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Does school prepare men for prison
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In this paper, a piece of research that takes a different view is presented, grounded in the critical sociology of education that exposes the inherently unequal nature of education systems, the role of education in maintaining and legitimising persistent social inequalities, and the exercise of disciplinary power through the linked institutions of school and prison.Abstract:
The potential link between educational ‘failure’ and offending is perennially debated. Research and popular discourses tend to focus on the ‘disadvantaged’ family backgrounds from which the children who fail come. This paper summarises a piece of research that takes a different view. It is grounded in the critical sociology of education that exposes the inherently unequal nature of education systems, the role of education in maintaining and legitimising persistent social inequalities, and the exercise of disciplinary power through the linked institutions of school and prison. It aims to utilise these theoretical frameworks to reignite an interest in the fundamental problems of schooling. It achieves this through the specific focus on the marginalised ‘naughty kids' who often become the prison population of the future. The researcher worked as a teacher in adult male prisons in the UK, and data collected during 200+ brief induction interviews suggested that the experience of schooling was more significant ...read more
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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Young People and Alternative Provision: Perspectives from Participatory--Collaborative Evaluations in Three UK Local Authorities.
TL;DR: The authors report the complexity of needs amongst children and young people, the continuing problem of unsuccessful transitions between key phases/stages of education and the profound consequences of this for young people; assumptions around mainstream reintegration and managed moves; and the curriculum challenges of vocationalism and academic emphasis.
Learning Together: Localism, Collaboration and Reflexivity in the Development of Prison and University Learning Communities
TL;DR: The authors argue that there is a case to be made for partnership working between higher education and criminal justice institutions, and make the case for open-textured theoretical and empirical reflexivity.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977
Michel Foucault,Colin Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: The Eye of Power: A Discussion with Maoists as mentioned in this paper discusses the politics of health in the Eighteenth Century, the history of sexuality, and the Confession of the Flesh.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole as discussed by the authors.