Dan Weinbren provides an authoritative historical account of the development of prisoner education at The Open University. Drawing on internal archives and wider historical contexts, Weinbren presents the complex narratives that shape our understandings of higher education and The OU’s efforts to fulfil its mission statement to be ‘open to people, ideas, methods and places’.
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Anyone familiar with prisons in the UK will have heard of Erwin James. No one writes about imprisonment as he does. Now an accomplished author and journalist, he provides an account of the role education in his life; first its premature closure through neglectful teachers and abusive family circumstances, then a surprise reopening and rediscovery of latent talent in a prison setting. The Open University, books, wide reading, some supportive teachers and a long prison sentence provide Erwin with hope for another life, a life outside. This moving and beautifully written chapter is proof of its realisation.
{"title":"What the OU did for me","authors":"E. James","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.27","url":null,"abstract":"Anyone familiar with prisons in the UK will have heard of Erwin James. No one writes about imprisonment as he does. Now an accomplished author and journalist, he provides an account of the role education in his life; first its premature closure through neglectful teachers and abusive family circumstances, then a surprise reopening and rediscovery of latent talent in a prison setting. The Open University, books, wide reading, some supportive teachers and a long prison sentence provide Erwin with hope for another life, a life outside. This moving and beautifully written chapter is proof of its realisation.","PeriodicalId":116706,"journal":{"name":"Degrees of Freedom","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130663252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This lyrical and compelling account of a personal transformation by Abdulhaq Al-Wazeer makes connections between his scholarship and his faith. Finding strength and resolve in learning with The Open University propelled Abdulhaq into a commitment to learning Arabic, memorising the Qur’an and the complete transformation of his self-belief and self-understanding. Politics, Philosophy and Economics is the name of his degree, but his rediscovery of his own life in learning is guided by a profound appreciation of the many people who helped him.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-18DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0010
Kris MacPherson
Kris McPherson writes of his experience of imprisonment in Scotland, his life in crime and his struggle to leave both behind him. Assembling powerful arguments from his prison life and his studies with The Open University, McPherson provides compelling insights into what criminologists have started to call ‘desistance’. McPherson’s unique synthesis of scholarship and penal experience is an outstanding example of “making good with criminology”. It offers personal tribute and testimony to the influence of Scottish criminologist Fergus McNeill and his colleagues.
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{"title":"Message to a prisoner","authors":"Gordon McDonald","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116706,"journal":{"name":"Degrees of Freedom","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125312483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A long prison sentence leads Michael Irwin to a revelation that his experiences of studying criminology with The Open University and discovering classic prison research studies might offer him a new path. Convict criminology combines personal experience of imprisonment with conventional ‘book learning’ about prison. Irwin tells of his struggle to combine the two and contribute to the emerging work of British Convict Criminology.
{"title":"From Open University in prison to convict criminology upon release: mind the gap","authors":"Michael Irwin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rk4f.18","url":null,"abstract":"A long prison sentence leads Michael Irwin to a revelation that his experiences of studying criminology with The Open University and discovering classic prison research studies might offer him a new path. Convict criminology combines personal experience of imprisonment with conventional ‘book learning’ about prison. Irwin tells of his struggle to combine the two and contribute to the emerging work of British Convict Criminology.","PeriodicalId":116706,"journal":{"name":"Degrees of Freedom","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121289451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-18DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0007
Mr C.T. Morgans
I am 71 years of age and I was convicted in 2009. I find very little for me in the day-to-day life of an inmate but I have always had an interest in the world about me and I discovered the OU prospectus in the library. It seemed to be a Godsend, both a means of keeping busy and as a way of gaining some sort of higher education that I missed out on before. The process of enrolling was somewhat fraught in that the education department of the prison I was in had personnel that had no interest in higher learning. The whole remit was to cater for people to come up to 11+ standards, not that they had any interest in helping those who could not read at all....
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Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski describes his journey from growing up in poverty on a council estate in London, dropping out of school to deal drugs and ending up in prison. In prison The Open University module ‘An Introduction to Social Science’ marks the beginning of another journey, out of prison and into Higher Education. It culminates in his enrolment for a PhD with The Open University and employment offering support and encouragement to prison learners. An unfinished lifelong journey that pays tribute to his determination and persistence.
Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski描述了他的经历，从在伦敦一个贫穷的地方长大，到辍学贩毒，最后入狱。在监狱开放大学的“社会科学导论”模块标志着另一段旅程的开始，离开监狱，进入高等教育。最终，他获得了开放大学的博士学位，并为监狱学习者提供了支持和鼓励。这是一段未完成的人生旅程，向他的决心和坚持致敬。
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Pub Date : 2019-12-18DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0015
Gordon McDonald
Oh, there you are. I was wondering when you would turn to this page. The fact that you have read this far would suggest that you are, at the very least, interested in doing something constructive with your time while in prison. To be honest, and how many of us have been in the past, this is the sole reason that I looked at the possibilities of studying with The Open University (OU) back in 2014. I left school with a few qualifications, worked in various jobs, then everything went wrong and I found myself looking at a lengthy prison sentence. But enough of that!...
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