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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"banned books"”.
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Combating Banned Books and Censorship in the English Classroom
… novels of all genres and types are being banned and challenged across the country, simply for containing (what is deemed to be) “inappropriate topics”—including sexuality, gender, violence, mental health, religion, and racism. Even if novels have been shown to be educational on the topics, …
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Banned Books and Educational Censorship: The Necessity of Keeping Queer Books in Schools
… fundamentally disagreeing with the censorship of books, book banning has spiraled out of control in the United States. The number of new book bans rises almost exponentially every school year, and books with queer themes are targeted far more frequently. Pro-ban advocates use deliberately …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
… field of book history at their nexus, to examine books and authors designated as heretical (and sometimes seditious) by England’s clergy, monarchs, and Privy Councils between the years 1526 and 1558. My analysis is supported by my Appendix of Banned Books and Authors, which lists specific book …
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Teaching to the Heart: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Elementary Educators’ Journey Toward Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice
… United States school boards of education have banned books and Critical Race Theory while attacking social justice teaching pedagogies. Presently, there is growing empirical research on teaching mathematics for social justice in public elementary schools. This study explored the ways in which …
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The Quixote code: Reading between the lines of the Cervantes novel
… in the creation of the first blacklist of banned books, the <em>Index Librorum Prohibitorum. </em>In this second half of the study, a construction of a theory of mind of Cervantes is used to examine how, when confronted by an environment of religious oppression and intolerance and …