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ERIC Number: EJ537452
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6291
Teaching in the Yard: Student Inmates and the Policy of Silence.
Laughlin, Thomas
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v23 n4 p284-90 Dec 1996
Discusses how teaching a writing-intensive introductory fiction course to prison inmates forced an instructor to "grapple" in the "contact zones" between prison culture and academic culture. Presents students' written responses, and discusses how racial tensions were addressed. (RS)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Introductory Courses, Postsecondary Education, Racial Relations, Reader Response, Teacher Student Relationship
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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