Open AccessThe Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (in prison): Using the frames to teach incarcerated students
Author(s) -
Clare Kuntz Balcer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.81.4.178
Subject(s) - prison , general partnership , tutor , class (philosophy) , literacy , information literacy , medical education , race (biology) , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , political science , criminology , gender studies , computer science , medicine , law , artificial intelligence
As a sophomore at Goucher College—with a growing awareness of the connections between race, class, education, and incarceration in the United States—I decided to volunteer as a writing tutor with the Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP). GPEP “provides men and women incarcerated in Maryland with the opportunity to pursue an excellent college education” in classes where “students are held to the rigorous academic standards for which Goucher is known.”