While reading Identity in Context by Nakkula and
Toshalis it spoke about how “our goal is to help educators move beyond an
understanding of adolescent identity development and toward constructive ideas
for promoting such development through their everyday interactions (pg 17).”
Context mapping
is an approach to design in which designers use people’s everyday lives to
inform and inspire themselves for ideation.
While thinking about my own context map I had to categorize it by
categories such as home, school, work and social.
Four different
identities would be achieved identity, foreclosed identity, moratorium and
diffuse identity. “Foreclosed identity
status is one in which an individual has committed to a life direction or way
of being without exploring it carefully and without experimenting with
alternatives (Nakkula and Toshalis p29)”.
While I was growing up I had a foreclosed identity status when I was
choosing what vehicle to drive. My
parents, sisters and relatives have always had a Toyota so when it was time for
me to buy a car; I went straight to a Toyota dealership. No questions asked on the brand of car I was
going to get, only idea I pondered was what type. I went for the Corolla; my new baby and at
that point forward I was part of the norm in my family of going with
Toyota.
“Diffuse Identity status is a state in which there has been
little exploration or active consideration of a particular identity and no psychological
commitment to one” (Nakkula and Toshalis p32).
This is considered to accompany adolescents and how they struggle with
emotional problems to identify themselves.
I liked your example of foreclosed identity because even though it's simply like the baseball example given in the text, it really helps people gain an understanding of what it means.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. I like how you attached pictures for your your personal context map. You also gave a good example of your foreclosed identity while growing up. Between, Toyota is the way to go- they will last you forever!
-Milena
Hey Melissa!
ReplyDeletePiggy backing off of what Milena said, I loved how you used actual pictures from your life in you context map.It makes it seem much more personal!
-Brittany
Melissa, your context map is great. I like that even though you had categories like home, school, work, and social life, you also had sub-identities in there too. You have different names you go by based on where you are. It seems like you have a many positive identities that allow you to pull strengths from different areas. Awesome job!
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