A Prisoners' Island: Teaching Australian Incarcerated Students in the Digital Age

Autor/inn/en	Hopkins, Susan; Farley, Helen
Titel	A Prisoners' Island: Teaching Australian Incarcerated Students in the Digital Age
Quelle	In: Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 1 (2014) 1, S.42-51 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2387-2306
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Institutionalized Persons; Correctional Institutions; Correctional Education; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Barriers; Higher Education; Focus Groups; Participant Observation; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Partnerships in Education; Program Effectiveness; College Faculty; School Community Programs; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Jugendstrafvollzug; Fürsorgeerziehung; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Telekommunikationstechnik; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Fakultät; Australien
Abstract	While incarcerated students have always faced many obstacles to full and effective participation in university study, the global shift toward paperless e-learning environments has created new challenges for prisoners without direct internet access. Based on prison focus groups with Australian incarcerated students and direct participant observation while tutoring tertiary students within four Queensland correctional centres, this paper explores the obstacles and constraints faced by incarcerated students in light of the increasing digitisation of materials and methods in higher education. This paper also reviews the outcomes, limitations and challenges of recent Australian projects trialling new internet-independent technologies developed to improve access for incarcerated tertiary students. This paper argues that technology-centred approaches alone will not adequately address the challenges of access for incarcerated students unless such interventions are also informed by an understanding of the sociocultural nature of learning and teaching within correctional centres. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Prison Education and Reentry. Jonas Liesvei 91, N5009 Bergen, Norway. Web site: https://jper.uib.no/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01