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Creating Activating Events for Transformative Learning in a Prison Classroom
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Keen, Cheryl H.; Woods, Robert – Journal of Transformative Education, 2016
In this article, we interpreted, in light of Mezirow's theory of transformative learning, interviews with 13 educators regarding their work with marginalized adult learners in prisons in the northeastern United States. Transformative learning may have been aided by the educators' response to unplanned activating events, humor, and respect, and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Teaching Methods
Correctional Education as Democratic Citizenship Education
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Cantrell, Dustin – Journal of Correctional Education, 2012
Many educators view the process of education as transformative. This transformation is important in all classrooms, but it takes on added importance in prison classrooms. The education that inmates receive in prison can mean the difference between the doorway of freedom with a productive future and the revolving door of recidivism. For many prison…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Correctional Institutions
Correctional Education as Democratic Citizenship Education
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Cantrell, Dustin – Journal of Correctional Education, 2013
Many educators view the process of education as transformative. This transformation is important in all classrooms, but it takes on added importance in prison classrooms. The education that inmates receive in prison can mean the difference between the doorway of freedom with a productive future and the revolving door of recidivism. For many prison…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Democratic Values