Some Responsibilities of the English Teacher Facing Censorship.

Autor/in	Donelson, Kenneth L.
Institution	Arizona English Teachers Association, Tempe.
Titel	Some Responsibilities of the English Teacher Facing Censorship.
Quelle	11 (1969) 2, S.13-22 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Freedom; Censorship; Community Support; English Departments; Literature; School Community Relationship; Teacher Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Freiheit; Politische Zensur; Literatur; Lehrverpflichtung
Abstract	The "inevitable and ubiquitous nature of censorship" forces teachers of literature to accept seven responsibilities: (1) to know literature of all types and all periods extremely well and to know what constitutes literary merit and adolescent appeal in any work; (2) to understand the implications of arguments for and against censorship; (3) to build an English department capable of fighting censorship through both discussion of works likely to be attacked and implementation of a formal policy for handling any attempted censorship; (4) to prepare a rationale and defense for any work to be taught in any class by any teacher; (5) to communicate to the public and to students what is going on in English class and why it is going on; (6) to woo actively community supporters of academic freedom and to gain support before censorship strikes; and (7) to recognize that the censor may sometimes have a legitimate complaint and to recognize that not all English teachers are defensible, either for what they teach or for how they teach it. (Author/MF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01