Recently added articles from Journal of Correctional Education:
Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dear Editor: I must take exception to the discussion section regarding motivation in the Journal's December 2008 article "Correctional Education from the Perspective of the Prisoner Student" by Hall and Killacky. The authors generalize motivation findings in ...
United States Department of Education update.
Mar 01, 2009; ... 2009 midwinter chills were muted in Washington D.C. this year by the excitement surrounding our Nation's orderly transfer of leadership, the culmination of an extended national election cycle. In the federal agencies, career staff have bid farewell to officials of the former administration ...
Report from the European Prison Education Association.
Mar 01, 2009; ... European Prison Education Association International Conference 2009 The 12th International European Prison Education Association (EPEA) conference will take place in Cyprus from 29th October to 1st November 2009. The conference title is Liberation through Education. The ...
Parenting education for incarcerated mothers.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Parenting Education for Incarcerated Mothers Parenting education for incarcerated parents cannot be a duplicate of programs for parents who are at home raising their children. Parenting from prison is altogether different from parenting on the outside (Loper & Tuerk, 2006) ....
Janie Porter Barrett (1865-1948): exemplary African American correctional educator.(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... <Pre>Do precisely the opposite to what is usually done, and you will havehit on the right plan. (Rousseau, in Quick, 1916, p. 241) Surely, then, if the present system has totally failed, there mustbe something radically wrong in it, and it ought to be changed....
Choral singing and prison inmates: influences of performing in a prison choir.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The purpose of these two experiments was to compare well-being measurements between a group of prison inmates singing in a choir and prison inmates not singing in a choir. Using the Friedman Well-Being Scale (FWBS) as the dependent measure, measurements were taken before and after ...
If I could only say it myself: how to communicate with children of incarcerated parents.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... If I Could Only Say It Myself: How to Communicate with Children of Incarcerated Parents Introduction and Problem The issue of increase in crime and the ways to handle it appropriately by the criminal justice system remains at the center of public discourse ....
United States Department of Education update.
Dec 01, 2008; ... I'm pleased to share news that Zina Watkins has joined the Office of Correctional Education. Zina is a recent graduate of the prestigious Presidential Management Fellows Program--a program designed to bring the best and brightest to federal service. She worked most recently in the ...
Report from the European Prison Education Association.(Conference news)
Dec 01, 2008; ... EPEA International Conference 2009 In the last edition of the Journal, I informed readers that 12th European Prison Education Association International conference will take place in Cyprus from 29, October to 1, November, 2009. The opening date for applications will be 1, ...
Correctional Education from the perspective of the prisoner student.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction Approximately two million men and women are currently incarcerated in the nation's penitentiaries (Butterfield, 2002). Ninety percent of these inmates will eventually be released from prison (Linton, 2004). The vast majority of these inmates enter prison without ...
From spheres of civility to public spheres: democracy and citizenship in the Big House (Part II).(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction: Civility and Democracy There have been many calls for the formation of just and democratic communities in prisons. This is not simply a utopian vision. Historically, there are examples of democratic innovations in prisons, where inmates have been able to exercise ...
A pilot study of the efficacy of two adult basic literacy programs for incarcerated males.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... A Pilot Study of the Efficacy of Two Adult Basic Literacy Programs for Incarcerated Males In the United States at the end of 2005, more than 7 million adults were in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2007). Over 1.4 million are ...
Radical conversations: Part Two--cultivating social-constructivist learning methods in ABE classrooms.(adult basic education)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction to Part Two: The Argument for Social-Constructivist Methods Social-constructivists view learning as primarily social, and entrust learners to interpret life experiences for themselves. Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) challenged and extended the Piagetian view of knowledge ...
United States Department of Education Update
Dec 01, 2008; ... I'm pleased to share news that Zina Watkins has joined the Office of Correctional Education. Zina is a recent graduate of the prestigious Presidential Management Fellows Program - a program designed to bring the best and brightest to federal service. She worked most recently in the Congressional ...
Report from the European Prison Education Association
Dec 01, 2008; ... EPEA International Conference 2009 In the last edition of the Journal, I informed readers that 12th European Prison Education Association International conference will take place in Cyprus from 29, October to 1, November, 2009. The opening date for applications will be 1, January 2009 ....
Correctional Education from the Perspective of the Prisoner Student
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction Approximately two million men and women are currently incarcerated in the nation's penitentiaries (Butterfield, 2002). Ninety percent of these inmates will eventually be released from prison (Linton, 2004). The vast majority of these inmates enter prison without basic ...
From Spheres of Civility to Public Spheres: Democracy and Citizenship in the Big House (Part II)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract Prisons are usually oppressive, bureaucratic, alienating places that sever or suspend the prisoner's sense of community and restrict the possibility (or desire) for social and civic participation. They produce a nihilistic culture that encourages a numbing detachment from ...
A Pilot Study of the Efficacy of Two Adult Basic Literacy Programs for Incarcerated Males
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two adult basic reading programs, Direct Instruction Corrective Reading Decoding and Laubach Literacy, on the reading achievement of incarcerated male adults (n = 27) in an Alabama prison. Participants were tutors and ...
Radical Conversations: Part Two-Cultivating Social-Constructivist Learning Methods in ABE Classrooms
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract In many U.S. prisons an overuse of individualized instruction silences literacy learners and reinforces oppressive notions about what knowledge is and whose knowledge counts. In these classrooms, methods that invite learners to tap their background knowledge, reflect on their ...
Letter from CEA and the journal editor.(Correctional Education Association)
Sep 01, 2008; ... There are two important announcement s regarding the Journal of Correctional Education that we would like to share with CEA members. First, the Journal publishes a "Special Topics" issue every June. This issue enables Journal and CEA leadership to focus on an issue of special ...