Abstract

PENAFIEL, Kelly Jessie Queiroz  and  LIMA, Vanessa Aparecida Alves de. The representations of self and the moral feeling: a research about school failure. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.52, pp.365-381. ISSN 1981-8106.  https://doi.org/10.18675/1981-8106.vol26.n52.p365-381.

In this paper is discussed the representations of self and the feeling of shame before the school failures situations experienced for teenagers attending the ninth year of elementary school. We conducted this survey by a clinical interview with 49 teenagers, boys, and girls, in six public schools in the municipality of Rolim de Moura, Rondônia, to understand relevant aspects of the representations that make themselves before their failure in school. This research has as a theoretical landmark, the studies of Piaget on children's moral development, the contemporary surveys from the perspective of Moral Psychology. The results indicate that subjects feel guilty for the failure, but in some cases, they do not feel ashamed and, in others cases, despite the fact that they believe it, it does not imply a negative representation of self. Finally, we noted that the data from our surveys endorse the ideas that the search of positive representations of self is one of the fundamental motivations of human behavior.

Keywords : Moral Psychology; Representations of self; Shame; School Failure.

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