Degrees of Freedom: Prison Education at the Open University

ISBN-13: 9781447353065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

James Mehigan; Rod Earle

Spis treści

Openings and Introductions: Education for the many, prison for the few ~ Rod Earle and James Mehigan From Prisoner to Student ~ Anne Pike and Ruth McFarlane Vignette 1: Choosing my journey – Kamal Abdul Pioneers and Politics: Open University Journeys in British and Irish prisons in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972-1975 ~ Philip O’Sullivan & Gabi Kent Vignette 2: Avoiding the mind-numbing vortex of drivel … – Thomas A University Without Walls ~ Dan Weinbren Vignette 3: Starting a new chapter – Mr C.T. Morgans Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future ~ Rod Earle & James Mehigan Vignette 4: Out of the abysmal – ‘Eris’ The Light to Fight The Shadows: On Education as Liberation ~ Kris McPherson From Despair to Hope ~ Margaret Gough Vignette 5: Making my commitment – Razib Quraishi Straight up! From HMP to PhD ~ Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski From Open University in Prison to Convict Criminology Upon Release: Mind the Gap ~ Michael Irwin Vignette 6: Message to a prisoner – Gordon McDonald From the School of Hard Knocks to the University of Hard Locks ~ Abdulhaq Al-Wazeer Becoming Me with The Open University ~ Edwin Screeche-Powell Vignette 7: Catching up with Kafka – Steven Taylor From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish Journey ~ Laurence McKeown Vignette 8: My journey, my new life – Dan Micklethwaite Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education ~ David Honeywell Vignette 9: Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea? – Alan Jermey What the OU did for me ~ Erwin James Appendix 1: Study with the OU