Open AccessUCC enters Cork Prison: Transformative pedagogy through arts education
Author(s) -
James G. R. Cronin
Publication year - 2019
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.33178/lc.2019.18
Subject(s) - prison , cork , general partnership , transformative learning , creativity , sociology , the arts , spike (software development) , visual arts , pedagogy , engineering , political science , art , criminology , law , materials science , software engineering , composite material
This paper makes explicit processes of collaboration in a learning community partnership between Cork Prison and University College Cork (UCC). Cork Prison is a closed, medium security prison for adult males. It is a committal prison for counties Cork, Kerry and Waterford. The learning partnership has two objectives: firstly, to foster critical thinking strategies influenced by UCC’s application of the Project Zero Classroom, Harvard Graduate School of Education; secondly, to support student voices by promoting conversations on creativity resulting in the production of artworks exhibited during summertime on Spike Island, Cork Harbour, communicating prison as community in society.