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Adult higher education in a portuguese prison

European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2017
Over the years, the European Union has strengthened measures that address the need to find answers to the challenges posed by the information society, which in turn underscores the importance of a focus on innovation of adult education, especially for ...
Ana Machado, Angélica Monteiro, José António Moreira   +2 more
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Higher Education in Prison

Critical Education, 2019
Since first publishing the Call for Papers for this volume (2017), we have spent more than two years “ruminating” with the twelve authors who have contributed to this project and many others in the higher education in prison community who have ...
Erin L. Castro, Mary R. Gould
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What is Higher Education in Prison? Introduction to Radical Departures: Ruminations on the Purposes of Higher Education in Prison

Critical Education, 2018
For far too long, “correctional education” has served as an umbrella framework for all educational opportunities offered inside prisons and jails throughout the United States. In community with students, scholars, and practitioners, we wish to engage and
Erin L. Castro, Mary Rachel Gould
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Evaluation of massive education in prison health: a perspective of health care for the person deprived of freedom in Brazil

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Education, with an emphasis on prison health, has acted as a policy inducing changes in work processes, which the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) has used, and which is present in permanent health education, which promotes health care for people ...
Janaína L. R. S. Valentim, Janaína L. R. S. Valentim, Sara Dias-Trindade, Sara Dias-Trindade, Eloiza S. G. Oliveira, Eloiza S. G. Oliveira, Manoel H. Romão, Felipe Fernandes, Alexandre R. Caitano, Marilyn A. A. Bonfim, Marilyn A. A. Bonfim, Aline P. Dias, Cristine M. G. Gusmão, Cristine M. G. Gusmão, Cristine M. G. Gusmão, Philippi S. G. Morais, Ronaldo S. Melo, Ronaldo S. Melo, Gustavo Fontoura de Souza, Kelson C. Medeiros, Maria C. F. D. Rêgo, Maria C. F. D. Rêgo, Ricardo B. Ceccim, Ricardo B. Ceccim, Ricardo A. M. Valentim   +24 more
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Beyond Recidivism: The Value of Higher Education in Prison

Critical Education, 2019
In 2016, the Obama administration launched the Second Chance Pell Grant, a pilot program that provides funding to eligible state and federal prisoners as they pursue undergraduate degrees during the period of their incarceration.
Jill McCorkel, Robert DeFina
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The tutor as a bridge to the right to higher education in prison

Formare
Access to university education in Italian prisons has grown steadily over the past decades through the establishment of prison university centres, the Poli Universitari Penitenziari (PUP) (University Penitentiary Centres), enabling an increasing number ...
Luca Decembrotto, Giulia De Rocco
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PEP-Hep: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a prison education programme to improve hepatitis B and C testing uptake and treatment initiation in Ghana – A study protocol [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction Viral hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infections remain major public health threats in Ghana, with prevalence rates significantly higher in prison populations than in the general population.
Gladys Dzansi, Vivian Efua Senoo-Dogbey, Monica Charlotte Akpagloh, Delali Adwoa Wuaku, Irene Owusu Darkwa, Augustina Ama Boadu, Darko Ashiley Michael, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Prosper Junior Anatsui   +8 more
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“Please Read”: Correspondence on Race in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic bifurcated and disrupted the 2019 and 2020 academic years. Moving forward it seems clear that we will delineate our time in terms of “before the pandemic” and “after the pandemic.” This distinction resonates with faculty and alumni
Anthony Rhodd, Heather Erwin
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Second Chance and the Human Right to Learn

Critical Education, 2023
This article substantiates the need for consolidated government support and coordination of postsecondary correctional education in the United States.
Ragnhild Utheim
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON IN SPAIN: THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS ABOUT SCHOOL DROPOUT

Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación, 2022
School dropout is a major problem both for distance universities offering studies in prison and for students who are unable to fulfil the future expectations placed in them.
Antonio Viedma Rojas, Diego Ruedas Torres   +1 more
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