Abstract
This article describes a typical college course that was taught in a youth correctional facility. The course combined traditional college students and inmates from the prison. Over the course of 15 weeks both groups grew to understand one another and themselves. The article seeks to illustrate the realities related both to fear and success in such an undertaking. This collaborative model between colleges and correctional facilities has promise as a model for prison education.
Highlights
I have been teaching at a small liberal arts college in the United States for seven years
My students are preparing to become teachers and they fit the dominant mold of pre-service teachers – they are largely female, white, middle class, Christian, heterosexual, nondisabled, and their own schooling experiences have been very monocultural
The typical college students were largely coming from very monocultural, middle class backgrounds, and expecting them to make big strides in their ideas about the inmates was unlikely
Summary
I have been teaching at a small liberal arts college in the United States for seven years. Each week 15 students from my college and I would drive to this prison and hold class with 15 inmates. This paper will discuss how the group dynamics supported growth for both the inmates and the typical college students.
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