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The Difficult Art of Higher Education Delivery in Prison

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Higher education delivery in prison is both a theory and a practice of helping prisoners achieve critical consciousness by providing ways of thinking, and modes of being which open up distinctive conditions so that prisoners can acquire a new awareness as citizens (Abs & Veldhuis, 2006). Therefore, this contribution contends, higher education in prison is both a political and pedagogical strategy assisting democratization and active citizenship. This strategy sustains prisoners’ use of their right of resistance, validating the prerogatives of an individual in contrast to the central power structure present in the social order that is the prison.

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Policek, N. (2022). The Difficult Art of Higher Education Delivery in Prison. In: Harmes, M.K., Harmes, B., Harmes, M.A. (eds) Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86830-7_10

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