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A Prisoners' Island: Teaching Australian Incarcerated Students in the Digital Age
Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, Vol.1(1), pp.42-51
2014
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.
Details
- Title
- A Prisoners' Island: Teaching Australian Incarcerated Students in the Digital Age
- Authors
- Susan Hopkins (Corresponding Author) - University of Southern QueenslandHelen Farley (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication details
- Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, Vol.1(1), pp.42-51
- Publisher
- VCU Publishing
- Date published
- 2014
- ISSN
- 2387-2306
- Copyright note
- Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991141840202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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