Recounts the experiences of a former middle school English department head during a heated battle concerning the censorship of reading materials within the department. Critiques the conventional wisdom regarding cases of censorship, and provides tips for dealing with the issue. (HB)

Despite de Beauvoir's language of bifurcations in her writings, she actually initiates a process of deconstructing Cartesian distinctions between the individual and society, past and present, present and future, means and ends, and ethics and freedom. The paper reconceptualizes her book, "The Ethics of Ambiguity," proposing a movement…

This essay examines the origins of academic freedom in the nation's higher education institutions and explores the current debate about academic freedom. It suggests that postmodernist thinking that questions the existence of any truth may be a threat to the academic freedom valued by the professoriate, who are described as a "quarrel of…

Describes the American Library Association (ALA) Convention in New Orleans from a teen's perspective, particularly the Intellectual Freedom Teen Panel. Topics include barriers to information, including Internet filters; censoring and the First Amendment; and general impressions of the convention, including meeting authors. Sidebar includes notes…

Considers attacks on the Newbery Award-winning "Bridge to Terabithia" and the implications of those attacks for adolescent literature. (RS)

Asserts that there are ways in which the religious commitments of colleges and universities can and do serve their academic aspirations: through providing a framework for integration of knowledge and a foundation for a spirit of truth-seeking and free inquiry. (EV)

Addresses the relationship of technology, power, and liberty during the formative years of the United States. Discusses the values associated with technology use and the dangers that technological illiteracy poses to freedom as dependence on technology increases. (SK)

Explores the educational role of the campus newspaper as an open forum for ideas and opinions from diverse sources and its legal restraints and responsibilities in so doing, as reflected in a review of recent court cases related to the issue. (RS)

Claims poststructuralism offers vocabularies and arguments that might help administrators analyze academic practices. Argues the theory (1) offers a critique of faith in immutable truths that is usefully remembered in practicing administration; (2) provides an important reminder of the waywardness of language; and (3) is useful in its…

Discusses 10 cases of censorship that have affected the author personally as a student and as an educator. (RS)

Presents an edited letter to an archbishop from a professor resisting the mandating process for Catholic professors outlined in the church's "Ex Corde Ecclesiae." The letter offers an analysis of theological and legal flaws in the guidelines. (EV)

Discusses how Sami Al-Arian, of the University of South Florida, may become the first tenured professor to lose his job for his views in the aftermath of September 11. Many faculty members say academic freedom will take a beating. (EV)

Describes some of Norman Rockwell's best known works, along with questions teachers can use to stimulate class discussions. Includes descriptions and discussion questions related to Rockwell's paintings of American people depicting freedom, tolerance, and patriotism. (PKP)

At the micro-level of the interaction between teacher and learner, the production of docile bodies and the constitution of normalised forms of subjectivity, Michel Foucault's work on power was clearly innovative in its challenge to the authority of the teacher. He challenges it in two ways at least. First, philosophically, his work challenges…

The freedom to pursue intellectual inquiries wherever they might lead and the freedom to give expression to one's views, whatever they might be, are crucial for the intellectual health of educational institutions. But while those who teach zealously defend their own academic freedom, they sometimes overlook the fact that academic freedom is just…