PRISON EDUCATION: EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ON REHABILITATION
Abstract
Education, and specifically vocational education, has been seen as a means of rehabilitating prisoners by teaching them marketable skills. This follow-up study of ex-prisoners who had completed vocational programmes while incarcerated indicates that those aspects of the programmes that had the most impact on rehabilitation were not necessarily the specific knowledge and skills acquired, but rather those dimensions of the educational process that emphasized human development. RÈSUMÈ L'enseignement et plus particulièrement l'enseignement professionnel est considéré par certains comme un moyen de rééduquer les détenus en leur inculquant des compétences "commercialisables". Cette étude de suivi d'ex-détenus qui ont suivi des programmes d'enseignement professionnel alors qu'ils étaient en prison démontre que les éléments des programmes qui ont eu les conséquences les plus importantes sur la rééducation des détenus n'étaient pas forcément les connaissances et compétences acquises, mais plutôt les dimensions du processus éducatif qui font ressortir le développement de l'être humain.Downloads
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1986-09-01
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Boulianne, R. G., & Meunier, C. (1986). PRISON EDUCATION: EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ON REHABILITATION. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 21(003). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7679
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