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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Higher education in prison."”.
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Literacy, pedagogy, and prisons: Tracing power in higher education in prison contexts
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Against social death: rhetorical resilience at the intersection of higher education and the prison
“Against Social Death: Rhetorical Resilience at the Intersection of Higher Education and the Prison” is a qualitative study of the experiences of formerly incarcerated people who participated in college programming in prison or upon their release. Throughout, I argue that incarcerated people engage …
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"Beyond those gates" : how the process of earning a college degree in prison shapes a person's hoped-for self.
The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore how the process of earning a college degree in the prison context shaped the hoped-for selves of 23 formerly incarcerated individuals. My research focus was twofold: First, I wanted to understand how the content of participants' hoped-for selves …
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Higher education & personal change in prisoners
This thesis concerns the paradox of Higher Education in prisons - paradox because the aims, practices, ideals and ideologies of the former are recognisably at odds with those of the latter, whose concern is essentially 'human containment'. Based on a three-year classroom ethnography of men …
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The Incarcerated Student in Alabama: An Exploratory Study of Student Engagement at a Technical College
The incarceration rate in the United States is slowly declining after decades of record growth. The result of this decline is a growing number of formerly incarcerated individuals reentering society. It is known that by participating in education while incarcerated, individuals are 28% less likely …