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College Civic Engagement and Education Behind Bars: Connecting Communities, Creating Change
Author(s) -
Gould Mary Rachel,
Harkins Gillian,
Stevens Kyes
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.20148
Subject(s) - prison , battle , citizen journalism , sociology , service learning , civic engagement , pedagogy , service (business) , public relations , political science , public administration , criminology , law , politics , archaeology , economy , economics , history
In this provocative chapter, three authors engage the battle of ideas that undergird thinking about prison today, and they call for a reconceptualization of prison education in terms of a participatory model rather than thinking of it as a “service.”