Thursday, September 24. 2020

 Today's classes are: 

9:15 - 11:50 D Block Social and Environmental Sciences

12:30 - 3:05 A Block Criminology 

D Block Social and Environmental Sciences - With Young, you'll have time to look at into the spectrum of EVS, from ecocentric through anthropocentric to technocentric value systems. Remember, an EVS is a worldview or paradigm that shapes the way an individual, or group of people, perceives and evaluates environmental issues, influenced by cultural, religious, economic and socio-political contexts. I will have some questions for you to answer to finish your introductory package:

1. What is intrinsic value?
2. How can you attach value to the biosphere?
3. Which EVSs attribute intrinsic value?
4. Describe and evaluate how each of the three "pure" EVSs would feel about the intrinsic value of an old growth forest
5. What "shade" of green are you (dark, light, bright)?

You can get some help from here
Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

Environmental Systems (look at pg 1-16)

After, if there's time, you may work on your water advocacy campaign posters in the class...remember water not only as a Human Right but "Water for All"

With Benton you will continue to investigate your samples of water from Towhee Creek to understand the microscopic systems of life that exist in the water itself or maybe not, I don't really know. But I'm sure you'll do some sciency stuff that will be about the environment and will be awesome, just like Benton. 

A Block Criminology - Okay so today we start with our first quiz in the course and it deals with our introduction to crim (theories, deviance, and criminal law) along with trends in crime (specific to offenses as opposed to victims), the chronic offender and nature/nurture. You may use the note sheet I gave you and I am certain that you'll do fine. 

Now that you know about trends in crime, victimology and what violence is in relation to age, gender and class, try to answer the following:

Do you think that school is one of the most dangerous places for young people in society today?

Broaden your scope a little and do not necessarily focus on Vanier for this question. Think about other Canadian, British Columbian or Comox Valley high schools and generalize your response a bit. Don't forget that you'll need to find a story to back up your point of view here (either one about how little crime exists in schools or one that demonstrates that schools are somewhat dangerous places). More info to help:


RCMP: School Violence
Stats Can Youth Offending in Canada

More than 1 in 7 girls say they were sexually assaulted by another student 

'They're not taking it seriously': Under-reporting of student violence persists

'I thought he was dead': CBC survey reveals 4 in 10 boys are physically assaulted at school

Youth Crime In Canada which states:

• In 2006, 1 in 10 youth crimes were committed on school property
• Crimes at school include bullying and violence
• Assaults are particularly common representing about 30% of all violations committed by youth on school property. Uttering threats constituted another 8%
• Nearly 20% of crimes committed at school were drug offences, whereas 5% of youth crimes committed elsewhere were drug-related. Youth drug offences taking place on school grounds usually involved the possession (78%) or trafficking of cannabis (10%)

For the last portion of the class we'll get into groups to create a poster about school violence...both "awareness" to better understand issues such as bullying, intimidation, harassment, discrimination, racism, sexism and homophobia, and other worrisome behaviours and "engagement" to encourage  positive social behaviours that contribute to the school community, solve problems in peaceful ways, value diversity to stop violence, strengthen relationships and restore a sense of belonging which promote school safety.

Hmmm...remember we talked about school liaison officers? Seems like the VSB (Vancouver School Board) is considering altering or removing the VPD (Vancouver Police Department) liaison officers. Check out the Vancouver Sun article here.