Left-handed laterality, a problem and a solution

Authors

  • Carmen Leni Alvarez Taco Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/aletheia.2014.n2.1089

Keywords:

laterality, left-handed laterality, reading comprehensión.

Abstract

In this article, a theoretical review of educational and historical-social status of people with left-handed laterality is provided as well as formation process of laterality, which served as the basis for carrying out of a correlational study between reading comprehension and self-concept of left-handed schoolchildren in the second and third grade of primary education, likewise variables between left-handed and right-handed schoolchildren are compared. These results in this article are also presented.
The condition of left-hander has been seen, throughout human history, as something negative and even dangerous, so that all the efforts were made to change this situation in the child, contravening with this to their true nature, since left-handed laterality has a genetic basis that explains her expression. However, since left-hander approximately are equivalent to 10% of the world population, it is a human group that has received little attention, and therefore, their problems that arise in them are the least underserved, generating thus the need to develop their own adaptive strategies that allow to them a proper insertion to a social environment contrary to his nature.

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Author Biography

Carmen Leni Alvarez Taco, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Psicóloga Educativa, docente de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Docente de la Escuela de Post Grado de la Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón - UNIFÉ. Magíster en Psicología con mención en Problemas de Aprendizaje - URP y egresada de Maestría en Neurociencias – UNMSM. Especialista en el área de Problemas de Aprendizaje y de Tutoría. Psicóloga consultora y capacitadora en instituciones públicas y privadas en temas relacionados al desarrollo humano y a la educación. Miembro del Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas de la UNMSM. Investigadora en temas relacionados a la problemática educativa y psicosocial. Coautora de textos autoinstructivos sobre Psicología Educativa y Tutoría, y de artículos en revistas especializadas sobre la problemática educativa (disciplina, tutoría escolar, socialización parental, adaptación, etc.). 

Published

2014-12-30

How to Cite

Alvarez Taco, C. L. (2014). Left-handed laterality, a problem and a solution. Alétheia, 2(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.33539/aletheia.2014.n2.1089