Teaching in prison means teaching with the prison’s governing constraints

Evidence

The simple presence of teachers in a correctional facility can change the dynamic between people who are incarcerated and correctional officers as well as resonate beyond the classroom and into the cellblock, influencing the relationships between students and non-students. If we confront the fact that teaching in prison means teaching with the prison, it becomes clear that these governing constraints, while typically something we might address out loud and in the open in the context of school, have a palpable but silent influence on the prison-classroom. While critical pedagogies might seem like the most logical method for processing the realities of a prison-classroom, they may only exacerbate tensions. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 402

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s epigraph on ‘small acts of decorum toward corpses’ — constraint-awareness as framing. Also to Freire’s banking concept discussed at 407. — connects to: Critical pedagogy’s attentiveness to denied agency becomes absurd in prison — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 405; Dialogue-based pedagogy faces near-impossible conditions inside jail and prison settings — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 392; Freirean world-reading pedagogy becomes ethically fraught inside prisons — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 406 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dialogue-based pedagogy faces near-impossible conditions inside jail and prison settings #expands (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 392
• Critical pedagogy’s core demands are often impossible inside prisons, but dialogue survives. #qualifies (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 411
• Freirean world-reading pedagogy becomes ethically fraught inside prisons #exemplifies (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 406