Self-transformation in the community of inquiry 1 , 2

In this chapter Ann Margaret Sharp explains that the process of esteeming (including self-esteem) relies on criteria, norms, standards and ideals that must, themselves, be subjected to public inquiry informed by the normative disciplines of logic, ethics and aesthetics. She concludes that without the opportunity of engaging in public philosophical inquiry, young people are denied the means to make worthy judgments about the self and to engage in the process of self-correction and self-transformation.