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Changing Lives - Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program (Hardcover, New)
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Changing Lives - Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program (Hardcover, New)
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Here are the stories of a dozen men on probation from the busiest
criminal court in Massachusetts who met together on a college
campus for three months to read and talk about Frederick Douglass,
Malcolm X, Bill Russell, as well as Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov,
Maxim Gorky, and other authors who write about major life changes
not only issues that have gotten probationers in trouble, such as
anger and violence, substance abuse, or family breakdown, but also
background problems like poverty and racism, the need for social
justice, the weakening of community bonds, and the thinning of
spiritual sustenance."Changing Lives" presents its students with
two challenges: personal self-examination in the reflective mirror
of literary experience and group participation in a democratic
classroom in which civic virtues are fostered by being exercised.
Probationers see themselves in the characters they read about, and
they acquire new attitudes as they talk with one another about
their own plight. The classroom promotes respect for other voices
and points of view, and they learn to take each other seriously in
new ways. "Changing Lives" provides a safe haven for reflection and
earnest conversation, in which students no longer have to bluff or
be cool, guarded, or evasive. Self-esteem grows as they discover
they can hold their own in heartfelt debate, not just street corner
banter. And because the classroom puts them on equal footing with
authority figures teachers, probation officers, and even judges a
new social awareness begins to emerge. The goal is partly to
validate one s personal worthiness and partly to build a new
citizenly identity to replace the labels they have always been
stuck with. Reawakening moral consciousness and a fresh commitment
to society is essential if probationers are not to cycle endlessly
through the limbo of street life and jail time. "
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