Prison History for New Learners Inside and Outside the Prison

监狱内外新学员的监狱历史

• 批准号: AH/S012834/1
• 负责人: Rosalind Crone
• 金额: $ 9.22万
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS012834%2F1
• 关键词: Prison; History; New; Learners; Inside

Higher education is transformative for prisoners. Research conducted by the Ministry of Justice has shown that prisoners funded by Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) to participate in higher education are, a year after release, 25% less likely to reoffend (September 2015) and 26% more likely to be in employment (July 2018). Recent years have also witnessed new developments in the provision of education at all levels to those behind bars. Over the last four years, Prison-University-Partnerships (PUPs), arrangements made between governors and university academics to run courses for prisoners alongside university students have proliferated. The 2016 Coates Review of Prison Education declared that 'education should be at the heart of the prison system'. Through the new Prison Education Framework (PEF), a product of the Coates Review, from April 2019 prison governors will have the freedom to commission courses from educational providers which they believe best meet the needs of their prisoners.However, these developments are accompanied by new challenges. Courses offered through PUPs foster a taste for learning, but are hampered by problems of progression. Few award credit to prisoners for their learning. With the exception of one, none offer enrolment on degree programmes to serving prisoners. Because PUPs rely on the initiative of individual academics often with existing relationships with prisons, typically just one or two courses are offered to prisoners, nearly always in the discipline of criminology and social policy. An alternative, longstanding pathway for prisoners into higher education exists through the Open University (OU), but current higher-education funding arrangements in England, which preclude the use of loans for access courses, do not facilitate exploratory steps into higher-level learning for prisoner learners.This project, which builds upon an existing relationship between the PI and PET established as part of the AHRC-funded project, 'Educating Criminals in 19th Century England', will explore new models of cooperation between higher education providers to better serve the needs of prison learners. Specifically, with the assistance of former and serving prisoners, we will develop a new open educational resource (OER) on the history of prison education in the British Isles. The OER will be designed for and, through PET's Prison-University-Partnerships in Learning network (PUPiL), be promoted to those academics with PUPs to support the courses they deliver in prisons. Inclusion of the OER in the OU's level one module, 'Make Your Learning Count', will demonstrate how links can be made between PUP and OU courses to ensure that prisoners gain credit for their learning through a route which is coherent and supportive of progression.Furthermore, with accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Continuing Professional Development, and through existing networks cultivated by PET, the PI and the OU, the OER will be promoted to prison governors and education officers as a valuable tool for staff development in the context of their new responsibilities under PEF, as well as to staff in prison reform charities, and those in probation and aftercare services. As PET and the OU remain the leading UK institutions for the promotion and delivery of higher education in UK prisons, their coincidental, milestone anniversaries in 2019 will be used to promote the OER to the wider public.

高等教育对囚犯来说是一种变革。司法部进行的研究表明，囚犯教育信托基金（PET）资助的囚犯参加高等教育，在释放一年后，重新犯罪的可能性降低了25%（2015年9月），就业的可能性增加了26%（2018年7月）。近年来，在为在押人员提供各级教育方面也有了新的发展。在过去四年中，监狱-大学-伙伴关系，即州长和大学学者之间为囚犯与大学生一起开设课程的安排，激增。2016年科茨监狱教育审查报告宣称，“教育应该是监狱系统的核心”。根据科茨评估的新成果--监狱教育框架（PEF），从2019年4月起，监狱长可以自由委托他们认为最能满足囚犯需求的教育机构提供课程。然而，这些发展也伴随着新的挑战。通过PUP提供的课程培养了学习的兴趣，但受到进展问题的阻碍。很少有人会因为囚犯的学习而表扬他们。除一个国家外，没有一个国家为服刑囚犯提供学位课程。由于PUP依赖于通常与监狱有现有关系的个别学者的主动性，通常只向囚犯提供一两门课程，几乎总是在犯罪学和社会政策学科中。囚犯通过开放大学接受高等教育的另一种长期途径，但英格兰目前的高等教育供资安排不允许使用入学课程的贷款，不利于囚犯学习者探索性地进入高等教育。“世纪英格兰罪犯教育”将探索高等教育提供者之间合作的新模式，以更好地满足监狱学习者的需求。具体而言，在前囚犯和服刑囚犯的协助下，我们将开发一个关于不列颠群岛监狱教育历史的新的开放式教育资源（OER）。OER将通过PET的监狱-大学-学习伙伴关系网络（PUPiL）设计并推广到那些拥有PUPs的学者，以支持他们在监狱中提供的课程。将OER纳入监狱管理局的第一级单元“让你的学习有价值”，将展示如何将PUP和监狱管理局的课程联系起来，以确保囚犯通过连贯和支持进步的途径获得学习学分，此外，通过特许专业持续发展学院的认证，并通过PET，PI和监狱管理局建立的现有网络，将向监狱长和教育官员推广开放式教育报告，将其作为一个宝贵的工具，在监狱教育基金规定的新职责范围内促进工作人员的发展，并推广给监狱改革慈善机构的工作人员以及缓刑和善后服务人员。由于PET和OER仍然是英国监狱促进和提供高等教育的领先英国机构，他们在2019年的巧合，里程碑式的周年纪念将被用来向更广泛的公众推广OER。