Presents a lesson plan on the First Amendment that encourages students to think about what their lives, both now and in the future, would be like without the First Amendment freedoms. Gives the poster "First Amendment Freedoms" that identifies the first five freedoms of the amendment and a student handout. (CMK)

Before 1980, academic-freedom litigation favored teachers over school boards. As a 1998 case involving termination of a popular creative-writing teacher shows, today's judges rely on decision makers' judgement. Courts view academic freedom as the province of school boards and administrators, who determine how it is exercised. (MLH)

Explores how the concept of freedom in Paulo Freire's constructivist epistemology-constituted as agentive, spontaneity-based action-is in tension with his ethical project of a pedagogy for justice, one based on responsibility and non-indifference. Resolution of this tension means reconceptualizing the grounding notion of the subject beyond a…

Contemporary debates about academic freedom and institutional autonomy in South Africa's "liberal" universities began in the 1950s, stimulated by the policies and legislation for racial segregation. While the form that these debates had taken has differed from university to university, the University of Cape Town stands as a good case…

Describes some of the efforts by schools throughout the nation to celebrate the Bicentennial and the human freedoms shared in America. (RB)

Discusses the program of service offered by the Indiana chapter of the Collegiate Press Association (CPA) for 1974-75. (RB)

Revised version of paper delivered at the National Conference on Higher Education (23rd, Chicago, March 1968).

Reply to petitioners against the appearance of a controversial speaker, Winter 1968.

The materials listed in this bibliography on freedom of speech are limited to those published between July 1972 and June 1973. (Bibliographies for previous years appear in "Free Speech Yearbooks" of 1970 and 1971.) Articles and court decisions comprise the largest number of items listed, with six books included. (JM)

Denying the widely held contention that tenure is an outworn relic no longer necessary in the modern academic world and that it serves principally to provide lifelong job security for incompetent faculty members, the Commission concluded that the tenure system "is indispensable to the preservation of academic freedom, while academic freedom is…

Concludes that legal injunctions against obscenity are sexist and a violation of freedom of speech. (DD)

Discussion of intellectual freedom, freedom to read, and access to information focuses on restrictions in selection of library materials. Reasons why freedom to read is deliberately restricted and implications for child development are covered. (MES)

Relates how several controversial plays were handled and discusses censorship in academic theatre in terms of choice. (PD)

In this paper I draw out themes that run through the three plenary panel papers for PME28 (Johnsen Hoines, 2004; Santos, 2004; Vithal, 2004). The linking themes for me are children's lives, their learning of mathematics and their right to liberty. [For complete proceedings, see ED489178.]