The document discusses the importance of understanding the self within the general education curriculum, emphasizing its role in personal identity and goal identification. It highlights how gaining self-awareness can enhance behavior and skills, supported by insights from philosophical figures like Aristotle and Carl Jung. Additionally, it distinguishes between self-identity, which encompasses a person's past and future selves, and self-concept, which involves factual knowledge about oneself influenced by external perceptions.

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Why is it important in the curriculum?

2. Why study?
• Understanding the self is one of core courses under the New General
Education Curriculum (CMO 20 s.2013)
• It covers the nature of identity, factors and forces that affects total self.
• This course is teaching students to accept their total self to identify their
most immediate and long term goals

3. How does it help me?
• It will help you analyze your attitude, behavior, personality, and your whole
personal identity.
• It will help you enhance your skills and increase your commitment in
demonstrating proper behavior at home, school, public places, in other
venues and situation
• To find meaning about life

4. Know yourself! Why is it important?
• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom- Aristotle
• To find yourself, think of yourself – Socrates
• To thine own self be true- Shakespeare
• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. –Carl Jung
• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.- Cummings

6. What is Self Identity?
• It is composed of relatively permanent self-assessment, such as personality
attributes, knowledge of one’s skills and abilities, one’s occupation and
hobbies, and awareness of one's physical attributes
• The self identity is not restricted to the present. It includes past selves and
future selves.

7. What is Self Concept?
• It is simply the information side of things where you know facts about what
you are like.
• They can be influenced not only by observing one’s own self and behavior
objectively, but also by observing the reactions that other people have to you
and your behavior, or imagining what other people might think of you, or
what you would think of yourself if you saw yourself from outside.

8. THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY FACTORS