The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: Intersections between Feminism and Communication

Abstract

This paper explores the intersections between feminism and communication in an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program course that is cross-listed with Social Justice and Women’s and Gender Studies. The paper focuses on the alignment of the Inside-Out curriculum with feminist pedagogical principles and explores, through the structure and content of the course, the ways in which these feminist principles interconnect with communication concepts.

Jurastuderende bag tremmer

“…Det viste sig at vaere en stor succes, hvor alle studerende, både indefra og udefra, opnåede et stort fagligt og personligt udbytte af forløbet. Siden da har Pompa gentaget kursusforløbet adskillige gange, og programmet har bredt sig til stort set samtlige delstater i USA (Crabbe, 2013;Heider, 2018;Hilinski-Rosick & Blackmer, 2014;Norwood, 2020;Mishne et al, 2012;Pompa, 2013;Smoyer, 2019;Van Horne, 2015) samt internationalt til blandt andet Australien (Martinovic et al, 2018), Belgien (Champion, 2018), Canada (Pollack, 2016;Pollack & Eldridge, 2015), Danmark (Champion, 2018;Minke, 2017), England (King et al 2019;Zampini et al, 2019), Holland, Mexico (Durán & Strickland, 2018), Polen (Champion, 2018) og Tyskland. Anno 2022 har flere end 60.000 studerende deltaget (The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, u.å., a).…”

“…Langt flere studieretninger end jura kan dog involveres i et sådan samarbejder eksempelvis inden for socialt arbejde, sociologi, filosofi, psykologi, litteratur, journalistisk m.v. Desuden kan konceptet med fordel udbredes til at omfatter flere faengsler herunder for kvindelige indsatte (Heider, 2018;Pollack, 2016;Zampini et al, 2019) og varetaegtsarrestanter (Link, 2017;Collica-Cox, 2021). Den eneste begraensning for at udvikle og udvide sådanne samarbejder er ressourcemaessige hensyn, der dog ikke bør stå i vejen for at udbrede og udvikle uddannelsesrettede tiltag, hvor meget indikerer, at partnerskaber mellem faengsler og samfundets uddannelsesinstitutioner kan bidrage til på sigt at gøre vores samfund mere retfaerdige, humane, inkluderende og socialt baeredygtige.…”

Challenges of Co-Teaching: Reflections on Social Justice Pedagogy in Prison

“…Although co-teaching, potentially, is beneficial for teaching in prisons, there are few accounts of co-instructors using critical pedagogy in prisons. With some exceptions (e.g., Castro & Brawn, 2017), prison pedagogy studies have focused on educational programs, curricula, and/or students' experiences (e.g., Caulfield et al, 2016;Hartnett, 1998;Heider, 2018), rather than on instructors' experiences and/or positionalities. Furthermore, despite research on co-teaching students with disabilities, few studies have explored implications of critical co-teaching practices that advance social justice (for exceptions, see Cobb & Sharma, 2015;Sharma & Cobb, 2017).…”