Beyond School-to-Prison Pipeline and toward an Educational and Penal Realism

Autor/inn/en	Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J.; Mitchell, Roland W.; Martin, Lori L.; Bennett-Haron, Karen P.
Titel	Beyond School-to-Prison Pipeline and toward an Educational and Penal Realism
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 47 (2014) 4, S.410-429 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
DOI	10.1080/10665684.2014.959285
Schlagwörter	Correctional Institutions; At Risk Students; Juvenile Justice; Correctional Education; Critical Theory; Race; Racial Bias; Institutionalized Persons; African American Students; Minority Group Students; Economically Disadvantaged; Economic Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugendstrafvollzug; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Fürsorgeerziehung; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	Much scholarly attention has been paid to the school-to-prison pipeline and the sanitized discourse of "death by education," called the achievement gap. Additionally, there exists a longstanding discourse surrounding the alleged crisis of educational failure. This article offers no solutions to the crisis and suggests instead that the system is functioning as it was intended--to disenfranchise many (predominately people of color) for the benefit of some (mostly white), based on economic principals of the free market. We begin by tracing the economic interests of prisons and the prison industrial complex, juxtaposing considerations of what we call the "educational reform industrial complex." With a baseline in the economic interests of school failure and prison proliferation, we draw on the critical race theory concept of "racial realism," to work toward a theory of educational and penal realism. Specifically, we outline seven working tenets of educational and penal realism that provide promise in redirecting the discourse about schools and prisons empowering those interested in critically engaging issues of racism that permeate U.S. orientations to education and justice. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10