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Contributors explore how educating oneself behind bars, particularly through peer and independent learning, has liberatory and transformative potential. Published in English.

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Author:   Sandra Lehalle (Assistant professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa) ,  Vicki Chartrand (Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, Bishop’s University, Québec) ,  Jennifer M. Kilty (Associate professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa)
Publisher:   University of Ottawa Press
Imprint:   University of Ottawa Press
Weight:   0.242kg
ISBN:  

9780776624914

ISBN 10:   0776624911
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Transforming Carceral Agendas through Education: Considering the Importance of Teaching and Learning in Prison Vicki Chartrand, Jennifer M. Kilty and Sandra Lehalle...........................1 ARTICLES An Unconstrained Mind in a Shackled Body Michael Fiorini .........................................................................................6 Prison Education: My Piece of Resistance Shebuel Bel ...............................................................................................9 Freedom in Education Ismael Bonano ........................................................................................13 Mis-Education Jermaine Archer .....................................................................................18 The Building Blocks That Lead to Higher Education: Programs Provide Direction Behind Prison Walls Wilfredo Laracuente ...............................................................................28 A Purpose Driven Life: My Journey from Student to Teacher Chad Walton ...........................................................................................33 The Value of Education in Prison: Beyond the Quantitative Data Percy Levy ..............................................................................................38 Development through Diff erent Forms of Pedagogy Christopher Shea ....................................................................................42 If a Red Horse is Red, is a Blue Horse Blue? Vincent Charles Villebrun .......................................................................47                                                                  Social Justice Praxis within the Walls to Bridges Program: Pedagogy of Oppressed Federally Sentenced Women Rachel Fayter .........................................................................................56 Attempting to Secure a University Education while in Prison Petey .......................................................................................................72 Manufacturing Revolutionaries, Suppressing Dissent Kevin D. Sawyer .....................................................................................80 Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration Michelle Jones ........................................................................................98 RESPONSE Looking Back on Learning Inside the Walls: A Review of Previous JPP Special Issues on Prison Education Samantha McAleese ..............................................................................112 Past Time for Change Simone Weil Davis ................................................................................131 PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES A Doorway Out of Darkness: Education to Heal A Manifesto by Men Who Are Incarcerated .........................................136 COVER ART Untitled Anonymous ...........................................................................................140

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Holder of a European doctorate in law and of a Canadian Ph.D in Criminology, her research interests lie in the policies and practices of detention by the State, including the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners. Dr Chartrand is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University, Québec. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Jennifer M. Kilty is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. The author of numerous articles and chapters, Dr. Kilty is also co-editor of Demarginalizing Voices: Commitment, Emotion, and Action in Qualitative Research (2014).

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