Can I Teach That? Negotiating Taboo Language and Controversial
Topics in the Language Arts Classroom is a collection of stories,
strategies, advice, and documents collected for teachers who are
using or plan to use materials or implement policies they know may
be controversial. It is for any teacher dedicated to engaging their
students in the complex, challenging, and rewarding activities of
reading and writing, for any teacher committed to speaking honestly
with students. For any teacher, period. Because when we decide to
work with young people, when we commit to sharing books and ideas
that engage their hearts and minds, when we strive to get
adolescents to think critically and write honestly, we open
ourselves up to suspicion and critique from someone, somewhere, no
matter how above reproach we feel our materials and strategies are.
Few language arts teachers will experience a full-blown challenge
to the content of their curriculum, but many may self-censor or
suffer through awkward and challenging conversations with
colleagues, administrators, parents, and other members of their
community. This book is for those times when teachers are called on
to defend and legitimize their use of controversial material in
their classroom--material that they know reflects students'
reality, even as it makes adults uncomfortable and fearful about
their inability to protect children from that very reality.
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