Please join us for this seminar on "Education in Prison", co-hosted and supported by the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, School of Law and Criminology and Department of Education, Maynooth University. Speakers are Jim King and Anne Costelloe, Kevin Warner, Anne Durst and Cormac Behan.
The seminar will take place in the MUSSI seminar room, Floor 2 of the Iontas Building on Friday April 4th 2025. Light refreshments at 12pm with seminar from 12:30-3pm.
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Introduction and Welcome: Professor Carl Anders Säfström, Director, Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University
Seminar Moderators: Professor Aislinn O’Donnell (School of Education, Maynooth University) and Dr Cormac Behan (School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University)
Education in prison has a long history but the ways in which education is understood, justified, and valued in prison contexts are highly variable. This seminar addresses the question of education in prison, reflecting on the kind of education that ought to be offered in prison, the values and principles that ought to underpin this, and its relation to education in wider society.
The seminar will bring together scholars and policymakers from the United States, Ireland and Scotland. The speakers will situate these debates in the wider policy landscapes, in particular the revisions of the Council of Europe (1990) document Education in Prison. With a wealth of knowledge from both practitioner and policy perspectives, this seminar will be of interest to professionals, academics and policymakers involved in Education and in Criminology. It will be an opportunity to learn from experiences in different jurisdictions, consider common concerns, and provide a space for a fruitful dialogue on charting a way forward for education in prison.
The seminar is kindly co-hosted by the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, School of Law and Criminology, and the Department of Education, Maynooth University