DESIGN OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OF INTELLIGENCE TO BUILD HEALTHY SELF ESTEEM FOR CHILDREN AGED 6-9 YEARS

• Main Author: Bunga Rosova, Ocktania
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/76319
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Self-esteem is an assessment of oneself as a valuable, capable, and competent individual related to how individuals form themselves. Elementary school age, namely 6–12 years, is a potential age in the development of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects of children, one of which is self-esteem. Self-esteem that is too high creates an arrogant attitude where children feel superior and cannot accept differences. Likewise, children with low self-esteem who evaluate themselves in a negative light are not used to feeling differences as a natural thing. At this age, children are in the stage of industrial versus inferiority psychosocial development, in which, in their social environment, they try to avoid feelings of inferiority by enthusiastically and competitively directing their energy to mastering knowledge and intellectual skills, followed by an inferior period where they feel incompetent and unproductive due to their inability to achieve targets. attempted or as a result of comparing oneself with others. This is because as the child's environment becomes more complex, self-esteem is not only formed by parents but also begins to require acceptance from the social environment, such as teachers and peers. So, in an effort to build healthy self-esteem, children who are already aware of differences in abilities with other people need to know that there is also a diversity of abilities that each child has. Elementary school children, especially the lower grades aged 6–9 years, are the most appropriate to be educated about this. The research aims to build healthy self-esteem by educating children about the diversity of intelligence in children aged 6–9 years so that they can appreciate differences in abilities among others and are able to see themselves as valuable individuals. Using qualitative methods with data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and literature studies. The product is used as a medium that is expected to be able to convey education about the diversity of intelligence in an appropriate way for children aged 6–9 years.