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Incarcerated Fathers’ Experiences In The Read To Your Child/Grandchild Program: Supporting Children’S Literacy, Learning, And Education, Esther Prins, Tabitha Stickel, Anna Kaiper-Marquez
Incarcerated Fathers’ Experiences In The Read To Your Child/Grandchild Program: Supporting Children’S Literacy, Learning, And Education, Esther Prins, Tabitha Stickel, Anna Kaiper-Marquez
Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)
In response to rising parental incarceration, some correctional facilities and outside organizations offer family literacy programs for parents in prison. However, research on these correctional education initiatives is scant. This paper uses qualitative data to analyze how 11 fathers in a rural Pennsylvania prison were involved in their children’s literacy, learning, and education before and during incarceration and through the Read to Your Child/Grandchild (RYCG) program. Before RYCG, most fathers had taken steps such as reading to children, teaching reading and math, attending parent-teacher conferences, helping with homework, and singing and rhyming—and then sought to continue supporting their children’s learning …
Book Review-- Prison Pedagogies: Learning And Teaching With Imprisoned Writers, June Edwards
Book Review-- Prison Pedagogies: Learning And Teaching With Imprisoned Writers, June Edwards
Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)
Prison Pedagogies, Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers
Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Roberson
Syracuse University Press, New York, 2018
ISBN 9780815654285
Reviewed by JUNE EDWARDS
Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Ireland