STEM Education in US Prisons

Edited by Joe Lockard and Tsafrir Mor

Renewal of higher-education programs in US prisons creates a need for science education. This is the first book to address STEM education in prisons in the United States. It calls on activist science teachers to develop innovative ways to teach in challenging carceral settings.

Over the last fifty years, science education and prison education have moved in different directions, one expanding and the other contracting. This book brings these educational endeavors into cooperative engagement. Democratic citizenship opens opportunities for all people, irrespective of civil status, to study science. The book presents student narratives and case studies emphasizing the achievements of STEM education behind prison walls. STEM education equity can help address the deep social inequities that mass incarceration creates and magnifies.

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Joe Lockard is an associate professor in the Department of English at ASU.

Tsafrir Mor is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU.

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Date published
Publisher
Brill
ISBN
978-9004688629
Genres
Education and teaching, Humanities, Literature, Nonfiction, Science
College or unit
Biodesign Institute, Department of English, School of Life Sciences, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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