ERIC Number: EJ847148
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Dec
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The Unity in Community: Fostering Academic Success among Diverse Communities of Male Offenders in Correctional Institutions
Rose, Jane E.; Voss, Maxilynn
Journal of Correctional Education, v54 n4 p131-159 Dec 2003
Two post-secondary correctional educators discuss how they have enhanced the rehabilitation of a diverse population of adult male offenders, including whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, by incorporating diversity initiatives into their instruction and curricula at two correctional facilities in Northwest Indiana. One way is to form moral communities, like those prescribed by Clifford Edwards, by fostering collaboration through teamwork and by providing opportunities for offender students to contribute to their academic community as, for example, academic tutors and computer lab monitors. Another way is to hold offender students to high learning outcomes and to facilitate their learning by treating them respectfully and fairly and by teaching them how to interact successfully and democratically in an often hostile, yet culturally diversified, environment/community. Finally, a liberal arts curriculum enhances the development of critical thinking skills and values for the global workplace.
Descriptors: Males, Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Academic Achievement, Student Diversity, Multicultural Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Cooperation, Administrator Role, Teacher Role, Teaching Styles
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indiana
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