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Into the Borderlands: Learning to Teach in Prisons and Alternative Settings
Edited by: Randall Wright, Ph.D.
$75 plus shipping and handling
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This wonderful new anthology features chapters written by Dr. Thom Gehring (“Push and Pull in Correctional Education”); “The First Two Years of Prison Work: A Personal Narrative” by Dr. Bill Muth formerly of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and current with Virginia Commonwealth University; Dr. Stephen Duguid of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and longtime member and contributor to the Correctional Education Association provided “The Professor in Prison: Reflections”; and the award-winning teacher and author, Pauline Geraci wrote, “Professional, Personal, and Organizational Identity in a Correctional Education Setting: Can We Be Ourselves?”. This book will be an interesting and enjoyable read and will be one that you will continue to read for years to come!

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Correctional Education Chronology
By: Thom Gehring, Ph.D. and Carolyn Eggleston, Ph.D.
$35 including shipping and handling

This is a documentary compendium of correctional education and prison reform history. It is not exhaustive, but it is reasonably comprehensive for the years 1787-1987. The Chronology makes an important contribution to the study of correctional education because teachers in juvenile institutions and adult prisons generally seem to suffer from a collective amnesia when it comes to understanding the social, historical, philosophical, and educational roots of their profession. The authors’ purpose is to help correctional and alternative educators comprehend where their field has been so they can better plan its future.

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Teaching Within Prison Walls: A Thematic History
By: Thom Gehring, Ph.D. and Carolyn Eggleston, Ph.D.
$45 plus shipping and handling

A companion book to the Correctional Education Chronology, this new publication summarizes the details in a direct, conversational tone. It focuses on North American correctional education during the 1787-1987 period but also presents information about important trends before and after that period, and in other parts of th world. The Teaching Within Prison Walls narrative is connected, not only to itself, but also to the unfolding human drama – to the work of such people as Albert Einstein, Clara Barton, and Frankly Delano Roosevelt; to prison management, prison reform, and social reform in general; to local schools, universities, labor unions, factories and libraries; to war, brutality, imperialism, genocide, racism, and sexism; to bureaucracy, courage, failure, and other high stakes, life and death concerns. In the center of all this drama, many correctional educators feel misunderstood by the people around them. They ask questions such as “What have you got for me?” and “Where can I learn more about the work I am doing daily ‘inside’?” The authors hope this volume will be useful to you as you consider these questions from an historical point of view.

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Handbook for Correctional Education Leaders
By: Thom Gehring, Ph.D.
$45 including shipping and handling

Correctional education is the teaching and learning of confined students, to interrupt asocial, nonsocial, or antisocial behaviors and replace them with social behaviors. Some very talented and inspiring men, women, and adolescents are incarcerated; often they are both inquisitive and crying out for help. In institutions, educational theories, programs, and goals are worthless if students are treated as less than human. To be successful in there conditions, correctional educators demonstrate passion for their work and focus on student attitudes, skills, and knowledge, in that priority – the reverse of traditional, local school priorities.

The Handbook for Correctional Education Leaders outlines characteristics that institutional educators should possess, and characteristics that correctional education systems should develop. In this context, leadership is defined in broad terms: in instruction, supervision, and administration. The book has six chapters, on (a) transforming institutional education programs into real schools, (b) propels writing to improve correctional education, (c) classroom supervision and the skills and characteristics of successful institutional teachers, (d) providing appropriate programs for students with disabilities, (e) recidivism, and (f) program evaluations. Most issues of correctional education leadership can be subsumed under these headings.

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Hope from the Inside
Edited by: Joe-Anne Corwin
$15 plus shipping & handling
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This anthology contains memoirs of correctional educators about their experiences working in correctional settings. Each story highlights why each of these professionals is committed to the work they do. Each one is entertaining, inspiring, and full of hope!

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The Power of Choice
By: Don Kiffin
$12 plus shipping and handling
Don Kiffin has created a wonderful inspirational cassette recording to motivate and change attitudes. Dr. Kiffin is a correctional educator with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is also a part-time judge. This recording will give you a new perspective!

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