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Degrees of freedom : prison education at The Open University /
The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 40 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received, offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignet...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Openings and introductions: education for the many, prison for the few
- 2. From prisoner to student
- Vignette 1: Choosing my journey
- 3. Pioneers and politics: Open University journeys in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972-75
- Vignette 2: Avoiding the mind-numbing vortex of drivel ...
- 4. A university without walls
- Vignette 3: Starting a new chapter
- 5. Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future
- Vignette 4: Out of the abysmal
- 6. The light to fight the shadows: on education as liberation
- 7. From despair to hope
- Vignette 5: Making my commitment
- 8. Straight up! From HMP to PhD
- 9. From Open University in prison to convict criminology upon release: mind the gap
- Vignette 6: Message to a prisoner
- 10. From the school of hard knocks to the university of hard locks
- 11. Becoming me with The Open University
- Vignette 7: Catching up with Kafka
- 12. From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish journey
- Vignette 8: My journey, my new life
- 13. Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education
- Vignette 9: Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea?
- 14. What the OU did for me
- Appendix: Study with The Open University
- Index
- Back cover