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Explores the role of education in rehabilitating incarcerated people
Examines the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education in prison
Analyses what more needs to be done at the intersection of incarceration and education
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Educating to Eliminate Risk and Change Lives
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Front Matter
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Restrictions and Opportunities
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world. Such exploration is particularly necessary given the complex operational barriers to education, and higher education in particular, within prison-based teaching and learning. These operational barriers are matched by cultural and polemical barriers, such as the criticism of diverting resources to and spending money on prisoner education when the cost of some education seems prohibitive for people outside prison. More so than in other education contexts, prison education may fall short of higher ideals because it is shot through with both practical and moral-political problems and challenges, especially in the age of global late capitalism, high technology and mass incarceration or securitization. This book includes insights and issues around a wide range of areas including: ethics, religion, sociology, justice, identity and political and moral philosophy.
Editors and Affiliations
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UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Marcus K Harmes, Barbara Harmes, Meredith A Harmes
About the editors
Barbara Harmes lectures at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research focussed on the discursive controls built around sexuality in late-nineteenth-century England. Her research interests include cultural studies and religion. She has published in areas including modern Australian politics, 1960s American television and her original field of Victorian literature.
Meredith Harmes teaches communication and also works in the enabling programs at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Her research interests include modern British and Australian politics and popular culture in Britain and America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education
Book Subtitle: Aims, Contradictions, Promises and Problems
Editors: Marcus K Harmes, Barbara Harmes, Meredith A Harmes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86830-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86829-1Published: 29 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86832-1Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86830-7Published: 27 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 276
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Alternative Education, Educational Philosophy, Prison and Punishment