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- Title: Intellectual Freedom for Young Adolescents.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 186 KB
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Although some music lyrics and television content may indicate an overall easing of censorship in U.S. society, authors, educators, young people, and all other individuals who value free access to information continue to face the threat of censorship from people who try to impose their value systems on others. Recently, censors used the words in the left column of Table 1 to describe one of the books for young adolescents in the right column. See if you can match them correctly. The answers are at the end of this article. While censorship can affect any type of communication (print and electronic) at any grade level, it presents a special problem in the upper elementary and middle school grades. Children at this level are developing cognitively, physically, and psychosocially. As they mature and become young adults, they are changing on a daily basis, with some individuals developing faster than others. "Every young adolescent is growing up, but each is taking a different road and going at a different speed on his or her journey from childhood to adulthood" (Manning & Bucher, 2005, p. 31). Teachers and library media specialists (LMSs) realize that diversity is a hallmark of 10- to 14-year-olds. They also realize the need to provide reading and instructional materials that will promote young adolescents' ability to think abstractly, to make moral judgments, and to perceive events in situational contexts. Thus, they select and use print and nonprint materials that will appeal to many different students who evidence a variety of developmental characteristics. In so doing, they need to be aware of the problems caused by censorship and must support and protect intellectual freedom. A young adolescent's cognitive development should not be limited by censors' efforts to curtail readers' thought processes.