Critical perspectives on teaching in prison: students and instructors on pedagogy behind the wall

1. An Open Letter to Prison Educators

2. Hope for Leaving a Legacy

References

3. Repairing the Generations: Prison Higher Education as Historical Reparations

Notes

References

4. Pedagogy of the Offender

Introduction

Redefining Higher Education in Prison

Fixing a Broken Society

Conclusion

References

5. A Nice Outfit

"Proper Women"

"Unique Issues"

The Pink Collar Ghetto

"Bottom of the Barrel"

Further Considerations

References

6. From Africa to High Desert State Prison: Journeys of an Invisible Teacher

Prologue

Southern Africa

South Africa

Prison Educator

Education for Liberation in the Prison Yard

Bibliography

7. The Perils of Transformation Talk in Higher Education in Prison

Existing Prison Pedagogical Literature

Freire and Giroux

Ellsworth's Intervention

Discussion

Notes

References

8. On the Practice and Ethos of Self-Compassion for Higher Educators in Prisons

Self-Compassion as a Practice

The Ethical Dimension of Self-Compassion

An Ethos of Self-Compassion

Conclusion

Bibliography

9. Beyond Progress: Indigenous Scholars, Relational Methodologies, and Decolonial Options for the Prison Classroom

Something Other Than Progress

Indigenous Scholars and Relational Methodologies

In Search of Decolonial Options: A Five-Part Relational Methodology for the Prison Classroom

11. "Go Hard": Bringing Privilege-Industry Pedagogies into a College Writing Classroom in Prison

The Privilege Industry versus the Punishment Industry

The Privilege Industry

The Punishment Industry

Negotiation

One-on-One Consultation and Multiple Opportunities for Revision

Flexibility

Conclusion

Note

References

12. Women's Writing Groups Inside: Healing, Resistance, and Change

Incarceration, Individualism, and Harm

The Writing Groups: Challenging Harm

Personal Narratives: A Path to "Restorying"

Sharing One's Story: Doorway to Relationship

Civic Engagement and Social Change

Conclusion

Notes

References

13. Writing for Reentry: A Few Lessons from Transfer Theory

Knowledge Transfer as Creating Repurposing across Contexts

Reentry as Rhetorical Practice

Creative Repurposing and Making Do

Boundary Crossing

Hope as Critical Rhetorical Practice

Conclusion

Note

References

14. Untimeliness

or, What Can Happen in the Waiting

Wasting Time

Escaping Time

Serving Time

Disrupting Time

Integrating Time

Note

Acknowledgements

References

15. Teaching American History in Prison

References

16. The Prison Oppresses: Avoiding the False Us/Them Binary in Prison Education

Bibliography

17. Learning Inside-Out: The Perspectives of Two Individuals Who Had the Opportunity to Partake in the Soul Journey of Healing Arts and Social Change

Introduction

Osvaldo Armas

Jerrad Allen

18. Healing Pedagogy from the Inside Out: The Paradox of Liberatory Education in Prison

Introduction

Healing Pedagogy

The Liability of Vulnerability

Internal Transformation against a Backdrop of Systemic Oppression

Prison Education and Prison Abolition

Working for Change Inside and Out

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

References.

19. Schools, Prisons, and Higher Education

Corporal Punishment in Schools

Higher Education in Prison

Impostor Syndrome

Project Rebound

Conclusion

References

Index.