Drugs, Camera, Action! A Video Approach to PSE

Abstract

A seven‐year partnership between a Norfolk high school and an NHS drug treatment agency has raised awareness about drugs, alcohol, HIV and AIDS among all sections of the school community. In an innovative approach to drug education, factual lessons have been augmented in Personal and Social Education (PSE) by videoed discussions touching on a range of issues, filmed at Year 9 and played back at Year 11. The sessions have had a powerful effect and helped give participants greater awareness of the transition from youth to adulthood. The insights gained and the techniques used may well have relevance to other aspects of a PSE programme.

Jewish Environmentalism in the United States: Achievements, Characteristics, and Challenges

“…The Bible, so White charged, commanded humanity to "rule and master the Earth" (Gen. 1:28) and biblical anthropocentrism generated the exploitative attitudes that caused the damage humans have inflicted on the natural world. White's essay generated a spirited debate as Christian and Jewish scholars and theologians rose to defend the Bible, reading it anew through the lens of the environmental crisis (e.g., Fretheim 1987;Granberg-Michaelson 1987;Cooper 1990;McDonagh 1990;Rasmussen and Birch 1988;Rasmussen 1996;Northcott 1996;Hiebert 1996;Habel 2000;2000-02;Berry 2000;Bouma-Prediger 2001;Conradie 2004;Deane-Drummond 2004;Bauckham 2010;Horrell 2014). Despite the ongoing debate about White's thesis (LeVasseur and Peterson 2017), his critique indisputably stimulated the rise of religious environmentalism among Christians and Jews and later among other faiths.…”