Allons-y! Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter. The news: Harry Potter's greatest feat might not have been defeating Voldemort, but teaching young people around the world to battle prejudice. At least that's the finding of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, which claims reading the Harry Potter series significantly improved young peoples' perception of stigmatized groups like immigrants, homosexuals or refugees.
The studies: The Pacific Standard broke down the three studies used in this paper. The first took 34 Italian fifth-graders and plunged them into a six-week course on Potter. The researchers began by having the students fill out a questionnaire on immigrants, and then split them into two groups which read selected passages from the series. A second study with 117 Italian high school students found that a reader's emotional identification with Harry was associated with more positive perceptions of LGBT people in general.
Image Credit: AP Tom McKay. List of books banned by governments. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In many territories, distribution, promotion, or certain translations of the Bible have historically been prohibited or impeded. See Censorship of the Bible.[1] Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another. [citation needed] Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States.
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Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century | Banned & Challenged Books. Against Banning Books. The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter. Huckleberry Finn. Harry Potter. The Diary of Anne Frank. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Da Vinci Code. While I do not equate banning books with "authoritarianism," we do endorse Issitt's belief that individual citizens have the right to choose, under their own discretion, what books to read.
While I agree that parents should play an active role in educating their children and as their primary guardians, have the legal right to monitor what their children read, I disagree that this legal right extends to controlling what other children in the neighborhood read as well. As Healey stated, parents also tend to ban books based on "moral grounds, although some books have been condemned for their perspectives on civic values and history. " Topics that seem socially outlawed in public, let alone published, have been banned because their immoral content may have a negative affect on younger children.
Banned Books. By Borgna Brunner "Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "—Judy Blume Many people think that book banning is something that only happened in the past. But in 2013 alone, 307 attempts to ban books were made! What is a Banned Book? A banned book is one that has been censored by an authority—a government, a library, or a school system. Why Are Books Banned? As the American Library Association notes, books are usually banned "with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information. " Not everyone agrees on which books should be banned. Freedom of Speech and Expression The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees our right to free speech, which includes the right to read and write books that might be considered by some to be too violent, hateful, or offensive.
A Matter of Opinion Famous Banned Books.