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Book SynopsisThe first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received, offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of education in prison.
Trade Review'This important book documents the vital work done by the Open University in the development of prison education and provides valuable insights into the positive impact of this work upon individual prisoners.' Ivana Bacik, Trinity College Dublin
Table of ContentsOpenings and Introductions: Education for the many, prison for the few ~ Rod Earle and James Mehigan From Prisoner to Student ~ Anne Pike and Ruth McFarlane Vignette 1: Choosing my journey – Kamal Abdul Pioneers and Politics: Open University Journeys in British and Irish prisons in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972-1975 ~ Philip O’Sullivan & Gabi Kent Vignette 2: Avoiding the mind-numbing vortex of drivel … – Thomas A University Without Walls ~ Dan Weinbren Vignette 3: Starting a new chapter – Mr C.T. Morgans Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future ~ Rod Earle & James Mehigan Vignette 4: Out of the abysmal – ‘Eris’ The Light to Fight The Shadows: On Education as Liberation ~ Kris McPherson From Despair to Hope ~ Margaret Gough Vignette 5: Making my commitment – Razib Quraishi Straight up! From HMP to PhD ~ Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski From Open University in Prison to Convict Criminology Upon Release: Mind the Gap ~ Michael Irwin Vignette 6: Message to a prisoner – Gordon McDonald From the School of Hard Knocks to the University of Hard Locks ~ Abdulhaq Al-Wazeer Becoming Me with The Open University ~ Edwin Screeche-Powell Vignette 7: Catching up with Kafka – Steven Taylor From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish Journey ~ Laurence McKeown Vignette 8: My journey, my new life – Dan Micklethwaite Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education ~ David Honeywell Vignette 9: Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea? – Alan Jermey What the OU did for me ~ Erwin James Appendix 1: Study with the OU
