Imprisoned Selves An Inquiry into Prisons and Academe

by Mullen, Carol A.

• ISBN13: 9780761805533
• ISBN10: 0761805532
• Format: Paperback
• 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
Prelude: The Go-Girl's Escape from Academic Tradition
Acknowledgments
Introducing an Alternative Study of Research and Schooling	p. 1
Background and Context: Unlocking the Inquiry	p. 23
A Story of the Jail: Inside the Manila Prison	p. 47
Narrative Methodology: A Personal Account	p. 125
Significance and Implications: Outside the Manila Prison	p. 187
Appendixes	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 241
Author Biographical Sketch
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