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Education in Prison - Studying Through Distance Learning (Paperback)
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The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding
education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or
discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of
education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important
implications. This extended analysis of prisoner education
represents a unique contribution to an under-researched field,
whilst also making important and original connections between
research on education in prison and the literature on adult
learning in the community. Through offering crucial insights into
the varied motivations and disincentives that inform prisoners'
decisions to study in prison (whether it be through distance
learning or prison-based classes), the reader is also able to
consider factors that inform decisions to engage in a broader range
of positive and constructive activities whilst in prison. These
research findings provide insight into how prison culture and
prison policies may impact upon rehabilitative endeavour and
suggest ways in which prisons may seek to encourage constructive
and/ or rehabilitative activities amongst their inhabitants if
desired. Based on interviews and questionnaires completed by
British adult prisoners studying through distance learning, this
qualitative study offers a valuable complement and counterpart to
prison education studies that focus on measuring recidivism rates.
The learner-centred approach used yields a nuanced and complex
understanding of the varied ways in which education in prison
actually operates and is experienced, and considers the
consequences of this for the students' lives. As such, the findings
offer further insight into important evidence resulting from
recidivism studies reviewed within the book, whilst contributing to
the reemerging interest in studies of prison life and prison
culture that are based on prisoner interviews.
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