A Race to the Bottom--Prison Education and the English and Welsh Policy Context

Autor/in	Czerniawski, Gerry
Titel	A Race to the Bottom--Prison Education and the English and Welsh Policy Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2016) 2, S.198-212 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2015.1062146
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Correctional Institutions; Civil Rights; Recidivism; Correctional Education; Institutionalized Persons; Teaching Methods; Public Policy; Educational Change; Neoliberalism; Standards; Policy Analysis; Retrenchment; Budgets; Social Justice; Information Technology; Adult Education; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Jugendstrafvollzug; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Rückfall; Fürsorgeerziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Öffentliche Ordnung; Bildungsreform; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Standard; Politikfeldanalyse; Finanzhaushalt; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Informationstechnologie; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	This article examines prison education in England and Wales arguing that a disjuncture exists between the policy rhetoric of entitlement to education in prison at the European level and the playing out of that entitlement in English and Welsh prisons. Caught between conflicting discourses around a need to combat recidivism and a need for incarceration, prison education in England exists within a policy context informed, in part, by an international human rights agenda on the one hand and global recession, financial cutbacks, and a moral panic about crime on the other. The European Commission has highlighted a number of challenges facing prison education in Europe including over-crowded institutions, increasing diversity in prison populations, the need to keep pace with pedagogical changes in mainstream education and the adoption of new technologies for learning. These are challenges confronting all policy makers involved in prison education in England and Wales in a policy context that is messy, contradictory and fiercely contested. The article argues that this policy context, exacerbated by socio-economic discourses around neo-liberalism, is leading to a race-to-the-bottom in the standards of educational provision for prisoners in England and Wales. (As Provided).
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