Dangerous Words: Censorship in Public Schools
This essay discusses the problems raised by book challenges in the public schools and offers practical and philosophical responses to censorship. It also summarizes the legal history of book censorship in schools and libraries and provides a list of often challenged books that should be used in the classroom. We cannot protect our children from this world, which is a scary place. The only thing we can do is help them develop an inner strength to meet the inevitable challenges they will face. —Young Adult Novelist Katherine Paterson, Foerstal Interview, pp. 168-69. Imagine you are a new ninth-grade language arts teacher, fresh out of college, filled with big ideas, and inspired by the large number and wide variety of books for young adults. You assign your class a novel by well-known (and critically-acclaimed) young adult author Chris Crutcher, and everything seems to be going well. The students appear to like the book, the class discussions are lively, and you are certain you are teaching them about reading, interpretation, and argument. Best of all, students actually seem to be enjoying themselves. Then your principal calls you into her office, closes the door, and tells you there’s been a complaint by one of the parents—
The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review; and with the exception of reproducibles (identified by The English Teacher's Companion 's copyright line), which may be photocopied for classroom use. The English teacher's companion : a complete guide to classroom, curriculum, and the profession / Jim Burke. — 3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. It appears to me natural that you should tell me, as a companion, what you decide, in order that I may not be caught unprepared, for I also have to travel. Without companions, the world is a sea of stories with no one to listen.
About Children and Children-No-Longer: Collected Papers 1942-80
Preface. Acknowledgements. Introductory Memoir by Pearl King. Editor's Introduction by Margret Tonnesmann. 1939/42: A Contribution to the Problem of Sublimation and its Relation to Processes of Internalization. 1942(3)/1952(c): Notes on the Theory of the Life and Death Instincts. 1948/49: Some Notes on the Psycho-analytic Concept of Introjected Objects. 1949/50: On Counter-transference. 1951/52(a): A Contribution to the Re-evaluation of the Oedipus Complex - The Early Stages. 1952(b): Preliminary Notes on some Defence Mechanisms in Paranoid States. 1955/56: Dynamics of Transference Interpretations. 1957/59: Some Notes on Sublimation. 1958: Notes on Early Development. 1959/60: Counter-transference. 1961/62a: Contribution to Discussion of the 'Curative Factors in Psycho-analysis'. 1961/62b: Notes on the Anal Stage. 1963/64: Comments on Dr Katan's and Dr Meltzer's Papers on 'Fetishism - Some Somatic Delusions - Hypochondria'. 1964/66: Comments on the Psychoanalytic Concept of Work. 1964/69: Evolutionary Leaps and the Origin of Cruelty. 1965/66: Comments on Dr Kernberg's Paper (On Structural Derivatives of Object Relationships'). 1967/68: The Evaluation of Applicants for Psycho-analytic Training. 1969: Postscripts (To: 'Dynamics of Transference Interpretations' 1955/56). 1969/70: Opening and Closing Remarks of the Moderator (To 'Discussion of "The Non-transference Relationship in the Psychoanalytic Situation"). 1970: The Nature and Function of Interpretation. 1975a: Sacrificial Parapraxis - Failure or Achievement?. 1975/77: Further Observations on the Analyst's Cognitive Process. 1978: On the Necessity for the Analyst to be Natural with his Patient. 1979/80: About Children and Children-no-longer. Complete Bibliography of Paula Heimann's Publications. Bibliography. Index.