Outline of my Eighth Oral Presentation

Driving Identities Transformation Over the Life Span

This is a presentation of Driving Lessons, J. Peter Rothe, University of Alberta Press,

2002, p 97-104 by Mike Boyles and Phil Litke

By Jordyn Shark

Instructions for this Oral Presentations can be found at:

I. Young Children and Road Safely

A. Young Children do very little conscious identity work

B. Focus on doing things for themselves

C. Secondary focus on industry or building basic skills

II. Novice Drivers

A. Driver education programs

i. Goal of creating safe driving practices and attitudes

B. Young male drivers at great risk for accidents

C. Young drivers focused on social and peer interactions

D. Positive Driving attitudes can thus be reached by focusing attention on and challenging the norms of those social groups.

E. Also work to create a separation between driving and identity

III. Middle Aged Drivers

A. main focus is living not forging identity

B. Identities however are not set in stone from adolescents on

C. MADD has significant effects on shifting the acceptability of drinking and driving

D. MADD affirmed the immorality of drunk driving

IV. Elderly Drivers

A. Task is not to form identity but to maintain sense of identity

B. Identity vs. Despair (Erickson)

C. Decision to cease driving based not on pragmatic reasons

D. Loss of driving ability may lead to feelings of loss of personal autonomy

Helpful Links