All the Wiser: Dialogic Space, Destigmatization, and Teacher-Activist Recruitment

This article examines instructor training for The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program®, an organization that brings “outside” college students into prison, joining incarcerated men and women who become “inside students” for an undergraduate course. Ethnographic data revealed a purposeful stigma rever...

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Published in:The Prison journal (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pa.), 2013-06, Vol.93 (2), p.163-188
Main Authors: Conti, Norman, Morrison, Linda, Pantaleo, Katherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Careers
College Students
Ethics
Ethnography
Males
Morality
Prisons
Recruitment
Stigma
Teaching methods
Training
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Summary:This article examines instructor training for The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program®, an organization that brings “outside” college students into prison, joining incarcerated men and women who become “inside students” for an undergraduate course. Ethnographic data revealed a purposeful stigma reversal for a group of men serving life sentences and a concomitant shift in moral career for instructor trainees. Through structured encounters with these men, trainees come to see, speak, and behave in ways that subvert conventional understandings of the stigma imposed on those in prison. The alteration of self and perspective experienced during the training drives participants to incorporate this activist ethos into their own teaching.
ISSN:0032-8855
1552-7522
DOI:10.1177/0032885512472654