Imprisoned Selves An Inquiry into Prisons and Academe

by Mullen, Carol A.

• ISBN13: 9780761805526
• ISBN10: 0761805524
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Imprisoned Selves calls for a new kind of vitality through re-education and alternative viewpoints of teacher education and research. It uses prison sites and various rehabilitative, schooling contexts as a place of inquiry into teacher and learned development. Methods of investigation used combine narrative with ethnography, and the result is an insider's personal account of an unfamiliar world. This inside-out approach to research uses prisons as an educational context and academe as a kind of correctional institution (with paradigms of correctionalism in operation). The author views teachers and teacher educators as inmates of correctional-educational systems who must strive to become writer-outlaws in order to transform paradigms of control. Through their own actions, inmates, whether in prisons or academe, can learn that storytelling is a source of human caring that connects unlikely worlds and persons. Many empowering opportunities are described that can arise among co-inquirers, even within the most restrictive circumstances.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	v	(2)
Prelude The Go-Girls's Escape from Academic Tradition	vii	(15)
Acknowledgments	xxii
Chapter 1 Introducing an Alternative Study of Research and Schooling	1	(22)
Chapter 2 Background and Context: Unlocking the Inquiry	23	(24)
Chapter 3 A Story of the Jail: Inside the Manila Prison	47	(78)
Chapter 4 Narrative Methdology: A Personal Account	125	(62)
Chapter 5 Significance and Implications: Outside the Manila Prison	187	(24)
Appendixes	211	(20)
Bibliography	231	(10)
Index	241
Author Biographical Sketch