The Impacts of Censorship, Volume 2 - (Paperback)

About the Book

In today's political reality, classrooms have become the sites of censorship and attacks on students' right to read. The Impacts of Censorship, Volume 2 offers research that centers teachers working in a climate of book challenges and bans, censorship, restrictive legislation, angry parents, and ideologues. This volume presents a wide range of educational contexts for the study of censorship. It also features interviews with nine National Council of Teachers of English Intellectual Freedom Award winners, including authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Nic Stone. Readers of this volume will gain a deeper understanding of teachers' perspectives and will learn strategies for teaching diverse texts in the current climate and for advocating to keep diverse books in students' hands.

Book Synopsis

Classrooms--where students, their families, and curricular expectations intersect with legislation, education policies, and community norms--have become the sites of censorship and attacks on students' right to read. Teachers are the professionals charged with weaving these competing forces into a coherent curriculum and supportive school experience.

The Impacts of Censorship, Volume 2 offers research that centers teachers working in a climate of book challenges and bans, censorship, restrictive legislation, angry parents, and ideologues. With essays that incorporate research from Idaho, Iowa, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas, this volume presents a wide range of educational contexts for the study of censorship. It also features interviews with nine National Council of Teachers of English Intellectual Freedom Award winners, including authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Nic Stone.

Readers of this volume will gain a deeper understanding of teachers' perspectives and will learn strategies for teaching diverse texts in the current climate and for advocating to keep diverse books in students' hands.

About the Author

Mark Letcher is an associate professor of English education and director of the English Language Arts Teaching program at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. His research and teaching specialize in preservice teacher education, writing teacher education, and adolescent literature and literacies. He also has served, since 2021, as the executive director of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN). His work has been published in multiple NCTE journals. He has also published work on young adult literature in a number of edited collections.