Schooling in a "total institution" : critical perspectives on prison education

Author(s)

• Davidson, Howard S.

Bibliographic Information

Schooling in a "total institution" : critical perspectives on prison education

edited by Howard S. Davidson

（Critical studies in education and culture series）

Bergin & Garvey, 1995

• : alk. paper
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: alk. paper ISBN 9780897893473

Description

This critical perspective on prison education is a marked departure from a literature dominated by descriptions of the criminal mind and correctional education strategies to cure it. Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators. Conventionally, prison education is about correcting cognitive deficiencies and improving job opportunities. Here the issues are schooling as surveillance, as politics, and as a means to reconstruct a historical consciousness that remembers personal histories. The essays examine prison schools as they originated and developed, identify processes of differentiation and segregation, expose contradictions, and recount occurrences of prison resistance. There are chapters on prison education as critical pedagogy, literacy and higher education, women prisoners and education, and the irony that most prisoners believe in the American Dream while often being victims of socioeconomic inequity.

Table of Contents

Preface Possibilities for Critical Pedagogy in a "Total Institution": An Introduction to Critical Perspectives on Prison Education by Howard S. Davidson The Ironies of Prison Education by Jim Thomas On Prison Education and Women in Prison: An Interview with Therasa Ann Glaremin by Gay Bell and Therasa Ann Glaremin Shades of the Prison House: Adult Literacy and the Correctional Ethos by Michael Collins Freeing Birds, Erasing Images, Burning Lamps: How I Learned to Teach in Prison by Peter Linebaugh Teaching "Criminology" to "Criminals" by Edward Sbarbaro Prison Education: A Contextual Analysis by Dante Germanotta Prison Higher Education and the American Dream: The Case of INSIGHT, INC. by Robert P. Weiss A Note on Prison Activism and Social Justice by Edward Sbarbaro Prison, Higher Education, and Reintegration: A Communitarian Critique by Peter Cordella A Non-traditional Approach to Social and Criminal Justice by Juan A. Rivera The Santa Cruz Women's Prison Project, 1972-1976 by Karlene Faith Jailhouse Lawyers Educating Fellow Prisoners by Julian Stone References Index

Volume

: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780897894265

Description

This critical perspective on prison education is a marked departure from a literature dominated by descriptions of the criminal mind and correctional education strategies to cure it. Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators. Conventionally, prison education is about correcting cognitive deficiencies and improving job opportunities. Here the issues are schooling as surveillance, as politics, and as a means to reconstruct a historical consciousness that remembers personal histories. The essays examine prison schools as they originated and developed, identify processes of differentiation and segregation, expose contradictions, and recount occurrences of prison resistance. There are chapters on prison education as critical pedagogy, literacy and higher education, women prisoners and education, and the irony that most prisoners believe in the American Dream while often being victims of socioeconomic inequity.

Table of Contents

Preface Possibilities for Critical Pedagogy in a "Total Institution": An Introduction to Critical Perspectives on Prison Education by Howard S. Davidson The Ironies of Prison Education by Jim Thomas On Prison Education and Women in Prison: An Interview with Therasa Ann Glaremin by Gay Bell and Therasa Ann Glaremin Shades of the Prison House: Adult Literacy and the Correctional Ethos by Michael Collins Freeing Birds, Erasing Images, Burning Lamps: How I Learned to Teach in Prison by Peter Linebaugh Teaching "Criminology" to "Criminals" by Edward Sbarbaro Prison Education: A Contextual Analysis by Dante Germanotta Prison Higher Education and the American Dream: The Case of INSIGHT, INC. by Robert P. Weiss A Note on Prison Activism and Social Justice by Edward Sbarbaro Prison, Higher Education, and Reintegration: A Communitarian Critique by Peter Cordella A Non-traditional Approach to Social and Criminal Justice by Juan A. Rivera The Santa Cruz Women's Prison Project, 1972-1976 by Karlene Faith Jailhouse Lawyers Educating Fellow Prisoners by Julian Stone References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA26599338
• ISBN:
  • 0897893476
  • 089789426X
• LCCN: 94036221
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 229 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV8875
  • DC20 : 365/.66
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Prisoners -- Education
  • LCSH : Education -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13506367