Interactions Between Wellbeing and Other Purposes of Schooling in Scottish Policy

Abstract

Overwhelmingly in Scottish policy wellbeing is seen as a means through which other ends can be achieved. The ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ repeatedly asserts that health and wellbeing is a prerequisite of learning, that it supports the development of ‘positive’ dispositions and that it underpins the character attributes favoured in policy. Moreover, health and wellbeing is seen to include ‘skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work’. In Fielding’s (2007) terms, the personal is used to support functional goals.