ABSTRACT
In this final chapter Simon Catling illustrates a number of different values which children might acquire through topic work. Many of these are unintended and can be considered as part of the ‘hidden’ curriculum. They are, therefore, values to which we need to be particularly alert. These include the values attached to the individual child as a learner, as well as the value that a child might attach to other children as sources of learning. Furthermore, there are the values and attitudes that children might acquire about the validity of certain ways of learning through the choice of resources used, as well as the substantive content which the children will learn by means of the ‘evidence’ which those resources provide.
