The transformative journey of higher education in prison : a class of one /
This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education. By pairing Lyle May's engaging first-person account with current scholarly literature,...
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New York :
Routledge,
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: the school-to-prison pipeline
- Dysfunctional learning
- Institutional learning
- Class dismissed
- Part 2: moral panic: abandoning the rehabilitative ideal
- Uneducated
- The opportunity
- Returning to the classroom
- Part 3: the intrinsic value of higher education: resilience and resistance
- Choosing higher education
- Class of one
- Associate degree
- Part 4: convict criminology, penal populism, and why restoring the rehabilitative ideal in prison is not as
- Simple as the return of Pell Grant access
- Programs
- Cultural shift
- Learning environment
- Challenging the narrative
- Networking.