| Description |
xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jean E. Brown -- In Defense of the Aesthetic : Technical Rationality and Cultural Censorship / Philip M. Anderson -- Policing Thought and Speech : What Happens to Intellectual Freedom? / Jean E. Brown -- Academic Freedom : Student Rights and Faculty Responsibilities / David Moshman -- Self-Censorship and the Elementary School Teacher / Kathie Krieger Cerra -- Literature, Intellectual Freedom, and the Ecology of the Imagination / Hugh Agee -- The Censorship of Young Adult Literature / Margaret T. Sacco -- Censorship and African American Literature / Jim Knippling -- Intellectual Freedom and the Student : Using Literature to Teach Differentiation of Propaganda and Persuasion / Mary Ellen Van Camp -- Censorship and the Teaching of Composition / Allison Wilson -- Freedom and Restrictions in Language Use / Roy C. O'Donnell -- Intellectual Freedom and the Theological Dimensions of Whole Language / Ellen H. Brinkley -- Being Proactive, Not Waiting for the Censor / Jean E. Brown and Elaine C. Stephens -- The Secondary English Teacher and Censorship / John M. Kean -- Keeping Abreast in the Trenches : In-Service Censorship Education / Adrienne C. May and Paul Slayton -- What Do I Do Now? Where to Turn When You Face a Censor / Robert C. Small, Jr. and M. Jerry Weiss -- Caution, Novice Teachers : The Promotion of Reading, Writing, and Thinking Could Be Grounds for Censorship / Dee Storey -- Who's Protecting Whom and from What? / Lynda K. Kapron and Rita E. Paye -- Using Media to Combat Censorship / Margaret T. Sacco -- Slugging It Out : Censorship Issues in the Third Grade / C. Jane Hydrick -- Mind-Control Applications of the Constitutional Law of Censorship in the Educational Environment / Lief H. Carter and Daniel Carroll -- 'Hazelwood' : Results and Realities / Mel Krutz -- and The 'Hazelwood' Decision : Thought Control in the High School? Or from 'Tinker to 'Hazelwood', to Chance? / Ken Holmes |
| Summary |
A collection of twenty-two essays on what causes censorship, how it affects communities, and ways to fight it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Academic freedom -- United States.
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Educational law and legislation -- United States.
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Language arts -- United States.
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Literature -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Public schools -- Curricula -- Censorship -- United States.
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| Author |
Brown, Jean E., 1945-
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National Council of Teachers of English.
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| LC no. |
94019860 |
| ISBN |
0814136710 |
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