Stem Education in Us Prisons

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68862-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25/10, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education / Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education: Distinguished Contributors

Renewal of higher-education programs in US prisons creates a need for science education. This is the first book to address STEM education in prisons in the United States. It calls on activist science teachers to develop innovative ways to teach in challenging carceral settings.

Over the last fifty years, science education and prison education have moved in different directions, one expanding and the other contracting. This book brings these educational endeavors into cooperative engagement. Democratic citizenship opens opportunities for all people, irrespective of civil status, to study science. The book presents student narratives and case studies emphasizing the achievements of STEM education behind prison walls. STEM education equity can help address the deep social inequities that mass incarceration creates and magnifies.

Contributors are: Cassandra Barrett, Andrew Bell, George Bogner, Adrian Borealis, Drew Bush, Kelli Bush, Sandy Chang, Kelle Dhein, Amalia Handler, Steven Hart, Steven Henderson, Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Paul Kazelis, Joe Lockard, Edward Mei, Tsafrir Mor, Rob Scott, Laura Taylor, Joslyn Rose Trivett and Emily Webb.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lockard, Joe

Mor, Tsafrir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Science Education in Prisons

Joe Lockard and Tsafrir Mor

1 From Subject to Student: Science, Science Education, and Citizenship in US Prisons

Joe Lockard

PART 1: Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Voices for Science

2 First-Person Experiences of Science in Prison: Writings from the Sustainability in Prisons Project

Joslyn Rose Trivett

3 Waiting for Take-Off: Obstacles to Pursuing a Post-Incarceration STEM Career

George Bogner

4 Eliminating Stigma by Creating STEM Accessibility

Paul Kazelis

5 Challenges to STEM Education in Prison: An Inside Perspective

Steven W. Henderson

PART 2: Biology Inside

6 Environmental Constraints and Development of Solutions: The Evolution of a Prison Biology Education Program

Steven G. Hart, Emily A. Webb, Kelle Dhein, Amalia M. Handler, Cassandra M. Barrett and Tsafrir S. Mor

7 Teaching Incarcerated Students Quantitative Reasoning through a Gateway Environmental Science Course

Drew Bush and Andrew Bell

PART 3: STEM Education: An Inside/Outside Continuum

8 Strategies for Effective Laboratory Design in Medium-Maximum Security Penitentiaries

Laura Taylor, Adrian Borealis and Tiffany Hensley-McBain

9 Re-entry to STEM: Hurdles and Opportunities

Sandy Chang

10 Effects of Higher Education in Prison on STEM Educators

Robert Scott and Edward Mei

PART 4: Call for Science Education in Prisons

Call for Science Education in Prisons

Joe Lockard and Tsafrir Mor

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Lockard, Ph.D. (2000), University of California-Berkeley, is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He taught poetry workshops for years in prisons and has published extensively on prison literature.

Tsafrir Mor, Ph.D. (1997), Hebrew University, is Professor at Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences and Biodesign Institute. He founded the ASU Prison Biology Program and teaches students on campus and incarcerated students in prison.