Books: The Dying Art in Education

Publication Date

Spring 4-28-2025

Document Type

Student Project

First Advisor

Melanie Koss

Department

Department of Curriculum and Instruction (CI)

Abstract

I will be addressing the topic of book bans in education, pulling from multiple sources and interviews done with educators stating their opinions on this topic. In video format, I will visually take the audience through my topic, getting through the importance it is to everyone and not just education majors like me. I want to bring attention to this topic, reaching a large audience to try and get the necessary attention to help our education system from becoming censored. Books are being banned at an alarming rate and most people do not know or really care that this is happening. This will lead to issues with how informed our future generations are, leading to less competent citizens later who will be in control of the country. I propose that instead of banning books entirely that we look at alternative options of imposing age restrictions as we do with other things in our lives. Censorship is a dangerous game that cannot continue and only be informing others and being proactive may we deal with this properly.

Suggested Citation

(2022). America’s Book Bans: The Latest Culture War Front. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKasIh7qtA. (2022). Book banning in U.S. schools and libraries on the rise. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFxAsm_Fys. (2022). Culture Wars: Why book bans are trending in the US. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6S6-KsmG4I&t=19s. (2022). Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_zHAyhD4I&t=18s. (2025). banning books never leads to anything good. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AzKg4AcpFJ8. (2025). Tik Tok by Nadia. Retrieved from https://www.tiktok.com/@nadiablaxkbooks/video/7492848682652634414. (2025). we need to talk about banned books. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbfhZN5mlt4. NYPL Staff. (2023, September 25). Banned books reading list: Stand for the right to read freely. The New York Public Library. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/09/25/banned-books-week-reading-list team, E. S. (2024, December 19). Off the shelves. ArcGIS StoryMaps. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/db3d6acb7d35423a9ada1617f00d9b99

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