ABSTRACT
This chapter describes five aspects to inexorably interlinked and permeate all facets of school life, in both hidden and open curricula. They are: Self-esteem, Self-awareness, Awareness of others, Relationships, and Thinking and questioning. As with other areas studied in personal and social development, children gain more from exchanging opinions, discussing, sharing, and valuing, than from producing end-products. Children with very low self-esteem will need considerable positive input which they can believe. Encouraging self-awareness is not an activity that is contained in one piece of work but is a continuing process. Work on relationships gives children opportunity for thinking about how they behave with and react to other people, and how others do so towards them. Hearing and thinking about others' opinions on subjects such as gender, resolving conflict and arguments, how old, sick, and handicapped people are treated, whether superficial variations matter, other cultures, will help children to know their own minds, and, indeed, to have minds of their own.
