Beyond progress in the prison classroom options and opportunities / Anna Plemons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plemons, Anna, 1977- author.

Series:

Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), [2022]

Summary:

Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms. When viewed as a microcosm of the broader enterprise, the prison classroom highlights the way that composition and rhetoric as a discipline continues to make use of colonial ways of knowing and being that work against the decolonial intentions of the field. Plemons suggests that a truly decolonial turn in composition cannot be achieved as long as economic logics and rhetorics of individual transformation continue to be the default currency for ascribing value in prison writing programs specifically and in out-of-school writing communities more generally. Indigenous scholarship provides the theoretical basis for Plemons's proposed intervention in the ways it both pushes back against individualized, economic assessments of value and describes design principles for research and pedagogy that are respectful, reciprocal, and relational. Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom includes narrative selections from the author and current and former AIC participants, inviting readers into the lives of incarcerated authors and demonstrating the effects of relationality on prison-scholars, ultimately upending the misconception that these writers and their teachers exist apart from the web of relations beyond the prison walls. With contributions from incarcerated prison-scholars Ken Blackburn, Bryson L. Cole, Harry B. Grant Jr., Adam Hinds, Hung-Linh "Ronnie" Hoang, Andrew Molino, Michael L. Owens, Wayne Vaka, and Martin Williams. About the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series In this series, the methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition-including rhetoric, communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse-ranging from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Writers and Teachers, Part 1

Eulogy 2," by Martin Williams

All I Can Do Is Words," by Bryson L. Cole

Showing Up," by Anna Plemons

1. Getting Inside: Measuring Something Other Than Progress

Writers and Teachers, Part 2

Why I Write," by Harry B. Grant Jr.

The Circle," by Wayne Vaka

Ceremony," by Anna Plemons

2. The Process of Re-Membering: The Case for Relationality as Decolonial Practice

Writers and Teachers, Part 3

1st Yard," by Adam Hinds

Guntower Homily," by Michael L. Owens

'Year of Jubilee," by Anna Plemons

3. Toward Relational Methodologies: Learning from the Work of Indigenous Scholars

Writers and Teachers, Part 4

Tommy," by Adam Hinds

The Fist Pump," by Hung-Linh "Ronnie" Hoang

Getting Healthy," by Anna Plemons

4. Opportunities and Options: Relationality at New Folsom

Writers and Teachers, Part 5

Family," by Andrew Molino

Sing Me a Song," by Ken Blackburn

'The Tier Tender," by Anna Plemons

Afterword: Ethics and Implications: A Discussion with an Author, an Editor, and an Indigenous Scholar

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814100295

0814100295

OCLC:

1349280257