tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post110649510644969092..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Self-EsteemStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1107194356635770592005-01-31T11:59:00.000-06:002005-01-31T11:59:00.000-06:00You don't seem to have read the article, or even t...You don't seem to have read the article, or even the bits I quoted. The authors were not conducting a "little study" on their own. Rather, they were reviewing the <I>entire literature</I> of studies on self-esteem. What they found was that study after study failed to show the supposed positive value for self-esteem.Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1107058671921612862005-01-29T22:17:00.000-06:002005-01-29T22:17:00.000-06:00I had seen the media do a big hoopla about this se...I had seen the media do a big hoopla about this self-esteem study, thinking, "there we go again..." I would like to remind people that the media loves to take one single little study in a very complex field and throw it out in a sensationalist, biased way. You don´t know how this study was designed, and you don´t even know if there are a million other studies that show this is not so. You don´t even know what the researchers here defined as self-esteem, and what exactly were they measuring and how.<br /><br />Self-esteem is a necessary psychological process for mental health and happiness. I don´t want to make this a treatise on the subject, but it´s just ridiculous to say "because some students will less self esteem have achieved something, self-esteem is a human throw away thing." This study must make all the people responsible for destroying self-esteem in youngsters extatic, they now must feel less guilty, and less stupid. And aren´t there a lot of these kinds of people?<br /><br />Don´t buy it, self-esteem is fundamental for *life*. It´s a fundamental role of any teacher to "fuel" it in their students.Alessandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471481963237568388noreply@blogger.com