Identity Components Of My Education

Every year I look back on the previous and I see how much I have changed. I see the friends I have gained and lost. The heartbreak and the happiness. Despite how rough times have gotten, it has truly made me stronger. Everything has shaped who I am today, it has shaped my identity. Identity is a complex topic because it consists of changeable and unchangeable traits and outside internal influences; my own identity has been shaped by going from private to public school, young life camp, and my current friends.

The student identity is the identity one builds throughout the years of middle school through college where standardized curriculum shapes everyone individually. On the other hand, a person’s learning identity has to do with the way they learn to evolve mentally and spans a person’s lifespan. My student identity right now can be described as a VCU undergrad student majoring in biology as a pre-dental student. The factors that have shaped my student identity would be my personal interest in biology, quality of school I attended, teachers I’ve had even friends have shaped my student identity.

The most difficult time of my life was when I had to leave my country after  having spent fourteen years living in India. As a kid growing up in India, the most significant event in my life was my grandparents deciding I would move to America right before I would start high school. Sadness fell on my face when my parents told me, as I never imagined going to America and leaving all of my friends. There are decisions that can unexpectedly change your life. Mine was coming to a new country and adapting to a foreign environment. After learning how to get through the last four years, I already have experienced a major life change, almost how it will be in college, being separated from friends and having to make new ones.

Being diagnosed with ADHD, learning in school became difficult for me. In the middle of third grade my life completely changed. My mother got a job opportunity and moved my family to Mentor. I was so excited to move to a new place, start a new school and make new friends. I didn't like my old school because the teachers and students always compared me to my sister.

Everyone goes through a challenge at some point in their life. I went through a challenge last year at the beginning of my freshman year attending Foothills Christian High School. Last year, my freshman year I did not know anybody starting the school year. This made me super nervous to start high school. I was also concerned about the three days a week at school and two days homeschool. One of my challenges was going to school and parts of that challenge was not knowing anybody starting school, having to go to school on three days a week instead of five, and not knowing the campus well.

At a young age, having all four of my grandparents die was crushing. One in front of me, two by suicide and one to cancer. In the second grade when my dad went to rehab, not only eroding our relationship, but also tearing apart my family. As a result, during my third grade year, sleep was rare due to the echoing fighting that I would hear in the adjacent room. Meanwhile this lack of sleep only made school worse. Being called a “retard” because dyslexia made it a pain in the ass to read. This fearful environment slowly began to embed anxiety into my young self. Now that my family was begging to get tired of my hometown in Arizona, we packed our bags and moved to San Diego. In 6th grade is where I got into my first fist fight in the middle school locker room, where Mr. Beckley had to break us apart. Only giving me the “new kid” a bad reputation to some, but respect to others. The ones who began to give me respect, would only bring me down further than I already was. On to my later years in middle school where I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Witch felt like a constant rain cloud over me at all times, where the weight of my bed sheets was too much to handle. Therefor causing more chaos in my family. This would give myself an almost constant knot in my throat ready to break down and cry at any part of the day. But like any story, there's light at the end of the tunnel. No matter how long it seems or how dark it gets, there is... Going into my freshman things

The two positions of personal identity over-time consider whether we are ‘tracking persons’ or ‘human beings’. Through analysing Locke’s account of personal identity and his definition of a ‘person’, the first side of this argument will be explained. However in opposition to Locke’s theory, the second position that considers us as ‘human beings’ will also be assessed, as advocated by animalists such as Olson. In response to this examples of cases such as amnesia will also be taken into consideration and how Parfait’s psychological continuity theory resolves prior objections to Locke’s argument made by Butler and Reid. The conclusion reached will show support towards this new Lockean theory of personal identity due to psychological

Identity is a socially and historically constructed concept. An individual learns about their own identity through interactions with family, peers, organizations, media, and educational institutions. Education and identity are two closely related topics. On average, most Americans will spend a fourth of their life in educational institutions. During this time period students are growing and maturing, but most importantly they are discovering themselves. Students realize their qualities, determine their morals, and establish their beliefs during this time of instruction. Undoubtedly, education forms and challenges a person’s identity throughout the years.

One of the most difficult things I have ever Experienced has been My ADHD and when I was younger I had a hard time controlling my bowels. This was the cause of a lot of ridicule throughout my life and had built up a lack of confidence. The Problems were even at home, although my parents were and are very supportive my siblings were not as kind. My older brother had made me feel almost worthless and when my younger brother started to mock me it destroyed me I didn't like feeling like I was lower than my younger brother I wanted to be his role model. There were also problems at school it had effected my school work I wasn't able to perform to the best of my ability which left me feeling dumb and when I had to constantly go to Doctors appointments

This essay is a reflective essay on my learning development from a young age through to my current position as a University Student. I will be relating my learning development back to two theories of human development, Vygotstsky’s socio-cultural theory and Marcia’s version of Erikson’s theory of identity development. I will identify and discuss the challenge I have faced with my identity and how this has impacted on my development.

2. A time that I have struggled in my life is when I was sick and out of school for two weeks and I struggled with not being able to learn with my friends and being able to understand what was going on because my dad had gone to the school and gotten my work for me so I could catch up.

Completing the Identity Art Project made me think about the core elements of my life and what was really important to me. I felt somewhat similar to people in the class by sharing the same ethnicity, age, and hobbies as some. In a class of less than 35 it’s interesting to see the many people who are shares these common aspects as you. One reason why I feel different than my classmates are through their struggles. Many people in our class shared a touching story of the struggles they had to face and I can see how those struggles made them grow as individuals. It made me come to a conclusion where I believe I’m very sheltered compared to these people who had tough lives through suicide, divorces, or a missing parent. It made me realized even

Personal identity is essential in the human experience. Identity is complex and can be broken down into two main groups: introspective identity, and bodily identity. Introspective identity is based off of the groups, mentalities, or beliefs that you align yourself with, and bodily identity is based off of the physical side of yourself. Whether physical or introspective, your identity impacts every action you take. Whether choices ranging from what colors you prefer to which college you want to attend are primarily based off of your introspective identity, which is a combination of both memory and consciousness, physical identity impacts how others perceive you. Consciousness is mainly the awareness of bodily identity as well as continuous introspective identify, while memory is awareness of introspective identity. These two different facets of identity are imperative in the distinction between bodily identity and introspective identity. In means of personal identity introspective identity (which is evident in memory), is essential, while bodily identity (based partially in consciousness) has less credit.

Going through change as a kid can be a challenging experience, however when I was eight years old, I went through a relatively big change that I handled fairly well. When I was in the beginning of the second grade, I wanted to switch schools so badly that I begged my parents every night at supper time. I had enough of getting pushed around and being made fun of by the mean girls at school. I had thought most of them were my friends, but they ended up stabbing me in the back and spreading rumours about me. Everyday I would hide somewhere in the playground to avoid being shoved into muddy puddles or have things stolen from me.

The identity has significant value in order to become engineers because I am from Asia and most people think that Asian are smart. This make me work extra hard because I don’t want to fall behind. The country that I am from is people are smart and they know the value of education and they are very competitive. This encourage me to choose high profile majors. There without my identity I wouldn’t work that because my identity make me challenge myself and without this m identity would be