https://www.futurity.org/book-banning-banned-books-2768792-2/
"Efforts to ban books in the United States have surged at a rate the American
Library Association calls “unprecedented,” with attempts currently at their
highest level since the organization began tracking them 20 years ago.
A few high-profile examples: In January, a Tennessee county school board voted
unanimously to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning book
Maus from eighth grade
lessons on the Holocaust. Last fall, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin made book
banning a focal point of his successful 2021 campaign, targeting Toni
Morrison’s novel
Beloved. And Texas legislators recently passed HB 3979,
which bans the teaching of any materials that could result in “discomfort,
guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the
individual’s race or sex.”
Jennifer Wolf, a senior lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Education
(GSE), teaches courses in young adult literature, including a class on the
genre for undergraduates interested in teaching or working with adolescents.
She is also the director of undergraduate programs at the GSE (UP@GSE), which
hosted a teach-in on book banning this spring.
Here, Wolf discusses how approaches to book banning have changed over the
years, teachers’ responsibility to students when challenges arise, and the
now-prominent role parents play in pushing for books to be removed from
schools"
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
