I have been an SEN teacher for little bit more than six years, also we have two children the youngest of which is nineteen, and they have friends. So I have got some experience of bringing up young people. I have also made some observations in my classes and everyday life. To me it is obvious that it is not so easy for young people to understand themselves.In Luovi Vocational College we have an ongoing project ‘Mun reitti’ in which we are searching and making personal roads towards working life. In that project some methods to develop self-understanding and self-acceptance have been used and built up. One tool to develop self-understanding and self-acceptance is to use classification of temperaments, there are many of them. I have chosen the classification of nine features of temperament, presented by Keltikangas-Järvinen (2006). The context of temperaments is primary school in that book. Lue lisää »