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Social Practices or Functional Skills? Rehabilitation or Rights? An Analysis of Scottish Prison Learning Contracts

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Galloway S (2019) Social Practices or Functional Skills? Rehabilitation or Rights? An Analysis of Scottish Prison Learning Contracts. Encyclopaideia, 23 (53), pp. 67-80. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/9350

Abstract
This paper critically examines some of the research arising from prison contexts internationally, questioning the notion that adult learning might serve the purpose of rehabilitation or encouraging desistance from crime. These discussions are utilised to inform a strategy for conducting a high-level documentary analysis of historical and current commercial contracts, held between colleges of further education and the Scottish Prison Service, for the delivery of prisoner education in Scotland. Here I suggest that leadership from the further education sector and the prison service in Scotland have made use of favourable national adult learning policies, co-creating commercial contracts that might take forward a social practice approach to prison learning. However, I also question the educational basis for both the commercial contracting of adult learning and the notion that adult learning should encourage desistance from criminality.

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Prison Education; Adult Education; Social Practice; Literacies Learning; Desistance; Marketisation

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Encyclopaideia: Volume 23, Issue 53

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2019
Publication date online08/05/2019
Date accepted by journal01/04/2018
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/29509
ISSN1590-492X
eISSN1825-8670

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Dr Sarah Galloway

Dr Sarah Galloway

Lecturer, Education

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