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The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching Spanish in a Community College Prison Program
Author(s) -
Palomino Erick Nava,
Ragsdale Lee
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20142
Subject(s) - prison , community college , order (exchange) , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , medical education , criminology , business , medicine , finance
Two authors describe how teaching Spanish in an Illinois prison led them to rewrite the examples used in a Spanish textbook and engage incarcerated students in novel ways in order to make up for the lack of conventional classroom resources.