Meanings
- UKuncountableA school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug abuse and so on.
Current laws regarding SRE which is taught as part of Personal,Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) are somewhat confusing, outdated and open to wide interpretation.
2013, S. Elley, Understanding Sex and Relationship Education, Youth and Class:, →ISBN4 more examples
The Health Education Program mission is to provide basic information about the Believing that many of the health problems found in American Indian and Why is Personal Social Health Education not compulsory in schools?
1981, J Cowley, K David, T Williams, Health education in schoolsMost primary schools are now doing a great deal to promote social, emotional and behavioural skills (SEBS) either through the whole school environment or specifically through the framework of the National Healthy School Standard or the Personal Social Health Education (PHSE) Citizenship curriculum.
2006, Tina Rae, Ruth MacConville, Teaching Peer Support for Caring and Co-operation, →ISBNIn most schools, teachers are less and less able to live on small academic islands, and will be likely to be involved in the delivery of programmes such as Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE), Citizenship and/or Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) as part of their duties as a form tutor.
2012, Peter Fleming, Becoming a Secondary School Teacher, →ISBNYet unsurprisingly, the levels of knowledge about the Holocaust held by non-history specialists was significantly lower than those who were history specialists. Only 7 per cent of those teaching Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) thought that the systematic mass murder of the Jewish people began in 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union — a fact which was known by 49 per cent of history teachers.
2014, M. Gray, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education, →ISBNSynonyms: PSHE
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug abuse and so on.
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