Censorship
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Chia-Hui Lin
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Alphabetically arranged listing of bibliographies
Categorically arranged listing of bibliographies
Internet Sites
The Censorship Page
EFF "Censorship - Academic & Educational" Archive
American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom
People for the American Way
The Freedom Forum
Banned Books Resource Page
Banned Books On-Line
Censored: Wielding the Red Pen
The Right To Read: Censorship in the School Library. ERIC Digest.
American Association of School Librarians - Intellectual Freedom Resource Guide
Citations from the ERIC Database
AN: EJ611627
AU: Szmuk,-Szilvia-E.
TI: Cringing in the Dark: Book Abuse in the Movies.
PY: 2000
SO: American-Libraries; v31 n2 p52-55 Feb 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Films-; *Satire-
AB: This satirical essay discusses the mistreatment of books as portrayed in various movies. Author questions if it would end book abuse on the silver screen, would some prudent censorship be so bad? (LRW)
AN: EJ611100
AU: Paxton,-Mark; Dickson,-Tom
TI: State Free Expression Laws and Scholastic Press Censorship.
PY: 2000
SO: Journalism-and-Mass-Communication-Educator; v55 n2 p50-59 Sum 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Freedom-of-Speech; *High-Schools; *Journalism-Education; *State-Legislation; *Student-Rights
DE: Journalism-Research; National-Surveys; School-Newspapers; Student-Publications; Teacher-Attitudes
AB: Surveys high school newspaper advisors, finding remarkably similar attitudes, in states with scholastic freedom of press laws and states without such laws, regarding scholastic press freedom, the way they exercise their duty in overseeing the newspaper, censorship and self-censorship, and controversy over newspaper content. Finds differences in advisors' reports of prior review and restraint conducted by the principal. (SR)
AN: ED444201
AU: Kopenhaver,-Lillian-Lodge; Click,-J.-William
TI: Nation's High School Newspapers: Still Widely Censored.
PY: 2000
NT: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (83rd, Phoenix, AZ, August 9-12, 2000).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC02 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED444201
DE: *Censorship-; *Freedom-of-Speech; *High-Schools; *School-Newspapers; *Student-Publications
DE: Administrator-Attitudes; Administrator-Role; Journalism-Research; National-Surveys; Teacher-Attitudes
AB: It has been slightly more than a decade since the 1988 Supreme Court "Hazelwood" decision which reaffirmed the right of high school principals to censor stories in the student newspaper. That ruling caused advisers, principals, and students to reevaluate the operation of those publications. This study investigates press freedom in high school newspapers at the end of the century. Usable surveys on press freedom in the schools were received from 138 advisers and 84 school principals in 47 states. The findings paint a clear picture of a high school student press that is not free, that is controlled mostly by advisers, but also by principals, and that views editing of the paper by the faculty adviser as the norm. (Contains 19 references and 3 tables of data.) Author/RS)
AN: ED444200
AU: Paxton,-Mark
TI: Freedom of Expression Laws and the College Press: Lessons Learned from the High Schools.
PY: 2000
NT: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (83rd, Phoenix, AZ, August 9-12, 2000).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED444200
DE: *Censorship-; *Court-Litigation; *Freedom-of-Speech; *School-Newspapers; *State-Legislation; *Student-Publications
DE: High-Schools; Higher-Education
AB: This paper examines two recent attempts to enact state freedom of expression laws for public college and university students and discusses the prospects for such laws in the context of state scholastic freedom of expression laws covering high school journalists in six states. It examines the case of Kincaid v. Gibson, which decided that restriction on school-sponsored expression expounded in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier applies to college and university expression. Based on research questioning the effectiveness of those state scholastic freedom of expression laws, it appears to be unlikely that similar laws protecting the First Amendment rights of college students will be as effective as proponents might expect. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/RS)
AN: ED444192
AU: Seim,-Roland
TI: Between Freedom of the Media and Intrusions of Censorship in German Popular Culture.
PY: 2000
AV: www.geocities.com/zensur2000/.
NT: Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference (7th, Toronto, Canada, July 31-August 4, 2000).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED444192
DE: *Censorship-; *Freedom-of-Speech; *Mass-Media; *Popular-Culture
DE: Cultural-Context; Foreign-Countries; Social-Problems
AB: This paper gives an overview of censorship in Germany. The paper recognizes that between the human right and constitutional law of freedom of speech, art, and press on the one side and the social life of man which must be ensured on the other side, the right of free expression can clash with human dignity. It discusses which books, films, records, etc. are totally banned in Germany, and the reasons for this occurrence, noting that the main ground for book banning is
Nazi propaganda. It also states that the restrictions on the publication and distribution of "suspicious material" in every genre of popular culture demonstrate the desire and the different and often subtle forms of governmental, religious, and social censorship. The book then suggests three books which focus on the media in Germany for further information about the structure, conditions, and function of censorship. (NKA)
AN: EJ609522
AU: Simmons,-John-S.
TI: Middle Schoolers and the Right To Read.
PY: 2000
SO: ALAN-Review; v27 n3 p45-49 Spr-Sum 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Language-Arts; *Middle-School-Students
DE: Middle-Schools; Parent-School-Relationship; Teacher-Role
AB: Considers how the 1990s have seen a geometric increase in the incidences of censorship attempts in middle school materials, choices, and teachers' creative instructional approaches. Discusses expanding the middle school canon, anti-censorship efforts in the 1990s, and censorship activity from 1988 to 1997. Provides resources for middle school teachers who wish to pursue the banned books issue further. (SC)
AN: EJ609520
AU: Brown,-Jean-E.
TI: Creating a Censorship Simulation.
PY: 2000
SO: ALAN-Review; v27 n3 p27-30 Spr-Sum 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Teacher-Education
DE: Class-Activities; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Higher-Education; Program-Development; Student-Role
AB: Describes the development of a program to structure and implement a censorship simulation in a graduate-level teacher education course. Presents an outline of the censorship simulation with steps as follows: determining goals and objectives; establishing a rationale; creating a setting; providing the situation; identifying student roles; creating the initial complaint, developing a plan for action; structuring experiences; and determining assessment. (SC)
AN: EJ609483
AU: Proudfoot,-Harry
TI: Massachusetts Adviser Urges a National Student Press Rights Drive.
PY: 2000
SO: Quill-and-Scroll; v74 n3 p11-13 Feb-Mar 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Freedom-of-Speech; *Journalism-; *Journalism-Education; *Legal-Problems; *Social-Change
DE: Educational-Change; High-School-Students; High-Schools
AB: Argues that students are being trained to believe that censorship of the press is a good idea. Shows, using two examples dealing with teenage pregnancies and gangs, how students can bring about real change in their school climate through their school newspaper--but only if it is a free press controlled by students, not the administration. (SR)
AN: EJ605246
AU: Scales,-Pat
TI: Studying the First Amendment.
PY: 2000
SO: Knowledge-Quest; v28 n3 p28-30 Jan-Feb 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Library-Materials; *Public-Libraries; *School-Libraries
DE: Curriculum-Development; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Intellectual-Freedom; Learning-Activities; Library-Role
AB: Discussion of censorship against books in public and school libraries focuses on intellectual freedom; First Amendment rights; and curriculum development to include lessons on the First Amendment. Offers suggestions for activities focusing on censorship and banned books. (LRW)
AN: EJ605245
AU: Dorrell,-Larry-D.; Busch,-Anne
TI: Censorship in Schools: The Impact of Conservative Christian Pressure Groups.
PY: 2000
SO: Knowledge-Quest; v28 n3 p24-26 Jan-Feb 2000
DE: *Censorship-; *Christianity-; *Conservatism-
DE: Curriculum-Development; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Library-Material-Selection; Moral-Issues; School-Libraries; Textbook-Selection
AB: Presents an historical overview of the rise of conservative pressure groups after 1980 and their association with an increase in censorship activities in schools. Discusses the influence of the Reagan administration; library materials selection; textbook selection; secular humanism; and trying to affect the curriculum rather than targeting specific titles. (Author/LRW)
AN: EJ603136
AU: Mitoraj,-Suzanne-O.
TI: "Deliverance": The Anatomy of a Challenge.
PY: 2000
SO: English-Journal; v89 n4 p105-11 Mar 2000
NT: Theme: Reading and Writing Together.
DE: *Censorship-; *English-Instruction; *Literature-Appreciation; *Parent-School-Relationship; *Politics-of-Education; *Reading-Material-Selection
DE: High-Schools; Moral-Issues; Parent-Grievances
AB: Describes how an English department and a school district responded to a parental challenge to the use of James Dickey's novel "Deliverance" in a senior English class. Offers a 2-month chronology of events, beginning with a letter of complaint to the principal, continuing through responses, meetings, media coverage, and the meeting and vote of the board of education. (SR)
AN: EJ601776
AU: Reisberg,-Leo
TI: Student Press at Black Colleges Faces "a New Wave of Censorship."
PY: 2000
SO: Chronicle-of-Higher-Education; v46 n26 pA47-A48 Mar 3, 2000
DE: *Black-Colleges; *Censorship-; *College-Administration; *Newspapers-; *Student-Publications
DE: Educational-Trends; Higher-Education; Student-Attitudes; Trend-Analysis
AB: Examines the special pressures felt by student newspapers at black colleges to portray their institutions and administrations in a positive light. Some students report self-censorship of publications is necessary for publication survival; however, administrators state that although unhappy with some media, they do not condone censorship of campus newspapers. Notes the declining role of student newspapers at black colleges. (DB)
AN: EJ601034
AU: Sherwood,-Steve
TI: Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves: Constraining Conversations in the Writing Center.
PY: 1999
SO: Writing-Center-Journal; v20 n1 p51-60 Fall-Win 1999
DE: *Censorship-; *Freedom-of-Speech; *Writing-Instruction
DE: Higher-Education; Liberalism-; Social-Values
AB: Argues that writing instructors must balance the harm students' words might do to themselves and their audiences against respect for their right to hold and express aberrant opinions. Suggests the scales be weighted toward the students' best interests and away from the teachers' political or ideological agendas. (NH)
AN: EJ599660
AU: Peck,-Richard
TI: The Many Faces of Censorship.
PY: 1999
SO: Voice-of-Youth-Advocates; v22 n4 p242-43 Oct 1999
DE: *Adolescent-Literature; *Censorship-; *Parent-Role; *Teacher-Role
DE: Adolescents-; History-; Parent-Responsibility; Parent-Student-Relationship; >Parent-Teacher-Conferences; Young-Adults; Youth-
AB: An author of 26 books for young adults writes about different forms of censorship including rewriting history textbooks and parents who censor themselves by not staying in touch with their children. Citing Cormier's "The Chocolate War" and Golding's "Lord of the Flies" and making reference to the Colulmbine school murders, he illustrates the dangers of youth empowerment when adult authority is completely handed over. (AEF)
AN: EJ598833
AU: Doecke,-Brenton; Hayes,-Terry
TI: Good Dreams/Bad Dreams: Text Selection and Censorship in Australia.
PY: 1999
SO: English-in-Education; v33 n3 p31-42 Aut 1999
NT: Paper from the International Federation for the Teaching of English Conference on the "Power of Language" (July, 1999, Unitd Kingdom).
DE: *Censorship-; *English-Curriculum; *Literature-; *Textbook-Selection
DE: Foreign-Countries; Mass-Media; Secondary-Education
AB: Aims to conceptualize issues of text selection and censorship in different terms from those in which it has been constructed by Australian media. Asks how texts get used in classrooms and about the nature of classrooms as sites for negotiating issues of meaning and value. Argues for a culturally inclusive curriculum that is responsive to students' attitudes and values. (NH)
AN: ED440408
AU: Doecke,-Brenton; Hayes,-Terry
TI: Good Dreams/Bad Dreams: Text Selection and Censorship in Australia.
PY: 1999
AV: For full text: http://www.nyu.edu/education/teachlearn/ifte/doecke2.htm.
NT: Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (Warwick, England, July 7-10, 1999).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED440408
DE: *Censorship-; *Reading-Material-Selection
DE: English-Curriculum; English-Instruction; Foreign-Countries; Literacy-; Literature-; Popular-Culture; Secondary-Education; Student-Attitudes
AB: This paper looks at recent debates about text selection and censorship in Australia. Its aim is to point beyond the terms in which the censorship debate has been conducted in the mass media, and to prompt reflection on how texts are used in English classrooms. The paper raises questions of language and cultural identity in secondary English teaching, arguing the need for a culturally inclusive curriculum that is responsive to the attitudes and values of secondary school students. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/RS)
AN: EJ596851
AU: Pinsdorf,-Marion-K.
TI: Woodrow Wilson's Public Relations: Wag the Hun.
PY: 1999
SO: Public-Relations-Review; v25 n3 p309-30 Fall 1999
DE: *Censorship-; *Persuasive-Discourse; *Political-Influences; *Public-Relations; *World-War-I
AB: Considers how during World War I populations were mobilized, "taught" to hate and fight the evil enemy, responded emotionally to atrocities, even if invented or exaggerated. Discusses how George Creel, leader of the Committee of Public Information, used every means of communications available to conscript opinion, to control, centralize, and censor all information. (SC)
AN: EJ596848
AU: Burniske,-R.-W.
TI: Iban on the Infobahn: Can We Integrate the Global Village without Annihilating Cultures?
PY: 1999
SO: English-Journal; v89 n2 p131-35 Nov 1999
NT: Theme: Our Love Affair with Literature.
DE: *Censorship-; *Internet-
DE: Classroom-Techniques; Cultural-Pluralism; Foreign-Countries; International-Education; Secondary-Education
AB: Gives examples of successfully exploring the pedagogical possibilities of the Internet in both breaking down the walls of censorship and engaging students in the dialectics necessary to understand their world. Cautions that technological integration of the "global village" must be carefully handled in order to avoid repression of alternative voices and/or cultural annihilation. (NH)
AN: EJ596838
AU: Agee,-Jane
TI: "There It Was, That One Sex Scene": English Teachers on Censorship.
PY: 1999
SO: English-Journal; v89 n2 p61-69 Nov 1999
NT: Theme: Our Love Affair with Literature.
DE: *Censorship-; *Cultural-Pluralism; *Curriculum-Design; *English-Curriculum; *Reading-Material-Selection; *Teaching-Methods
DE: English-Teachers; High-Schools; Instructional-Materials; Racial-Relations
AB: Presents the perspectives of five experienced high school English teachers on how the threat of censorship influences their selection of literary works and their teaching methods. Claims teachers need strong support from administrators and professional organizations in order to present a culturally diverse literature curriculum. (NH)
AN: EJ596837
AU: Schulten,-Katherine
TI: "Huck Finn": Born to Trouble.
PY: 1999
SO: English-Journal; v89 n2 p55-59 Nov 1999
NT: Theme: Our Love Affair with Literature.
DE: *Censorship-; *Curriculum-Design; *Curriculum-Development; *Political-Correctness
DE: Controversial-Issues-Course-Content; Diversity-Student; Public-Television; Racial-Relations; Secondary-Education
AB: Describes the process by which Cherry Hill, New Jersey teachers, in cooperation with parents, administrators, and other professionals, developed a curriculum for teaching "Huckleberry Finn" that successfully explores the controversial issues by embedding traditional teaching in a rich, historical, and cultural framework. Provides the "Huck Finn in Context" curriculum. (NH)
AN: ED436763
TI: Guidelines for Selection of Materials in English Language Arts Programs. An NCTE Standards Document.
CS: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
PY: 1999
AV: National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (free, stock #19778).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED436763
DE: *Censorship-; *English-Curriculum; *English-Instruction; *Media-Selection
DE: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Guidelines-; Public-Schools
AB: In recent years many teachers, English departments, and school districts have taken steps towards averting censorship and strengthening the professional basis for their English language arts programs. This paper states that development of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) guidelines for selection of materials in English programs was itself the result of a careful process which began when NCTE sent out a call to schools and districts all over the country for guidelines already in use and ended when a joint committee developed the NCTE guidelines. The guidelines are divided into the following sections: Scope of the Policy for Selection of Instructional Materials; Criteria (with subsections on Connection to Educational Objectives, and Relevance to Student Needs); Procedures for Selection of Instructional Materials (with subsections on Responsibility for Selection, and Selection Procedures); and Opportunity for Informal Selection. Contains 10 resources. (NKA)
AN: EJ594882
AU: McBrien,-J.-Lynn
TI: New Texts, New Tools: An Argument for Media Literacy.
PY: 1999
SO: Educational-Leadership; v57 n2 p76-79 Oct 1999
DE: *Censorship-; *Critical-Thinking; *Critical-Viewing; *Mass-Media; *Student-Reaction
DE: Advertising-; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Student-Empowerment; Television-Commercials; Video-Games; Violence-
AB: Adults cannot adequately prevent their children from observing media messages. Students are actually safer if they are educated about analyzing and assessing unsavory messages for themselves. Appropriate media-literacy pedagogy involves five essential elements: background, tools, deconstruction of media techniques, product evaluation, and original construction. (MLH)
AN: EJ607321
TI: Update on the Courts.
PY: 1998
SO: Update-on-Law-Related-Education; v22 n1 p28-30 Win 1998
NT: Coincides with the teaching strategy on page 41.
DE: *Censorship-; *Constitutional-Law; *Court-Litigation; *Freedom-of-Speech; *Government-Role
DE: Artists-; Debate-; Grants-; Mass-Media-Role; Political-Candidates; Presidents-of-the-United-States; Secondary-Education; Television-
AB: Summarizes three case studies concerning the first amendment that address: (1) whether a state-owned television station can exclude a candidate from a televised debate; (2) whether decency conditions placed on grant projects by the National Endowment of the Arts censors freedom of expression; and (3) the constitutionality of the Line Item Veto Act. (CMK)
AN: EJ607316
TI: First Amendment Reflections.
PY: 1998
SO: Update-on-Law-Related-Education; v22 n1 p6-7 Win 1998
DE: *Censorship-; *Childhood-Needs; *Freedom-of-Speech; *Government-Role; *Internet-; *Public-Opinion
DE: Debate-; Democracy-; Secondary-Education; Social-Studies; Teaching-Methods
AB: Offers seven reflections on the First Amendment and related issues by attorneys, a professor, project directors, and a university president. Highlights an activity where pairs of students prepare either a pro or con argument for each of the seven excerpts and then participate in a debate. (CMK)
AN: ED437666
TI: Rationales for Challenged Books. [CD-ROM].
CS: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
PY: 1998
AV: International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139 ($39.95). Web site: http://www.reading.org.
NT: Prepared in partnership with the International Reading Association. Version 1.0.
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DE: *Adolescent-Literature; *Censorship-; *Childrens-Literature
DE: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Films-; Optical-Disks; Reading-Material-Selection
AB: This CD-ROM presents a collection of over 200 rationales for over 170 works (mainly novels but a few films) for use by teachers combating censorship. Some rationales on the disc are from published sources; others are student papers. Although the materials in the collection range from kindergarten through grade 12, the emphasis is on the middle school and senior high levels. While the rationales are not all alike in content or format, they frequently include information
about the intended audience for a work; a brief plot summary; potential objections to the work and advice on how to address such objections; and lists of reviews of the work and awards, if any, it has received. Rationales cover titles such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Black Boy," "The Catcher in the Rye," "The Giver," "Heather Has Two Mommies," "Lord of the Flies," "Of Mice and Men," "The Scarlet Letter," and "The Year Without Michael." (RS)
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Publisher: American Library Association
Year: 2002 6th ed.
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Year: 2001
Publisher: American Library Association
Title: Banned books 2001 resource book
Author: Doyle, Robert P.
Year: 2001
Publisher: American Library Association
Title: V-chip and TV ratings: helping parents supervise their children's television viewing
Author: Smith, Marcia S.
Year: 2001
Publisher: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Title: Libraries and the Internet are filters needed to block pornography?
Author: Jost, Kenneth.
Year: 2001
Publisher: Congressional Quarterly
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Year: 2001
Publisher: Island Trees Public Library
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Author: Maxwell, Nancy Kalikow.
Year: 2001
Publisher: ALA TechSource
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Authors: Phillips, Peter. ; Chomsky, Noam. ; Tomorrow, Tom
Year: 2001 1 st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press ; Publishers Group West
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Authors: Nelson, Ken. ; Jacobs, Andrew; Gardner, Carrie. ; Wessells, Michael B. ; Rusthoven,
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Year: 2001
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Authors: Holsopple, Jerry L. ; Gerbner, George.
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