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Prison(er) Education
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491_9781872870908
A major collection of writings about the transforming power of education in British prisons.Prison(er) Education comprises key essays by leading prison education practitioners, academics and prisoners, including new work on how to evaluate the success of education within prison by Dr Ray Pawson of Leeds University, and Stephen Duguid of Simon Fraser University, Canada.A major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond basic skills, and at a time when prison regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses.Edited by two leading experts on prison education in the United Kingdom - Professor David Wilson of the University of Central England (a former prison governor and co-presenter of BBC TVs Crime Squad), and Dr Anne Reuss of the University of Abertay (who previously taught at HM Prison Full Sutton).Weaving anecdote, research and evaluation, Prison(er) Education presents for the first time a comprehensive account of education inside British prisons. At the heart of the book lies the questionWho is prison education for: prison or prisoners?This book is a major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond basic skills, and at a time when regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Weaving anecdote with solid research and evaluation, the book presents for the first time in Britain a comprehensive account of education inside prisons. ReviewsHighly authoritative . . . a major challenge: Inside TimeThis book will be of interest to anyone working in the Prison Service, and to educators in general... Non-academic staff will recognise the conflicts, constraints, and challenges, that teachers and learners face...: Sally Bishens, Prison Service JournalA diverse, informative survey... of great importance in more ways then can easily be listed: Michael McMullan, Justice of the PeaceEditorsPrison(er) Education is introduced and concl
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