CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Self-actualization needs are the highest level in Maslow’s hierarchy, and refer to the realization of a person’s potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. Maslow (1943) describes this level as the desire to accomplish everything that one can, to become the most that one can be.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most broadly accepted definitions comes from Abraham Maslow, a humanistic psychologist. He described self-actualization as the process of becoming “everything you are capable of becoming.” Kim Egel, a San Diego therapist, similarly explains it as the “ability to become the best version of yourself.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Self-actualization is the final stage in the linear growth of an individual. Maslow believed that in order to achieve this state of personal fulfilment, the person must first satisfy the preceding needs (i.e. physiological, safety, love/belonging, and esteem, in that order).

Detailed explanation-4: -In order to account for people like Mother Teresa, who were clearly self-actualized but also held an apparent desire to “identify with something greater than the individual self, ” Maslow set a higher motivational level above self-actualization. He named this motivational level “self-transcendence."

Detailed explanation-5: -Self-actualization is at the top of the pyramid, as this is the point where a person can say, “I have reached my full potential.” Self-actualization means a person reaching the development of self-fulfillment, self-realization, self-transcendence, self-growth, and self-respect.