ABSTRACT
This chapter presents many case studies to look at aspects of feelings on emotional development. It examines the feelings that give rise to children getting into trouble in settings and classes and look at some of the reasons for this. Possible causes include stereotyping, expectations, alienation and failure, all of which can impact on young children's self-esteem and hence their ability to become full participants of the culture of the class or setting. The chapter looks at how feelings of inferiority, anger, helplessness, difference, otherness or inadequacy can cause children to be not able to function well in groups. The truth is that for children, being so cruelly and crudely assessed can be extremely painful. Children who are not able to get into the group become alienated and begin to feel a lack of self-worth and this is true of children who fail.
