Self-esteem: the genesis and formation of a socially constructed attribute

• Autor(a) principal: Franco, Adriana de Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Davis, Claudia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ETD - Educação Temática Digital
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/etd/article/view/1168
• topic: Socio-historical Psychology. Self-esteem. School failure. Conscience.; Psicología socio-histórica. Autoestima. El fracaso escolar. Conciencia.; Psicologia sócio-histórica. Autoestima. Fracasso escolar. Consciência.; Psicologia; História; Educação

 This study analyses in the boundaries of a social-historical perspective the constitutive elements for self-esteem social construction in the teaching-learning process of pupils who have lived stories of failure in school. Its construction was oriented by the following points: the relations between self-esteem and learning in the last three decades and the human psychism development. We analysed through the story of life report the self-esteem construction process of two young persons who frequented acceleration classes, identifying, through measurement of theoretical abstraction from socio-historical Psychology, the way as the reality experienced in life was meant and valorized. Through biographic analysis we verified that self-esteem is associated to a broad concept and while concrete life conditions will not be altered, alterations in the conscience and, so, in the evaluation way must not be expected. Thus, self-esteem, like any human phenomenon, is produced in the concrete conditions of existence and the school must be effectively committed with the humanization of its pupils.