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Direct linkPhatininnart, Chuleeporn – Convergence, 2009
The making of changes inside prisons necessarily implies education. In Thailand, the point is not only to organise professional training courses but also to make detainees aware of the fact that they belong to a community of values. Non-formal education allows the necessary flexibility to an individual approach of training that must take into…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Professional Training, Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education
Shinji, Tajima – Convergence, 2009
In Pakistan, there are 7,000 children in 70 jails. From observations on why children commit crime, the author offers that the core cause is poverty; 99 per cent of young prisoners belong to deprived sections of society. They do not have access to education; living in prison is difficult; the degrading and harsh treatment adversely affects the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Correctional Institutions, Libraries, Foreign Countries
de Sa e Silva, Fabio – Convergence, 2009
This article examines the development and the legacy of a policy making experience that was undertaken in Brazil from 2004 to 2006, under a project labelled "Educating for Freedom". The project sought to provide prison inmates with access to education. It was carried out by a coalition that comprised the Ministry of Education, the…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
de Koning, Mireille; Striedinger, Angelika – Convergence, 2009
In early 2009, Education International conducted a study amongst its member organisations on education in correctional settings in their respective countries. Findings reveal that education in correctional settings and the conditions of teachers working in them vary greatly between regions. Generally speaking, in most regions, but specifically in…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Correctional Rehabilitation
Peer reviewedDuguid, Stephen – Convergence, 1993
Documents the demise of the 20-year university education program in British Columbia prisons as a new national strategy stressed correctional goals and behavior change over the humanities/moral development thrust of the Simon Fraser University curriculum. (SK)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSemmens, Robert – Convergence, 1993
Outlines general issues for Australian prison education and training, issues by specific populations (unemployed, recividists, aboriginal people, women), and issues by individual state and territory. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedMolero, Carmen; And Others – Convergence, 1993
In the Spanish penal system, the Humanities Curriculum is intended to rehabilitate inmates by teaching them the value of human dignity, communication, critical reasoning, and cultural heritage. (SK)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries
