@article{ref1,
title="Justified Self‐Esteem",
journal="Journal of Philosophy of Education",
year="2007",
author="Kristjánsson, Kristján",
volume="41",
number="2",
pages="247-261",
abstract="This paper develops a thread of argument from previous contributions to this journal by Richard Smith and Ruth Cigman about the educational salience of self-esteem. It is argued—contra Smith and Cigman—that the social science conception of self-esteem does serve a useful educational function, most importantly in undermining the inflated self-help conception of self-esteem that has commonly been transposed to the educational arena. Recent findings about a lack of significant correlation between low global self-esteem and relevant educational variables help us to focus on the type of self-esteem that does matter in the classroom: justified domain-specific self-esteem, in which the chief domains in question are the school subjects and students' self-respect. Moreover, this paper suggests that low self-confidence—which is a real problem for many students—may often be mistaken for low self-esteem.<p />",
language="",
issn="0309-8249",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00556.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00556.x"
}