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Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities

Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities

Plemons, Anna
Arola, Kristin L.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

CriminologyGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0814134653
ISBN13: 9780814134658
Publisher: Natl Council Of Teachers Of En
Published: Nov 3 2019
Pages: 185
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms.

When viewed as a microcosm of the broader enterprise, the prison classroom highlights the way that composition and rhetoric as a discipline continues to make use of colonial ways of knowing and being that work against the decolonial intentions of the field. Plemons suggests that a truly decolonial turn in composition cannot be achieved as long as economic logics and rhetorics of individual transformation continue to be the default currency for ascribing value in prison writing programs specifically and in out-of-school writing communities more generally. Indigenous scholarship provides the theoretical basis for Plemons's proposed intervention in the ways it both pushes back against individualized, economic assessments of value and describes design principles for research and pedagogy that are respectful, reciprocal, and relational.

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