The Tennessee Judicial Decision on Religion and Reading Basal Series: An Update and Implications for Reading Educators.

Autor/in	Balajthy, Ernest
Titel	The Tennessee Judicial Decision on Religion and Reading Basal Series: An Update and Implications for Reading Educators.
Quelle	(1987), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Freedom; Basal Reading; Bias; Censorship; Christianity; Civil Rights; Content Area Reading; Court Litigation; Educational Responsibility; Elementary Education; Intellectual Freedom; Minority Group Children; Nontraditional Education; Parent Attitudes; Parent Grievances; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Reading Instruction; Reading Material Selection; Reading Materials; Reading Skills; Religious Discrimination; State Church Separation; Textbook Content; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Freiheit; Lesetraining; Politische Zensur; Christentum; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sinnerfassendes Lesen; Rechtsstreit; Erziehungsverantwortung; Elementarunterricht; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Elternverhalten; Beschwerde; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Leseunterricht; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Kirche-Staat-Beziehung; Lehrbuchtext
Abstract	Judge Thomas Hull's October 1986 decision in the "Mozert et al. versus Hawkins County Public Schools" provoked concern from a number of educators who felt that the plaintiffs, several Fundamentalist parents, who were favored in the decision, were attempting to force their religious principles on non-Fundamentalists. Judge Hull's decision, based on the notion that the children involved were not being provided a free public education, allowed them to "opt out" of reading class and be taught from alternate texts at home. Educators responded to the decision by saying that it opened the way for mass censorship, that it was impractical for schools to try to accommodate every minority opinion in every reading program, and that the children would become culturally illiterate with such omissions in their education. It is stated that such opinions are flawed in that they fail to consider the fact that (1) the basal readers in question were not removed from the classroom, (2) several schools have incorporated alternative reading materials without great inconvenience, and (3) the public's notions of education are based on exposing children to a wide variety of ideas, and the Fundamentalists' complaint arose largely out of the exclusion of Christian values rather than the inclusion of other values. It behooves educators who believe in a liberal democracy to attempt to accommodate minority viewpoints, because everyone is part of a minority in one way or another. (Thirteen references are included.) (JC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC