Reading and writing in prison classrooms subverts inmates’ prescribed subjugated identity

Evidence

A pedagogical method as the one described above seems uniquely apt for the context of jails and prisons. Teaching in a correctional facility necessarily means entering into a dialogue with multiple perspectives, and while students in jails and prisons might be hesitant to overtly challenge hierarchical power structures—especially with a corrections officer in the classroom—the simple act of reading and writing in a college classroom subverts the prescriptive norms of these students as a mass of subjugated persons. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 427

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the claim that literacy alone (without overt challenge) subverts stacked against them? Worth interrogating whether covert-subversion claims romanticize pedagogy in carceral settings.
• XREF: connects to: Dialogical spaces let prisoners develop identity positions through ideological struggle — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 393; Freirean world-reading pedagogy becomes ethically fraught inside prisons — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 406; Dialogical spaces let incarcerated students reconstruct identity positions and worldviews — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 393 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Dialogical spaces let incarcerated students reconstruct identity positions and worldviews #corroborates (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 393
• Dialogue-based pedagogy faces near-impossible conditions inside jail and prison settings #qualifies (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 392
• Dialogical Self Theory lets incarcerated students engage critical pedagogy without invoking hegemonic power relations #corroborates (0.78) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 429
• Prisons function as schools of crime and organized delinquency #complicates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 405