ACT Now Autumn 2004

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• Editor’s thoughts
Rupert Kaye

• Anita Meston
puts the case for corporal punishment

• Alison Wilson
asks: What sort of disciplinarian is God?

• Moira Kleissner
argues against corporal punishment

• Blessed are those who mourn
Brian Cranwell considers the ways in which children deal with loss and bereavement

• Working at the cutting edge
Rupert Kaye outlines the work of the SPIRE trust

• Third Culture, Third Age and the School Wall
Tim Slater reports on the work of SVN at Hope International School in Cambodia

• Halloween… harmless fun or spiritual threat?
Doug Harris gives some Christian answers

• Save sex, not safe sex
Sue Relf reports on the recent Challenge Team UK tour of 30 schools and youth clubs in England and Wales

• Sampling educational research
William K. Kay gives an overview of the kind of issues addressed by educational research

• ACT Now Readership Survey Results - part 1
Rupert Kaye analyses questionnaire responses concerning the content and title of ACT Now magazine

• Whatever Happened to Religious Education?
David Edgington reviews Penny Thompson’s book and reflects on his own experiences as an RE teacher

• Maintaining the life-work balance
Gareth Jones

• GG2W – getting God to work
Bernard Bowers and Ken Fotheringham

• ACT: in God’s hands
Andrew Marfleet

• Headteacher’s log