Journal article
Ghosts in the machine: incarcerated students and the digital university
Australian Universities' Review, Vol.57(2), pp.46-53
2015
Abstract
Providing higher education to offenders in custody has become an increasingly complex business in the age of digital learning. Most Australian prisoners still have no direct access to the internet and relatively unreliable access to information technology. As incarceration is now a business, prisons, like universities, are increasingly subject to economistic pressures and priorities. Historically Britain's penal colony, (post)modern Australia is following the United States toward a post-Welfare Penal state. Without specialised support and materials, incarcerated students may pay the price of converging neoliberal reforms. This paper aims to raise awareness among Australian academics of the challenges faced by incarcerated students in changing socio-political and economic climates.
Details
- Title
- Ghosts in the machine: incarcerated students and the digital university
- Authors
- Susan Hopkins (Corresponding Author) - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication details
- Australian Universities' Review, Vol.57(2), pp.46-53
- Publisher
- National Tertiary Education Union
- Date published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 0818-8068
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991136699702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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