe adolescent doesn’t belong completely to any group:Not children nor Adults
- 5. “Individual development”Lewin was interested in people individually instead of in a group.Lewin also proposed a basic state of equilibrium between the person and the environment.Lewin promoted sensitivity training for educators and parents to reduce conflicts.Lewin focused mainly on social problems that affect how a person lives and works.Lewis also proposed a basic state of equilibrium between the person and the environment.
- 6. EducationAdolescents get confused easily , they don’t have a direction to their specific goals , because the don’t have defined goals, although they’re open to constructive guidance.
- 7. Adolescents are vulnerable to persuasion, seduction, and group pressure, teachers must provide a safe environment based on respect
- 8. Communication between teacher and students promotes confidence in the students and helps the teacher to understand students needs
- 9. Adolescents may show shyness and sensitivity but at the same time aggressiveness, mainly because of the unclearness of the situation and the disequilibrium, Teachers have to deal with a different person almost every dayEducationThere is a predisposition in the adolescents to take extreme positions and to change behavior drastically, Teachers have to give them a participative role during the class to avoid the authority image the take of the teacher.
- 10. Teachers must treat the adolescents patiently with more understanding of what goes in to their life, if they allow you to ask personal questions, ask them what they want to answer.
- 11. Listen to them
- 12. Don’t treat them like an old child
- 13. Treat them like young adultsReferences:Accel-team.coml(n.d.). Change management technique: Kurt Lewin's force field analysis. Greathouse, J. (n.d.). Kurt Lewin. Psychology History. Jones, M. J. (n.d.). Class bios of Kurt Lewin.Schein, E. H. (n.d.). Kurt Lewin's change theory in the field and in the classroom: Notes toward a model of managed learning. SoL onlineSmith, M. K. (2001). Kurt Lewin: Groups, experiential learning and action research. the encyclopedia of informal education.Available at: http://wilderdom.com/theory/FieldTheory.html[ Accessed 20 May 2011].Karina FernándezLeonel Sierra