{"title":"Education and transformation: an argument for college in prison","authors":"Carmen Heider, K. Lehman","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I9.186361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I9.186361","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the dynamics of what it means to learn inside of a prison by featuring a narrative written by an individual who has been incarcerated for more than 20 years. The narrative explores the challenges and successes of earning a baccalaureate degree while in prison, including highlights from several courses and the overall significance of the college experience. The essay then features a dialogue between the incarcerated author and a university professor who teaches a course at the prison. The essay as a whole underscores the value of higher education in prison and the importance of supporting these types of programs.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76339827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical, Legal, and Pedagogical Issues in edTPA","authors":"K. Gilbert, Nai-Cheng Kuo","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I8.186418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I8.186418","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to address ethical, legal, and pedagogical issues in the use of edTPA, a mandatory and consequential assessment required for teacher candidates in many states. We discuss issues such as the cost of edTPA, implicit bias in scoring teacher candidates, marginalization in K-12 settings, property rights, privacy, and disconnections between the real classroom and what teacher candidates are asked to do in edTPA. At the end of the paper we make three suggestions. First, edTPA can be used as a learning progression assessment, but not a high-stakes assessment. Second, private publishers should play an assistive role, not a dominant role, in teacher education. Third, educators should examine the rubrics of edTPA within and across disciplines to reduce inappropriate practices.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"46 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82237543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Recidivism: The Value of Higher Education in Prison","authors":"J. McCorkel, R. Defina","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I7.186316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I7.186316","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, the Obama administration launched the Second Chance Pell Grant, a pilot program that provides funding to eligible state and federal prisoners as they pursue undergraduate degrees during the period of their incarceration. The initiative represents the first meaningful effort to restore some of the educational opportunities eliminated from state and federal prisons in the mid 1990s. The administration justified the restoration of education programs in prison in terms of recidivism rates, citing research that demonstrates that educational attainment decreases the odds that a prisoner is reincarcerated for new crimes or parole violations following his or her release. While recidivism is a critical consideration in the restoration of prison higher education, it is not and should not be the only one. In this article, we describe our experience as faculty and administrators of Villanova University’s undergraduate degree program at SCI-Graterford, the largest maximum security prison in Pennsylvania. We argue that education is a fundamental right that is not comprised by criminal conviction or imprisonment. Higher education in prison enhances self-knowledge and empathy, bolsters social capital and collective efficacy, and facilitates the development of just and democratic communities both inside and outside prison walls.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73690690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideology of Neo-fascism, Education, and Culture of Peace. The Empirical Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"Goran Bašić, Zlatan Delić, Halima Sofradžija","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I6.186410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I6.186410","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to critically analyse intellectual conditions for education pertaining to the empirical and normative knowledge dimensions that can oppose the ideologies of neo-fascism. ...","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79163706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophical Implications of Taxpayer Funding for Prison Education","authors":"Jason Harnish","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I5.186298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I5.186298","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to address the question of whether it is fair to use US taxpayer dollars on prison education programs. Through a philosophical inquiry from a pragmatist lens and a feminine ethic of care, issues of fairness are clarified. Following the philosophical inquiry, a historical analysis provides some background on the issue of prison history and reform movements in America. Finally, I conclude by briefly highlighting the main arguments in favor of funding prison education programs with US tax payer dollars.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"204 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72542525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Common Vision Realized: Holistic Educators’ and Utopian Visionaries’ Ideas Brought to Life","authors":"K. Morrison","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I4.186409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I4.186409","url":null,"abstract":"This article will explore the common educational vision of two distinct groups — holistic educators and American utopian authors of late-19th to mid/late-20th century — and then propose that this joint vision, along with its actualization in a variety of forms of alternative education (e.g. unschooling, democratic free schooling, Montessori and Waldorf schools, etc.) is positive evidence of a “self-organizing revolution” (Miller, 2008). This revolution is working to challenge dominant educational paradigms, and should serve as a source of hope for many who despair that more idealistic visions of education will never come to be in our country.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75022570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blocking the Bathroom: Latino Students and the Spatial Arrangements of Student Discipline","authors":"Mariama Gray","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I2.186371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I2.186371","url":null,"abstract":"In this ethnographic study of student discipline in California, I examine the spatial arrangements of the disproportionate discipline, surveillance, and banishment of Latino boys who were constructed as gang members from school and community spaces. Drawing on socio-cultural geographical theories, I argue that negative discourses, and implicit bias, together with increased surveillance in school and public space(s) contributed to the disproportionate discipline of Latino male students.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73900310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Re-imagining of Evaluation as Social Justice: A Discussion of the Education Justice Project","authors":"A. Boyce","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I1.186323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I1.186323","url":null,"abstract":"While efforts to increase access to higher education for incarcerated populations are laudable, the prominent discourse, rationale, and examined outcomes are narrowly defined. Too often program evaluations, especially those within criminal justice contexts, implicitly prescribe values and condone oppressive policies, while claiming neutrality through methodology. What is needed are evaluation frameworks and theories born in opposition to the current ‘gold standard’, which currently fails to consider conditions linked to the many structural inequities of society, and misses the opportunity to advocate for social justice. This paper presents a restorative justice approach to evaluation, conceptualized to address the complex socio-political and cultural dynamics of educational programs within prisons, and as way to bring stakeholders together to generate new meaning and understanding. Vignettes are utilized to illustrate what a restorative justice approach to evaluation might look like within the case example of the Education Justice Project, a higher education program within prison.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73060213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I Guess I Just Realized How Tired I Had Become\": In Defense of Insurgent Pedagogy","authors":"Brian C. Gibbs","doi":"10.14288/CE.V10I10.186419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V10I10.186419","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript details how four self-described justice-oriented teachers, teaching social studies in urban schools maintained, defended, and expanded their teaching in unsupported environments. All four teachers are veteran educators who teach intentionally chose their school sites deliberately and can all be labeled activist educators, though one uncomfortably. Taken from a larger 5 year study, this article seeks to describe the actions taken by four teachers during the first two years of the study who teach in similar socio-economic, geographic and school spaces and who all attended the same justice oriented teacher education program. These four teachers prove that it is possible to teach for social justice in unsupportive schools but also indicate that are costs. These costs raise serious questions about the sustainability of their efforts over time.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91310146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Reducing Recidivism via College-in-Prison: Thoughts on Data Collection, Methodology, and the Question of Purpose","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.14288/CE.V9I18.186303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CE.V9I18.186303","url":null,"abstract":"Conversations about reducing recidivism can be reductionist. This paper introduces strategies by which college-in-prison programs can collect post-release data on their students, as well as the research methods necessary to make predictive claims about the impact of such work. The question is raised: is reducing recidivism the purpose of college-in-prison? Following some speculation about the prevalence of this narrative, the paper concludes with some thoughts about alternative justifications for college-in-prison.","PeriodicalId":10808,"journal":{"name":"Critical Education","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88260628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}