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| author | Burress, Lee A., Jr. |
| author_facet | Burress, Lee A., Jr. Burress, Lee A., Jr. |
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| contents | Censorship and the Public Schools. Burress, Lee A., Jr. Academic Freedom Censorship Critical Reading English Instruction Interdisciplinary Approach Literary Discrimination Literature Public Education Public Schools Reading Material Selection Sanctions School Policy Teacher Attitudes Teacher Education Teacher Participation Teacher Workshops Teaching Methods Increased militancy of teachers and instructional improvement leading to a more individualized selection of reading material may have spurred censors into increased activity. To prepare teachers to counteract censorship, further studies, such as the one by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, and interdisciplinary cooperation are needed. Sanctions against offending school systems should be considered as well as summer workshops which stress the importance of intellectual freedom. Censorship from within the schools could perhaps be eliminated if traditional assumptions about teaching literature (that students must know about an established canon of literary works) were replaced by an attempt to produce intelligent, critical readers. The existing and all too prevalent"faith in censorship" should be replaced by "faith in literature," for literature can not only prepare the student for his inevitable encounter with evil in life but also elevate his taste. (JS) |
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| publishDate | 1965 |
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| spellingShingle | Censorship and the Public Schools. Burress, Lee A., Jr. Academic Freedom Censorship Critical Reading English Instruction Interdisciplinary Approach Literary Discrimination Literature Public Education Public Schools Reading Material Selection Sanctions School Policy Teacher Attitudes Teacher Education Teacher Participation Teacher Workshops Teaching Methods Censorship and the Public Schools. Burress, Lee A., Jr. Academic Freedom Censorship Critical Reading English Instruction Interdisciplinary Approach Literary Discrimination Literature Public Education Public Schools Reading Material Selection Sanctions School Policy Teacher Attitudes Teacher Education Teacher Participation Teacher Workshops Teaching Methods Increased militancy of teachers and instructional improvement leading to a more individualized selection of reading material may have spurred censors into increased activity. To prepare teachers to counteract censorship, further studies, such as the one by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, and interdisciplinary cooperation are needed. Sanctions against offending school systems should be considered as well as summer workshops which stress the importance of intellectual freedom. Censorship from within the schools could perhaps be eliminated if traditional assumptions about teaching literature (that students must know about an established canon of literary works) were replaced by an attempt to produce intelligent, critical readers. The existing and all too prevalent"faith in censorship" should be replaced by "faith in literature," for literature can not only prepare the student for his inevitable encounter with evil in life but also elevate his taste. (JS) |
| title | Censorship and the Public Schools. |
| topic | Academic Freedom Censorship Critical Reading English Instruction Interdisciplinary Approach Literary Discrimination Literature Public Education Public Schools Reading Material Selection Sanctions School Policy Teacher Attitudes Teacher Education Teacher Participation Teacher Workshops Teaching Methods |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED024667 |