1st Edition
Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall
Introduction
[Rebecca Ginsburg]
Part 1. The Context
Chapter 1. An Open Letter to Prison Educators
[Malakki (Ralph Bolden)]
Chapter 2. Hope for Leaving a Legacy
[Russell X]
Chapter 3. Repairing the Generations: Prison Higher Education as Historical Reparations
[Doran Larson]
Chapter 4. Pedagogy of the Offender
[Dennis "Justice" Simpson II]
Chapter 5. A Nice Outfit
[Kim Erbe]
Chapter 6. From Africa to High Desert State Prison: Journeys of an Invisible Teacher
[James Kilgore]
Part 2. In the Classroom
Chapter 7. The Perils of Transformation Talk in Higher Education in Prison
[Raphael Ginsberg]
Chapter 8. On the Practice and Ethos of Self-Compassion for Higher Educators in Prisons
[Thomas Fabisiak]
Chapter 9. Beyond Progress: Indigenous Scholars, Relational Methodologies, and Decolonial Options for the Prison Classroom
[Anna Plemons]
Chapter 10. Shout, Sister Shout: Embodied Pedagogy in Creative Writing Classrooms
[Sarah Shotland]
Chapter 11. "Go Hard": Bringing Privilege-Industry Pedagogies into a College Writing Classroom in Prison
[Stacy Bell]
Chapter 12. Women’s Writing Groups Inside: Healing, Resistance, and Change
[Susan Castagnetto and Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley]
Chapter 13. Writing for Reentry: A Few Lessons from Transfer Theory
[Maggie Shelledy]
Chapter 14. Untimeliness; or, What Can Happen in the Waiting
[Anne Dalke, with Jody Cohen]
Chapter 15. Teaching American History in Prison
[Margaret Garb]
Chapter 16. The Prison Oppresses: Avoiding the False Us/Them Binary in Prison Education
[Victoria Bryan]
Chapter 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
[Jerrad Allen and Osvaldo Armas]
Chapter 18. Healing Pedagogy from the Inside Out: The Paradox of Liberatory Education in Prison
[Tessa Hicks Peterson]
Chapter 19. Schools, Prisons, and Higher Education
[R. Ralston]
List of Contributors
Biography
Rebecca Ginsburg is Associate Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Education Justice Project at the University of Illinois, USA.
