This topic was also discussed at the 14th annual Liam Minihan lecture, hosted by Irish Prison Education Association (IPEA), Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin, 19 May 2016
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Prison Education and Penal Reform
This topic was also discussed at the 14th annual Liam Minihan lecture, hosted by Irish Prison Education Association (IPEA), Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin, 19 May 2016
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National conference on prison education, Solstrand Fjordhotell, Os, Norway, September 2011.
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PRISONERS EDUCATION TRUST SYMPOSIUM,
Centre for Criminology, Oxford, 16 September 2014
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London Review of Education
Volume 12, Number 2, July 2014
Anne Costelloe and Kevin Warner
The nature of the education offered in prisons varies greatly. Provision can be focused narrowly on limited objectives, such as training for employment or seeking to ‘address offending behaviour’. On the other hand, where prison education follows the policies of the Council of Europe or the European Union, which are drawn from the traditions of adult education and life-long learning, it becomes a more comprehensive and transformative experience for men and women held in prison. Underpinning these different approaches are two very different perceptions of those held in prison: one sees merely ‘an offender’, while the other recognizes ‘the whole person’ and his or her membership of society. Where narrow and negative concepts of the men and women held in prison prevail, one tends to find severe limitations on the quality and quantity of the education offered. Four such ‘curtailments’ are discussed.
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Keynote talk to 14th EPEA Conference, Iceland 5th to 8th June 2013
One could say the EPEA was conceived in Oxford in 1989, the initiative in the first place of an English prison teacher, Pam Bedford (now Pam Radcliffe). It then had a rather long gestation. An ad hoc Committee was formed two years later, in Bergen in The Netherlands, but we cannot really say an organisation was properly born until Sigtuna, in Sweden, in 1993. In Sigtuna, there were two developments that made clear the EPEA was launched as a proper organisation: the EPEA constitution was adopted, and the first EPEA tee-shirts appeared (produced, as far as I remember, in Norwegian prisons).
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County Governor of Hordland seminar to mark the retirement of Torfinn Langelid, Bergen, 7th December 2011: ‘The Right to Education behind bars’
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Journal of Correctional Education, Volume 53, Issue 1, March 2002
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Journal of Correctional Education, Volume 49, Issue 3
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