Being Valued

The idea that it is important to make pupils feel valued is central to much of what we do in pastoral care and personal and social education. But like many key concepts, we tend to take this one for granted and what it means to value someone is not usually something we reflect on in detail. In this paper John Wilson does just this by subjecting the notion of valuing to analysis. He argues that it is an idea which is more complex than is often recognized in the way we use it in schools.