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Deficits to assets: Re-imagining a strength-based model of prison education
08 June 2022, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Join this event looking at whether prisoners’ attributes and skills should be valued, supported, and built upon in order to facilitate a shift towards a strengths-based model of prison education and how might this look in a post-COVID era.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Keri Wong
In a change from well-known deficit narratives where people in prison are seen in relation to what they can’t do, this seminar will explore how we might rethink education / employment / training in relation to prisoners’ strengths - including those adopted through navigating the streets, criminal spaces, everyday prison life, and other sites of exclusion.
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Speakers
- Dr Cormac Behan - Technological University Dublin
- David Kendall - Penned Up Program.
Co-chairs
- Dr Anita Wilson - IOE
- Dr David Maguire - Prison Reform Trust's Building Futures project.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in criminology, sociology, psychology, prison management, prison education, criminal justice, law, crime, mental health and antisocial behaviour.
'Blue-Sky Thinking' Seminar Series on Education and Criminal Justice
This seminar is the first in this series.
The series aims to re-establish the Centre for Education and Criminal Justice as the knowledge exchange hub for practitioners, policymakers and researchers to collaborate on collecting, improving, and disseminating the best and most promising evidence and practice in the field and internationally. It gives researchers and practitioners a space to discuss the 'blue-sky thinking' in education and criminal justice that is much needed in the current system.
Other seminars in the series
- Crime prevention: Where do we start and end?
- Where next for Prison Education and Educators?
- Prison life and creative arts: What can they offer to enhance education?