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- Title
The Right to Education, Prison-University Partnerships, and Online Writing Pedagogy in the US.
- Authors
Lockard, Joe; Rankins-Robertson, Sherry
- Abstract
The essay addresses the right to education for inmates and the disappearance of postsecondary education from US prisons; prison-university educational partnerships; and the potential of online programmes toward realization of education rights for US prisoners. As practical address to these issues, the article discusses an English department initiative to provide a partnership with prisons. As a creative example of how to reach all prison populations, this essay illustrates an online writing internship between undergraduate writing majors with primarily maximum-security inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. By using online technology common on university campuses in the United States and elsewhere, the project has created a prison-university bridge and educational service that can be replicated and scaled upward. Such digital work spurs new social activism within university communities.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NEW Mexico; RIGHT to education; PRISON educators; EDUCATION of prisoners; AMERICAN prisoners' writings; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Critical Survey, 2011, Vol 23, Issue 3, p23
- ISSN
0011-1570
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.3167/cs.2011.230303