Assignment:
Is a positive self-identity one of the factors that contributes to cognitive development and positive school outcomes for students?
Groome & Edwardson (1996) noted that self-identity is not static but is dynamic because personal characteristics and the context, such as school, are always changing. According to Purdie, Tripcony, Boulton-Lewis, Fanshawe, & Gunstone (2000), self-identity is developed through interactions with culture/society, family, peers and school/work environments and the interpretations of those interactions.
Grome, H., & Edwardson, T. (1996). Urban Aboriginal young people and identity.
Purdie, N., Tripcony, P., Boulton-Lewis, G., Fanshawe, J., & Gunstone, A. (2000). Positive self-identity for indigenous students and its relationship to school outcomes. Queensland: Commonwealth Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs.