Building Character: weighing the differences between right and wrong.What is right and what is wrong? How do we know what are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors? The films selected for review in the first section of this column provide thought-provoking scenarios and segments on the importance of learning right from wrong, as well as on what is considered acceptable behaviors. Viewing these films hopefully will help provide theoretical as well as practical material for thought and action. The second section of the column features reviews of three general audiences DVDs of importance. Film versions of The Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies showing man’s consciousness and fear of dying. [Br. Lit.: Lord of the Flies] See : Death offer classic film studies on bullying Bullying Chowne, Parson Stoyle terrorizes parish; kidnaps children. [Br. Lit.: The Maid of Sker, Walsh Modern, 94–95] Claypole, Noah bully; becomes thief in Fagin’s gang. [Br. Lit. and the development of values. From Iran comes the story of two courageous nomadic See nomadic computing. teachers, in a wartorn environment, who literally bear their classrooms on their backs (in the form of oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. blackboards). Guest reviewer re·view·er n. One who reviews, especially one who writes critical reviews, as for a newspaper or magazine. reviewer Noun a person who writes reviews of books, films, etc. Noun 1. Bruce Herzig, Assistant Editor of Childhood Education, reviews a French documentary about an exemplary schoolteacher and his gift to children, using the school and classroom as a working place for the development of values. |
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