Literacy Behind Prison Walls
Author | : Gordon Press Publishers |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997-06 |
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ISBN | : 9780849082269 |
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Author | : Gordon Press Publishers |
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Release | : 1997-06 |
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ISBN | : 9780849082269 |
Author | : Karl Haigler |
Publisher | : Center |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
This is one of a series of reports that look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. This report provides an in-depth look at the literacy skills of prisoners incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Contents: -Executive Summary Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Skills of America's Prisoners Chapter 3: Experiences Before Prison Chapter 4: Experiences Unique to Prison Life Chapter 5: Recidivism and Literacy Chapter 6: Comparing Literacy Practices and Self-Perceptions of the Prison and Household Populations.
Author | : Karl Haigler |
Publisher | : Center |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
This is one of a series of reports that look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. This report provides an in-depth look at the literacy skills of prisoners incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Contents: -Executive Summary Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Skills of America's Prisoners Chapter 3: Experiences Before Prison Chapter 4: Experiences Unique to Prison Life Chapter 5: Recidivism and Literacy Chapter 6: Comparing Literacy Practices and Self-Perceptions of the Prison and Household Populations.
Author | : Deborah Appleman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0393713687 |
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.
Author | : Jill Grunenwald |
Publisher | : Center Point |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781643583211 |
In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a men's minimum-security prison. Talk about baptism by fire.
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781422325438 |
Author | : Lorenzo Steele, Jr. |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2017-02-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540459978 |
Behind These Prison Walls "Life Inside Rikers Island" gives a photographic journey into the nation's most violent adolescent jail on Rikers Island. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist gives viewers a first-hand account into the horrors and dangers officers and detainees were subjected to daily. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist Lorenzo Steele Jr. uses art as a medium to change habits and behaviors that can lead to criminal activity. Lorenzo served 12 years as an officer on Rikers Island (1987-1999) and his mission through the arts is to deter youth from making choices and decisions that can have a devastating effect on their lives. It's an educational book that's grade appropriate and can be used in public-schools, churches, colleges and art galleries.
Author | : Mary E. Styslinger |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2017-01-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 144226926X |
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
Author | : Andrea Amodeo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Functional literacy |
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Author | : Patrick W. Berry |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0809336375 |
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.