Full Description
This important volume examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools and put into our prisons. Williamson and Appleman, along with a collection of scholars, teacher educators, K-12 teachers, administrators, and incarcerated students, offer their perspectives on how schooling can be restructured to disrupt this flow and dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. They present clearly articulated strategies on curriculum, pedagogy, and disciplinary practices that can help redirect our collective efforts away from carceral practices. By considering chapters from prison educators and currently incarcerated students (the end of the pipeline), readers will plainly see the disciplinary and curricular issues that need to be addressed in our schools. The text includes examples of meaningful ways to engage students that could be incorporated into a variety of classrooms, from social studies to science to English language arts.Book Features:
Instructive cautionary tales with specific pedagogical and policy suggestions.
Alternatives to discipline in schools, such as restorative justice and positive behavioral support.
Insights to help educators consider the trajectory of their students, as well as suggestions for making the curriculum both relevant and sustaining.
Directly addresses the ways in which an understanding of the mechanisms of the school-to-prison pipeline can be woven into teacher preparation.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword
Introduction Peter Williamson & Deborah Appleman
Part i: Disrupting Pushout
1. More Than a Pipeline: Growing Movements to Dismantle the Carceral State Tess Landon & Erica Meiners
2. Transformative Justice in Education: A Necessary Paradigm Shift in the United States Maisha T. Winn & Lawrence T. Winn
3. Critical Literacy and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Ernest Morrell & Jodene Morrell
4. Teacher Preparation and Disrupting School Pushout and Mass Incarceration Peter Williamson
Part ii: What Educators Can Do
5. Still I Rise: Student Voices in Juvenile Hall Meagan Mercurio & Constance Walker
6. Education Leadership With and for the Incarcerated Chris Lanier
7. Prison Pedagogy Deborah Appleman
Epilogue: This Is the End of the Pipeline, But It Isn't:
A View From the Inside Zeke Caliguiri
About the Contributors
Index
