An Educator's Dilemma

Autor/in	Rogensues, Angela
Titel	An Educator's Dilemma
Quelle	In: Adult Learning, 17 (2006) 1-4, S.31-33 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1045-1595
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Females; Correctional Education; Correctional Institutions; Educational Change; Institutionalized Persons; Correctional Rehabilitation; Adult Education; Adult Educators; Educational Practices; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Fürsorgeerziehung; Jugendstrafvollzug; Bildungsreform; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungspraxis; USA
Abstract	Every day the author enters a world of hierarchy that she cannot fully comprehend--a world in which she is expected to teach, transform, and rehabilitate incarcerated women into "productive" citizens. It is a world where political forces blow powerfully on anyone that challenges the status quo. She works with a population that most Americans wish would disappear. She works with the women inmates at a correctional facility's "Community Reintegration Program" located in an urban area of the Midwestern United States. As with most correctional facilities, it's a place of crisis and control; it's an environment with conditions suitable for radical change, but rarely used as such. This essay is meant to be the beginning of a conversation around alternatives to teaching a growing and specialized population. If people continue to base their expectations of prison reform on middle class white mores and disregard the needs of the poor minority women being served, people, as a society, will continue to be disappointed. People will be disappointed in persons who never met expectations they didn't agree to meet, and in which they perceive no value. As a result, people will continue to perceive these women as the "problem" rather than citizens whom society has failed. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. 10111 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway Suite 200C, Bowie, MD 20720. Tel: 301-459-6261; Fax: 301-459-6241; e-mail: aaace10@aol.com; Web site: http://www.aaace.org/publications/index.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10