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A major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond ‘basic skills', and at a time when prison regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses.Edited by two leading experts on prison education in the United Kingdom - Professor David Wilson of the University of Central England (a former prison governor and co-presenter of BBC TV's Crime Squad), and Dr Anne Reuss of the University of Abertay (who previously taught at HM Prison Full Sutton).Weaving anecdote, research and evaluation, Prison(er) Education presents for the first time a comprehensive account of education inside British prisons. At the heart of the book lies the question‘Who is prison education for: prison or prisoners?'This book is a major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond'basic skills', and at a time when regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Weaving anecdote with solid research and evaluation, the book presents for the first time in Britain a comprehensive account of education inside prisons.

Author

Wilson, David; Reuss, Anne

Publisher

Waterside Press, International Specialized Book Services [distributor

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781906534592

Subjects

Science, Education, Social Science