Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy Of Transformation For Community-based Education (community Engagement In Higher Education)

Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and offers a model for courses, student life programs, and faculty training. The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program brings campus-enrolled and incarcerated students together as classmates in postsecondary courses built around dialogue, collaboration, and experiential learning. Contributors to this book consider the broader lessons that Inside-Out provides for community-based learning praxis, prison education and postsecondary teaching in general, both on campus and in community settings. An international network of practitioner-scholars probe the challenges and contradictions inherent in community-based work, but especially charged in the prison setting: the intersections of race, class and gender, and the tensions between teaching and activism, evaluation and advocacy, and compromise with and resistance to oppressive and dehumanizing systems. At a time when many in the Academy are seeking to deepen the impact of the community-based learning initiatives on their campuses, Turning Teaching Inside Out offers a model Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction—Radical Reciprocity: Civic Engagement from Inside Out....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Drawing Forth, Finding Voice, Making Change: Inside-Out Learning as Transformative Pedagogy....Pages 13-25 Inside-Out in Oregon: Transformative Education at the Community Level....Pages 27-34 Death of a Street-Gang Warrior....Pages 35-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Inside-Out: What the World Needs Now....Pages 49-62 Liberation from University Education: A Lesson in Humility for a Helper....Pages 63-69 The American Educational System: Abuses and Alternatives....Pages 71-77 Opened Arms, Eyes, and Minds....Pages 79-81 Full Circle: A Journey from Students to Trainers....Pages 83-91 Teaching Itself: A Philosophical Exploration of Inside-Out Pedagogy....Pages 93-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 From Safe Space to Brave Space: Strategies for the Anti-Oppression Classroom....Pages 105-112 Being Human....Pages 113-119 Breaking Through “Isms”....Pages 121-130 Trusting the Process: Growing and Liberating Self-Reflective Capacities Behind the Prison Walls....Pages 131-139 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Turned Inside-Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison after Levinas....Pages 143-153 Look at Me!....Pages 155-156 Access for Whom? Inside-Out’s Opening Door....Pages 157-162 Inside-Out: The Reach and Limits of a Prison Education Program....Pages 163-175 Transformative Learning in Prisons and Universities: Reflections on Homologies of Institutional Power....Pages 177-186 Access or Justice? Inside-Out and Transformative Education....Pages 187-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Alchemy and Inquiry: Reflections on an Inside-Out Research Roundtable....Pages 199-207 Relational Learning and the Inside-Out Experience: A Pathway to Building Capacities, Transformative Perspectives, and a Deeper Understanding of Self, Community, and Others....Pages 209-225 Evaluating the Impact of Community-based Learning: Participatory Action Research as a Model for Inside-Out....Pages 227-239 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Inside-Out as Law School Pedagogy....Pages 243-251 Teaching the Instructors....Pages 253-256 Beyond “Replication”: Inside-Out in Canada....Pages 257-265 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Preconceived Notions....Pages 269-270 Barriers Comin’ Down: An Inside-Out Rap....Pages 271-273 The Essence of Inside-Out....Pages 275-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-321 "The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program brings campus-enrolled and incarcerated students together as classmates in postsecondary courses built around dialogue, collaboration, and experiential learning. Contributors to this book consider the broader lessons that Inside-Out provides for community-based learning praxis, prison education and postsecondary teaching in general, both on campus and in community settings. An international network of practitioner-scholars probe the challenges and contradictions inherent in community-based work, but especially charged in the prison setting: the intersections of race, class and gender, and the tensions between teaching and activism, evaluation and advocacy, and compromise with and resistance to oppressive and dehumanizing systems. At a time when many in the Academy are seeking to deepen the impact of the community-based learning initiatives on their campuses, Turning Teaching Inside Out offers a model"--Provided by publisher