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- Title
Care as the "Heart" of Prison Teaching.
- Authors
Wright, Randall
- Abstract
Despite the powerful, pervasive institutional imperatives of the prison to control, discipline and house inmates, teachers seem to care deeply for their students. They also intuitively know that caring is very much a part of a successful teaching practice behind bars. This descriptive study contributes to a framework of teacher caring in prison schools using data from questionnaires and conversations with prison teachers. As a result of this preliminary inquiry into teachers' practical knowledge of caring relationships, it is hoped that teachers will be supported in their efforts to exercise sound pedagogical judgement with regard to the relational dynamics of prison life. Also considered is the possibility that caring relationships in prison resist its oppressive characteristics.
- Subjects
PRISON educators; TEACHERS; CARING; TEACHER-student relationships; CORRECTIONAL institutions; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons
- Publication
Journal of Correctional Education, 2004, Vol 55, Issue 3, p191
- ISSN
0740-2708
- Publication type
Article