Errol John V.

Amoro Facilitating Learner Centered Teaching

BSED 1- Social Studies

Module 6: Psychosocial, Psychosexual, and Humanist Theories of Learning

Activity 1: On the space provided before each item, write “YES” if the statement is true and
“NO” if it is false.
1. According to Freud, gratification from urinating and defecating is experienced by an 8-
year-old children.
Answer: NO
2. Freud’s challenges in an individual’s identity is called crisis.
Answer: NO
3. The epigenetic principle refers to the different stages because Erickson believed that
human beings develop through a pre-determined unfolding of personalities.
Answer: YES
4. The unconscious desire of the 3-6 years old children according to Freud happens in
phallic stage.
Answer: YES
5. Erickson believed that when there is too little of the positive and too much of negative
aspect, maladaptation occurs.
Answer: NO
6. The ego is the rational, logical and problem-solving component of personality.
Answer: YES
7. Teachers ensuring that teenagers have opportunities to develop a sense of self and
personal identity through group tasks happens primarily in stage 6 (intimacy vs.
confusion).
Answer: NO
8. According to Erickson, the best time to let the children feel that the environment is
secured, and non-threatening is stage 3 (trust vs. mistrust)
Answer: NO
9. The structure based on the child’s internalization of the adult’s attributes, beliefs and
standards is called superego.
Answer: YES
10. The reawakening of sexual urges according to Freud happens during the puberty age.
Answer: YES

Activity 2
1. Knowing the salient features of the theories of Erickson and Freud what may be a few of
thesis implications for beginning teachers?
Answer:
For beginning teachers in the future these two well-known theories of development of
psychosexual theory by Sigmund Freud and the psychosocial theory by Erik Erikson are crucial
for us. Erikson's theory was different in a number of significant ways, despite the fact that he was
influenced by Freud's views. Erikson's theory describes the effects of social experience
throughout the entire life of the student, in contrast to Freud's conception of psychosexual
phases. These theories can help us in the future to determine the fact that children develop in
stages that can be predicted and have distinguishing traits. In order to show this growth, a child
should achieve specific developmental discovery. The knowledge of these milestones is
necessary for professionals like us in the future working with learners, such as future teachers.
The students' developmental stage must be considered in all lessons and activities, which is one
of the important implications in the field of teaching. The child needs to be well trained or get
knowledgeable at these stages in order to develop a responsible person in future.

Activity 3: Fill up the boxes with the salient features of Kohlberg’s Moral Development and the
arrows with specific classroom implications or applications.

Pre- Conventional Morality

Stage 1: Obedience and
punishment Stage 2: Individualism
Giving the students the chance to help create a
rules and regulations in the classroom with a MO
light punishment upon it. It can help them to be
and exchange
aware and become responsible for the rules
that they set and follow them in their own.
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Conventional Morality
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One of the classroom implications on this stage
Stage 3: Developing good interpersonal
relationships Stage 4: Maintaining
is to Make time for role playing, especially
solving social problems. It can help the students
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social order
to build interpersonal relationship to others of
the events that are occurring by taking on
different roles.

Post- Conventional Morality One of the classroom implication of this stage is

Stage 5: Social contract and to plan a group projects where students work
individual rights stage 6: Universal together toward understanding the lesson
principles
instead of sitting back and listening to the
teacher talk at them. It can encourage
collaboration which is related to social
contract.

This theory focus on One of the classroom implication of this theory

is to giving them a time to realize what
how children develop
differences between right and wrong. It is
morality and moral either an activity through making reflection
reasoning. about themselves that are related to the topic
that are being discussed.

Activity 4
1. Explain why moral education must be a part of the school curriculum even until tertiary
level. What do you think are the probable challenges that the school might face once
moral education is given emphasis in the curriculum?
Answer:
Moral education must be a part of the school curriculum at all levels from primary to
tertiary because there is one simply reason, and this is that morality is the basic foundation of the
people to live in this world. As a human beings, we must uphold to know or determine what are
the right and wrong. It is our nature as a human being. From a young age of the human being
like everyone of us, the children or the learners are be able to get exposure to different learning
from the concept of disciplines that are connected to their moral aspect. it also helps in
developing their critical thinking among the learners as they tend to become more rational and
understanding of the situation around them.
I think the probable challenges that the school might face on giving emphasis to the
moral development at schools is that getting criticism to those people that are not agree to the
moral education exposed in curriculum. It is because the learners in our country are diverse, they
have many difference in terms of their background especially to their cultural morals. One of the
example of this is that the school are teaching that according to the morality that has been
recognized by the majority, and there is a instances that the other learners which is those things
are not their basis of morality in their background. So the system of education or the curriculum
itself must considered that differences of the learners in terms of their morality from their
backgrounds.

2. New reports show that there are students who have suicidal tendencies or have
committed suicide. Suggest two concrete activities that would help students to realize the
value of life.
Answer:
Nowadays, the main cause of death for young people in school is suicide. Many of this
issues has been circulated in all platforms of media. The latest suicide that I hear from the news
is in one of the prestigious university in Cebu. The student has been jump from the 9 th floor of
the building. In myself it is very sad news and very painful for the family of the student.
However, suicide can be avoided in many ways. Young people who are thinking about suicide
usually display indicators of despair. The best people to recognize these indications and seek
assistance are parents, teachers, and friends. The two concrete activities that I would suggest for
the students to realize the value of life are giving them a symposium about suicide prevention
and building a more connection or relationship between the teacher to students or student to
student interactions. These activities can help the students nowadays to realize that there lives
has a purpose on this world. If they feel connected to everyone with a healthy relations to others
it can give a positive impact or emotions to them and they might perform in school regularly and
participate different learning activities that can help them to be molded as a responsible citizens
and learners of the society.

3. If you were to critic the application of Kohlberg’s theory to education, what

maybe its weakness or loopholes? Explain your answer.
Answer
: If I were the critic, maybe its weakness is the conflict with other moral
standards of other cultures or beliefs. One of the examples of this is the
 implementation of the morality of the majority for everyone, even though
they don't even notice that there is a difference in the origin or
background of the people who depend on or live in that area.

Activity 6: Using the Exit Ticket graphic organizer, reflect on your

learning from this lesson by filling up the boxes to reflect your
metacognitive thinking.

Answer:

Today, my learning was Today, I considered a new Today I’m curtained

disrupted because idea or concept that I learned
My learning is disrupted because I considered a new idea about the Im curtained that I learned
I have so many concerns, Moral development theory of about the theory of Moral
problems and household chores Kolhberg and the Psychosexual theory development, Psychosexual
to do in our house. But I am of Erick erikson. These learning Theory has a great impact to
trying to manage my time at my greatly help me to know what are the me. It is because I will use all of
convenient. different stages of development the knowledge and ideas that I
especially in our moral reasoning and have learned as a teacher in the
the different stages of psychosexual future. It is the way to commit
theory that explains the importance on myself that I am willing to teach
it to the people like us especially to in the future.
the learners.