| Schooling in a Total Institution: Critical Perspectives on Prison Education Contributor(s): Davidson, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 089789426X ISBN-13: 9780897894265 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology - Education |
| Dewey: 365.66 |
| LCCN: 94036221 |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Education & Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.78 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |