Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison
Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall
- 200 pages
- English
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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison
Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall
About this book
This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or "college-in-prison") programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction, but also addresses prison abolition, reentry, and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors, currently incarcerated students, and formerly incarcerated students, providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison, contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics, conditions, and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence, the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators, but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical, democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. An Open Letter to Prison Educators
- 2. Hope for Leaving a Legacy
- 3. Repairing the Generations: Prison Higher Education as Historical Reparations
- 4. Pedagogy of the Offender
- 5. A Nice Outfit
- 6. From Africa to High Desert State Prison: Journeys of an Invisible Teacher
- 7. The Perils of Transformation Talk in Higher Education in Prison
- 8. On the Practice and Ethos of Self-Compassion for Higher Educators in Prisons
- 9. Beyond Progress: Indigenous Scholars, Relational Methodologies, and Decolonial Options for the Prison Classroom
- 10. No One Ever Asked Me: Embracing Embodied Pedagogy in the Creative Writing Classroom
- 11. “Go Hard”: Bringing Privilege-Industry Pedagogies into a College Writing Classroom in Prison
- 12. Women’s Writing Groups Inside: Healing, Resistance, and Change
- 13. Writing for Reentry: A Few Lessons from Transfer Theory
- 14. Untimeliness; or, What Can Happen in the Waiting
- 15. Teaching American History in Prison
- 16. The Prison Oppresses: Avoiding the False Us/Them Binary in Prison Education
- 17. Learning Inside-Out: The Perspectives of Two Individuals Who Had the Opportunity to Partake in the Soul Journey of Healing Arts and Social Change
- 18. Healing Pedagogy from the Inside Out: The Paradox of Liberatory Education in Prison
- 19. Schools, Prisons, and Higher Education
- Index