The difficult art of higher education delivery in prison: aims, contradictions, promises and problems

Policek, Nicoletta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-4869 (2022) The difficult art of higher education delivery in prison: aims, contradictions, promises and problems. In: Harmes, Marcus K., Harmes, Barbara and Harmes, Meredith A., (eds.) Histories and philosophies of carceral education: aims, contradictions, promises and problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 209-227. Full text not available from this repository.

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Abstract

Higher education delivery in prison is both a theory and a practice of helping prisoners achieve critical consciousness by providing ways of thinking, and modes of being which open up distinctive conditions so that prisoners can acquire a new awareness as citizens (Abs & Veldhuis, 2006). Therefore, this contribution contends, higher education in prison is both a political and pedagogical strategy assisting democratization and active citizenship. This strategy sustains prisoners’ use of their right of resistance, validating the prerogatives of an individual in contrast to the central power structure present in the social order that is the prison.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	9783030868307
Departments:	Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership > Policing and Criminology
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	01 Feb 2023 17:11
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 14:01
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6849