Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

by Deborah Appleman
Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

by Deborah Appleman

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Overview

Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars.

Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing 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 Appleman’s 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 nation’s 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 traveled it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393713688
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 06/18/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell professor of educational studies and director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College. Professor Appleman’s 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 ClubsTeaching Literature to Adolescents, Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to AdolescentsBraided 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Education: Life or Death

1. A Tough Sell: Education and Incarceration

2. The Geography of Incarceration: The Glass Bubble in the Big House

3. Of Freire and Frost: Reading the World Behind Bars

4. "No Hugs for Thugs": Surveillance and Control

5. "I Write Myself Out of Prison": Rewriting the Self

6. Writing in the Dark: Profiles of Incarcerated Learners

7. "What If I Had Started to Write in High School?": Interrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

8. "Songs from the Genius Child": Words No Bars Can Hold

Epilogue: Thoughts Beyond the Bars: The Dark and the Light

References

Selections of Writing by Incarcerated Writers

Index

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