The ‘Inside’ Story
Practitioner Perspectives on Teaching in Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13895005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Irwin (0000-0003-0280-0637, University of Ulster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 512-528 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5527 • E-ISSN: 1468-2311 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2008.00536.x |
| OpenAlex | W2168551503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
The status of prison educational programmes is described as ‘marginal’ (Reuss 1999, p.114) and prisons are portrayed in the worst terms as ‘human dustbins’ (Parkinson 1997, p.16). Whilst inside accounts of prison life are rare (Scraton and Moore 2006) some ethnographic reports from practitioners working in prisons have been published (Reuss 1999, 2000, 2003; Pawson 2000). This article adds to the corpus, presenting a personal account of teaching based on six years' experience working in Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland. Successful pedagogical approaches as well as practical inconveniences faced daily by educationalists working in this environment are presented
Criminology · Ethnography · Pedagogy · Prison · Sociology · Anthropology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Freedom to Learn
Qualitative Research Interviewing
Taking a Long Hard Look at Imprisonment
Prison Lives
A Man's World
Routine Victimisation in Prisons
The State of the Prisons
Prison(er) Education
Prison Education in Northern Ireland
Degradation, Harm and Survival in a Women's Prison
Social exclusion and adult engagement in Lifelong Learning—some comparative implications for European states based on Ireland's Celtic Tiger experience
History, place and the learning society
Lifelong learning as a lever on structural change? Evaluation of white paper
Learning behind bars
Attitudes to Participation in Education of Adult Prisoners in HMP Maze (Compounds) and HMP Belfast
Radical adult education and learning
Sharing sociological stories
Improving learner outcomes in lifelong education
Lifting the hood
Social Capital
Men accessing education
Bar None
Why Study Women's Imprisonment? Or Anyone Else's
Criminal Justice in a Divided Society
Qualitative Data Analysis
What is Social Capital? A Study of Interaction in a Rural Community
The Intellectual Internment of a Conflict
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |