What's new - June 2011

Welcome to ‘What’s new’ on the Values Education website for June 2011.

Events

4 June 2011 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June 2011 – World Environment Day
8 June 2011 – World Oceans Day
12 June 2011 – World Day Against Child Labour
14 June 2011 – World Blood Donor Day
17 June 2011 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
19 June 2011 to 25 June 2011 – Refugee Week
26 June 2011 – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 

Values Cluster Projects

Values in Action Activities
The Values in Action Schools Project generated many useful ideas and activities for implementing values education in school communities. Values in Action activities will provide a selection of activities from different clusters, in context. The first of these is:

• An introduction to values: The Tasmanian Values Cluster

Resources

Articles
A new article:  

• 'A ROARing Success', Iona Whishaw

Links
New web links:

• UNESCO: Inclusive education
• National Safe Schools Framework 
• Global Peace Index

Reviews
A new book:

• International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing by Terence Lovat, Ron Toomey, Neville Clement (Eds)