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Teaching the Arts Behind Bars

Author : Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535681
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Arts Behind Bars written by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's two million incarcerated men, women, and youth live in a hidden, isolated world filled with depression, anxiety, hostility, and violence. But the nation's soaring prison population has not been forgotten by a dedicated network of visual artists, writers, poets, dancers, musicians, and actors who teach the arts in correctional settings. This anthology compiles the narratives of several accomplished arts-in-corrections teachers who share their personal experiences, philosophies, and bittersweet anecdotes, as well as practical advice, survival skills, and program evaluation guidelines. Teaching the Arts Behind Bars is an invaluable tool for artists, program administrators, and corrections professionals, and a testament to the power of creative expression in promoting communication, positive social interaction, inner healing, and self-esteem.

Education Behind Bars

Author : Christopher Zoukis
Publisher : Sunbury Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781934597774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Education Behind Bars written by Christopher Zoukis and published by Sunbury Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, prison education is almost non-existent. Why does it matter? Because our failure to invest in opportunities for correctional college education weakens the very fabric of society. Christopher Zoukis explains the enormity of its impact, not just on prisoners, but on our entire society and our nation's prosperity, in the hope that greater understanding will result in wise legislative action for our common good. Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to start the ball rolling and do something about it!

Literacy Behind Bars

Author : Mary E. Styslinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442269255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Literacy Behind Bars written by Mary E. Styslinger and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices that have been successfully used with those incarcerated around the nation. These include: -creating graphic novels, -book clubs, -writing about gang life, -reading buddies, -urban literature -developing a writing workshop -establishing a school library

Doing Time, Writing Lives

Author : Patrick W. Berry
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336375
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Doing Time, Writing Lives written by Patrick W. Berry and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that - despite housing more than 2.2 million people -remains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a college-in-prison program that promotes the belief that higher education in prison can reduce recidivism and improve life prospects for the incarcerated and their families, author Patrick W. Berry exposes not only incarcerated students' hopes and dreams for their futures but also their anxieties about whether education will help them. Beginning by exploring the need to move beyond narratives of hope when discussing literacy initiatives within prisons, Berry then illustrates how teachers and students frequently hold on to different beliefs about literacy and its power in the world. After discussing the possibilities and limitations of professional writing courses in prisons, the author argues that we need to pay greater attention to teachers and their motivations in prison education initiatives. Finally, he offers a case study of one formerly imprisoned student who uses writing in his current life and how this does (and does not) connect with what he learned in his prison education program. Combining case studies and interviews with the author's own personal experiences teaching writing in prison, Doing Time, Writing Lives chronicles how incarcerated students attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. It challenges polarizing rhetoric often used to describe what literacy can and cannot deliver, suggesting more nuanced and ethical ways of understanding literacy and possibility in an age of mass incarceration.

Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

Author : Deborah Appleman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393713687
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison written by Deborah Appleman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars. Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir, and fiction, the students in Appleman’s classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. The students’ work, through which they probe and develop their identities as readers and writers, illuminates the transformative power of literacy. Appleman argues for the importance of educating the incarcerated, and explores ways to interrupt the increasingly common journey from urban schools to our nation’s prisons. From the sobering endpoint of what scholars have called the “school to prison pipeline,” she draws insight from the narratives and experiences of those who have traveled it.

Philosophy Behind Bars

Author : Kirstine Szifris
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529205557
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Behind Bars written by Kirstine Szifris and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male prisons can be dangerous places with a climate of distrust, but can long-term prisoners be given the space to reflect and grow ? This ground-breaking study found that engaging prisoners in philosophy education enabled them to think about some of the ‘big’ questions in life and as a result to see themselves and others differently.

Teaching Behind Bars

Author : Scott Wier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477668177
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Behind Bars written by Scott Wier and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school teacher is assigned to a maximum security jail. His class, seasoned young offenders aged 16-18 awaiting formal sentencing. He is locked in a room, together with the inmates for four hours a day with a phone as the sole means of communication with the guards. From 1995-2000 Scott Wier taught (and documented) not only his first-hand experiences with the adolescent prisoners, but their own written accounts and thoughts about living behind bars, and on the streets. These were the carjackers, the drug peddlers, the molesters, the rapists, the assailants, the home invaders, the murderers, the psychopaths, the addicts, and the thieves. 'Teaching Behind Bars' is a true account which consists of an anthology of vignettes and student writings that will amuse, entertain, trouble, shock, and enlighten any reader wanting an inside glimpse into the lives of incarcerated youth.

Visiting Day

Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Nancy Paulsen Books
ISBN 13 : 0147516080
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Day written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Nancy Paulsen Books. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.

Liberating Minds

Author : Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620971232
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Minds written by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and thought-provoking argument for offering free college in prisons—from the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anthony Cardenales was a stickup artist in the Bronx before spending seventeen years in prison. Today he is a senior manager at a recycling plant in Westchester, New York. He attributes his ability to turn his life around to the college degree he earned in prison. Many college-in-prison graduates achieve similar success and the positive ripple effects for their families and communities, and for the country as a whole, are dramatic. College-in-prison programs have been shown to greatly reduce recidivism. They increase post-prison employment, allowing the formerly incarcerated to better support their families and to reintegrate successfully into their communities. College programs also decrease violence within prisons, improving conditions for both correction officers and the incarcerated. Liberating Minds eloquently makes the case for these benefits and also illustrates them through the stories of formerly incarcerated college students. As the country confronts its legacy of over-incarceration, college-in-prison provides a corrective on the path back to a more democratic and humane society. “Lagemann includes intensive research, but her most powerful supporting evidence comes from the anecdotes of former prisoners who have become published poets, social workers, and nonprofit leaders.”—Publishers Weekly

College in Prison

Author : Daniel Karpowitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813584132
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book College in Prison written by Daniel Karpowitz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how the liberal arts can alter the landscape of some of our most important public institutions giving people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI’s development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts dramatic scenes from in and around college-in-prison classrooms pinpointing the contested meanings that emerge in moments of highly-charged reading, writing, and public speaking. Through examining the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions—the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary—College in Prison makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States.

Prison Pedagogies

Author : Joe Lockard
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654286
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Prison Pedagogies written by Joe Lockard and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and teachers. However, too few write for college credit. In the dearth of well-organized higher education in US prisons, noncredit programs established by colleges and universities have served as a leading means of informal learning in these settings. Thousands of teachers have entered prisons, many teaching writing or relying on writing practices when teaching other subjects. Yet these teachers have few pedagogical resources. This groundbreaking collection of essays provides such a resource and establishes a framework upon which to develop prison writing programs. Prison Pedagogies does not champion any one prescriptive approach to writing education but instead recognizes a wide range of possibilities. Essay subjects include working-class consciousness and prison education; community and literature writing at different security levels in prisons; organized writing classes in jails and juvenile halls; cultural resistance through writing education; prison newspapers and writing archives as pedagogical resources; dialogical approaches to teaching prison writing classes; and more. The contributors within this volume share a belief that writing represents a form of intellectual and expressive self-development in prison, one whose pursuit has transformative potential.

School Behind Bars

Author : Michael V. Reagen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Behind Bars written by Michael V. Reagen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education

Author : Lois M. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833081322
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education written by Lois M. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates' risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.

Born Behind Bars

Author : Padma Venkatraman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593112482
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Born Behind Bars written by Padma Venkatraman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Venkatraman has never met a heavy theme she did not like....Borrowing elements of fable, it's told with a recurring sense of awe by a boy whom the world, for most of his life, has existed only in stories.”—New York Times Book Review The author of the award-winning The Bridge Home brings readers another gripping novel set in Chennai, India, featuring a boy who's unexpectedly released into the world after spending his whole life in jail with his mom. Kabir has been in jail since the day he was born, because his mom is serving time for a crime she didn't commit. He's never met his dad, so the only family he's got are their cellmates, and the only place he feels the least bit free is in the classroom, where his kind teacher regales him with stories of the wonders of the outside world. Then one day a new warden arrives and announces Kabir is too old to stay. He gets handed over to a long-lost "uncle" who unfortunately turns out to be a fraud, and intends to sell Kabir. So Kabir does the only thing he can--run away as fast as his legs will take him. How does a boy with nowhere to go and no connections make his way? Fortunately, he befriends Rani, another street kid, and she takes him under her wing. But plotting their next move is hard--and fraught with danger--in a world that cares little for homeless, low caste children. This is not the world Kabir dreamed of--but he's discovered he's not the type to give up. Kabir is ready to show the world that he--and his mother--deserve a place in it.

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Author : Jean Trounstine
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466874155
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Behind Bars written by Jean Trounstine and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply stirring account of one woman's experience teaching drama to women in prison. I began to understand that female prisoners are not "damaged goods" and to recognize that most of these women had toughed it out in a society that favors others-- by gender, class, or race. They are Desdemonas suffering because of jealous men, Lady Macbeths craving the power of their spouses, Portias disguised as men in order to get ahead, and Shylocks who, being betrayed, take the law into their own hands. So writes Jean Trounstine in Shakespeare Behind Bars. In this gripping account, Trounstine, who spent ten years teaching at Framingham Women's Prison in Massachusetts, focuses on six inmates who, each in her own way, discover in the power of great drama a way to transcend the painful constraints of incarceration. We meet: * Dolly, a fiftyish grandmother who brings her knitting to classes and starts a battered-women's group in prison *Bertie, a Jamaican beauty estranged from her homeland, torn with guilt, and shunned for her crime * Kit, a tough, wisecracking con who stirs up trouble whenever she can-- until she's threatened with losing her kids * Rose, an outsider in the prison community who lives with HIV and eventually gains acceptance through drama * Rhonda, a college-educated leader whose life falls apart when her father dies and who struggles in prison to reestablish her roots * Mamie, a nurse in the free world, now the prison gardener who makes cards with poetry and dried flowers and battles her own illness behind bars Shakespeare Behind Bars is a uniquely powerful work that gives voice to forgotten women, sheds a compassionate light on a dark world, and proves the redemptive power of art and education.

Literacy behind bars results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422325438
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Literacy behind bars results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literacy behind Bars

Author : Mary E. Styslinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144226926X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Literacy behind Bars written by Mary E. Styslinger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices that have been successfully used with those incarcerated around the nation. These include: creating graphic novels, book clubs, writing about gang life, reading buddies, urban literature developing a writing workshop establishing a school library