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Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

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By (author): Deborah Appleman

Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanising conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college-level classes at a high-security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir and fiction, the students in Applemans classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories.

The students work, through which they probe and develop their identities as readers and writers, illuminates the transformative power of literacy. Appleman argues for the importance of educating the incarcerated and explores ways to interrupt the increasingly common journey from urban schools to our nations prisons. From the sobering endpoint of what scholars have called the school to prison pipeline, she draws insight from the narratives and experiences of those who have travelled it.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 434g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393713671

About Deborah Appleman

Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell professor of educational studies and director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College. Professor Applemans recent research has focused on teaching college-level language and literature courses at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for inmates who are interested in pursuing post-secondary education. She is also the author of Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs Teaching Literature to Adolescents Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading and Reading Better Reading Smarter: Designing Literature lessons for Adolescents co-authored with Michael Graves.

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