Stages Of Adulthood Essay

Title : ADULTHOOD

Session Time 2.30 Hours

(150 Minutes) Expected Previous knowledge: Identification of the three stages of adulthood Responsibilities of young adulthood and learning to appreciate new roles.

Career selection and adapting to the new job in young and middle adulthood. Marriage- selection of spouse. Managing interpersonal relationships in the family in young and middle adulthood.

Life Skills empowered: Critical thinking

Creative thinking

Effective communication

Empathy.

Introduction: Change is inevitable, natural and normal. Initially there may be resistance to some of the changes. Unexpected changes such as losing a job, being detected with an illness etc give a feeling of loss of control. We become upset

Childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age

2. Childhood and adolescence is happily accepted

3. Old age is difficult to accept

4. Preparing for each stage of life is a challenge in itself – education, acquisition of skills, preparing for job and vocation, marriage, parenthood and old age.

Summing up:

Conclude that apart from these challenges the powerful messages from media and peer pressure also brings additional challenges such as body image issues during adolescence (size zero, body building, colour of skin etc) and (anti aging crèmes etc) for old age. The modern education needs to bring these additional inputs into teaching learning process and train young people to negotiate these challenges effectively. While change is inevitable, learning to adjust effectively is true growth.

Activity Name Time taken

1.2 VUCA World (Role Play) 45 minutes

1. Group to be divided into four teams. Two teams to enact conventional careers- doctors and teachers and two to enact contemporary careers- fashion designer and hospitality management.

2 The groups have to showcase:

(a). Various factors which influence their choice of careers

(b) Enact the coping strategies, merits and demerits of the