Schedule conflict / Alex Bolling -- Transformation and redemption : a personal narrative from a position of lived experience / Ginny Oshiro -- The freedom and captivity curriculum project / Linda Small -- Transforming lives through prison higher education / Jeffrey Stein -- Humanizing the numbers : a photographic collaboration / Jamal Biggs and Isaac Wingfield -- Scaling walls : dismantling asymmetries through empowering song / AndreĢ de Quadros, Wayland "X" Coleman, and Krystal Morin -- "Disappearing acts" and education as the practice of freedom : feminist pedagogy in carceral spaces / Laura E. Ciolkowski -- The brutal stories that connect us / Joshua Fernandez -- Matters of life and death : art, education, and activism on death row / Robin Paris, Tom Williams, Barbara Yonz -- An achingly realized sunset : the importance of prison creative writing / Jason Kahler -- Transcommunal peace, cooperation, and respect for diversity : a university/prison multi-partnership approach / John Brown Childs, Flora Lu, and Sarah Woodside Bury -- Writing about art / Duston Spear -- Beyond this door : photographic vision and carceral experience / Evan Hume -- Why French : fear and freedom in stepping outside our languages / Cecelia Ramsey -- Pushing back/pushing forward : embracing the margins to build non-punitive learning environments in Canadian correctional facilities / Nicole Patrie -- Excursion and return : exploring transformative texts, great questions, and the human experience in the prison classroom / Dale Brown -- The poem. The painting. us. / Kyes Stevens -- Building bridges through prison-university partnerships / Emma Hughes -- Research within correctional arts and education / Brian Heisterkamp, Bryant Jackson-Green, Ginny Oshiro, and Annie Buckley -- Reimagining our futures : the beginning, middle and end of the digital higher education journey for incarcerated learners / Helen Farley and Stephen Seymour -- Structuring the conduit : expanding prison-university partnerships through the readers' circle / Keziah Poole and Rowan A. Bayne -- An octopus in the scaffolding : ten years with prison arts collective / Annie Buckley.
Summary:
"Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of correctional education programs for students in correctional settings that often result in mutual learning among both populations. From arts and education courses offered in the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project at Auburn University to a degree granting program at the state prison in Lancaster with California State University, Los Angeles, and many more inspiring, innovative, and change-making programs, individuals and communities across multiple disciplines in higher education are actively breaking the cycle of shame and division inherent in mass incarceration through direct engagement. This book explores these programs through the lens of the artists, scholars, practitioners, and faculty that have launched and facilitate them and demonstrate the diverse ways in which interventions and partnerships can take shape and the impacts that they have on the lives of those involved. Throughout, the book features the voices of people with lived experience among faculty and students. Section One highlights the voices of students who are currently or formerly incarcerated while Section Two addresses diverse ways of collaborative through and across systems of corrections and education. Section Three features the voices of teaching artists while section four includes those that start and lead these programs, offering maps for others. Demonstrating the ways that higher education can intervene in and disrupt the deeply traumatic experience of incarceration and shift the embedded social-emotional cycles that lead to recidivism, this book is both inspiration and guide for those seeking to create and sustain programs as well as to educate students about the types of programs universities bring to prisons"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.