INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM & CENSORSHIP: A TEACHING CHALLENGE

Auteurs-es

  • Ann Curry

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.26443/el.v19i1.76

Résumé

The concepts of intellectual freedom and censorship are key to the practice of librarianship, and introducing students to these concepts should be an important part of any library and information science program curriculum. Teaching this topic is often problematic, however, because personal values and beliefs are involved and because many related issues continue to be unresolved not only in society but by practitioners themselves. In the experience of this teacher, a combination of readings (both current and historical), class discussions, and small group casestudy
analyses has proved to be most effective in introducing the topic since the concepts themselves are exceedingly complex and require a variety of teaching approaches.

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Publié-e

2017-09-05