Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

Introductory Questions and Assignments 
1. Activity: The tree of self-esteem 
a) Draw a tree according to your imagination. It should have roots, a 
trunk and a treetop.
b) Write the following into individual parts of the tree: 
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roots: your prerequisites, abilities, talents and experience;
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trunk: factors and agents forming your personality (i.e. who and 
what has influenced you throughout your life); 
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treetop: your results and achievements. (Course of Ethical 
Education, Hradec Králové, 2008) 
c) Get back to your picture after reading this chapter and say which 
personality formation factors you have put down.
2. Why is it important to nurture self-esteem? 

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8.1 Formation of an Individual and Social Relations
 
There are many different factors shaping and forming every individual’s 
personality from his/her birth. B. Blížkovský (1994) provides a well-arranged 
and comprehensive description of such factors. They include:
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INTERNAL FACTORS: prerequisites for performing various activities 
conditioned genetically.
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EXTERNAL FACTORS: they include all external factors affecting an 
individual. 
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FUNCTIONAL, PEDAGOGICALLY UNINTENTIONAL FACTORS: factors not 
affecting personality purposefully. 
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PEDAGOGICALLY INTENTIONAL FACTORS: factors having purposeful 
and intentional effects on an individual in the sense of education.
The scheme below shows the relations between individual groups of these 
factors. 
Scheme 4: 
Overall Summary of Factors of Personality Formation 
(Blížkovský, 1994) 
 

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The scheme shows that the personality is formed both by innate (hereditary) or 
acquired factors which are designated as internal factors and by external 
factors, i.e. the surrounding environment.